Rep. Elijah Cummings:Obama Should Ask For A Clean Bill To Raise The Debt Ceiling

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As House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) struggles to get his caucus’ collective “ass in line” for today’s vote on his re-worked debt ceiling plan, a growing number of House Democrats are pushing for a vote on a clean debt ceiling increase. Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) and the Congressional Black Caucus — save Rep. Allen West (R-FL) — were rounding up support for a plan that, absent a debt deal that can pass in both chambers, will just raise the debt ceiling to prevent default this coming Tuesday.

On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) predicted that this is the exact scenario Congress will face. “I think we’re going to end up in a stalemate,” said Cummings:

CUMMINGS: I think we’re at a point where the Republicans have pushed and pushed, haven’t given much at all, and now I think we’re going to end up in a stalemate. I anticipate that the Boehner bill will get through the House today after he’s pushed his folks kind of hard and then it’ll be dead on arrival once it get’s to the Senate, then the Senate will send something over.

And then I think the president is going to have to step in. Then he’s going to have to say ‘Look guys, there doesn’t seem to be an agreement here. And so basically let’s send this clean extension.’ By the way, which is what just about every member of the Democrats on the House side are petitioning for. And I think we’ll resolve this matter. And that’s the way it should’ve been. I still think this whole thing has been manufactured.

Watch it:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/07/28/281829/cummings-clean-debt-ceiling-vote/

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1. start a filibuster now so that they have to do that.

Obama has to learn to stop making these deals.

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2. Huh?

Who should start a filibuster? And to force who to do what?

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3. They'll need 25 repugs from the House. That's all. n/t