I had to crack up when I read her post today. She writes that, if Boehner is successful in getting his debt ceiling bill passed in the House, "President Obama, after decrying the plan, will almost certainly have to sign it."
Uh, no he most certainly doesn't.
It has leaked out that Standard and Poors will downgrade the US' rating if the Boehner plan becomes law. And the President is getting into the ear of the ratings agencies to sell them on the Reid plan. Boehner and the Republicans can most certainly try to change the minds of the ratings agencies, but the problem of the Boehner plan is that it forces Congress to relive this debt ceiling nightmare TWICE in the next 16 months -- that's not going to fly.
No Ms. Rubin, it's the other way around: Democrats will force Senate Republicans to sign onto their bill, and Boehner will have to fall on his own sword to get just enough Republicans to pass Reid's bill. If not, if Republicans fail to embrace Reid's bill, Republicans will most certainly be wiped out in 2012 as the nation falls into a sudden, quick economic slump and markets crash, even if they come to their senses and agree after the deadline, to pass the Reid bill.
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