Reply #1: I get that Boehner wants to hold America hostage again, but I don’t think the public will stand for

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2) The timing. This is really the main point of contention, and while it’s mostly a process issue, it does have some importance. In Boehner’s plan, the debt limit gets increased in two stages; in Reid’s plan, it increases all at once. Boehner’s second tranche of the debt limit increase is tied to the results of his version of the Catfood Commission; Reid’s is not. That actually has some implications for the Catfood Commission itself. It’s obviously easier to vote down the commission’s recommendations if the full faith and credit of the US government is not on the line.

However, if that’s all we’re talking about here, it just doesn’t seem like that is tenable to hold up an increase in the debt limit and the avoidance of default. I get that Boehner wants to hold America hostage again, but I don’t think the public will stand for it.http://news.firedoglake.com/