When the Republican leadership caved on funding the government, th
ey told us the real fight would be on the debt ceiling. They caved on it without any fight at all. Republicans need new leaders.
“We go right to the debt-ceiling fight, and that’s where the real
battle is, we feel,” said Representative John Fleming. “It’s kind of
like the follow-up plan, assuming that [the CR] fails. . . . The real
fight will be on the debt ceiling.”
House budget chairman Paul
Ryan also urged colleagues to wage the more serious fight over the debt
ceiling. “We have to stay on the right side of public opinion,” he told
his colleagues. “Shutting down the government puts us on the wrong side.
The fight is on the debt limit.”
In exchange for a debt-ceiling
increase, Cantor told colleagues, the GOP will issue a litany of
demands, including a one-year delay of Obamacare, construction of the
Keystone pipeline, an anti-regulatory bill called the REINS Act, and
other spending reforms. The exact combination will be negotiated with
President Obama and Reid.
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