Just a Debt Ceiling Question or Two

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Townhall/Tipsheet:

Carol Platt Liebau
7/28/11

For any conservative, the options surrounding the debt ceiling vote are not wonderful. But here are a few questions that I wish those who are militantly in the "NO!" camp about the Boehner plan would answer -- seriously.

1. Can they sketch out a "path to victory" for legislation that achieves the larger level of cuts they're insisting on? That is, a way that the Democrat-controlled Senate will pass it and the President will sign it?

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Let's hope that the conservative principles that we all cherish are not going to be the reason that the GOP ends up snatching defeat from the jaws of victory -- and we end up with a tax-raising Democrat bill with a few Republicans signing on, rather than forcing the President, and some Democrats, to sign a bill that is good-enough-for-now given the political reality that the GOP doesn't control any body except the House.