mitch mcconnell say that he is willing to give the president everything, everything that the president wants, but not yet exactly in the form that the president wants. the mcconnell plan for raising the debt ceiling would occur in three stages over the period of many months, including a final third vote next year, in the election year, which the president does not want. he wants to avoid votes on this thing in election year. congress could actually try it will fail but try to claim it wasn t actually voting for a increase in the debt ceiling at all. the tricky mcconnell plan would ask congress to vote on a resolution disapproving first, a $700 billion increase in the debt ceiling, and then two other $900 billion increases in the debt ceiling. mcconnell expects that a majority in congress would cast that easy vote to disapprove those resolutions calling for raises in the debt ceiling.
never agree to the white house tax revenue proposals and in a world where nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to, the white house knew nothing was going to be agreed to. in a world where nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to, the white house actually has agreed to nothing, not one penny of spending cuts, not one. still, the white house is clever enough to leak that the notion, the notion that it was willing to entertain spending cuts, that president obama was willing to bend over backwards in the republican direction and think about spending cuts in medicare, in social security, those ideas horrified some democrats in congress and many obama supporters in the blogosphere, but just today, mitch mcconnell has finally begun to catch up with the president s superior strategic maneuvering.