The Tea Party is ready to dance all night. House Speaker John Boehner better keep up if he wants to stay in the dance for much longer, or the Tea Party Caucus might motion him to have a seat and let someone else lead the rest of the Republican delegation in the House of Representatives.
The 70+ Freshman know where their allegiance lies: cut spending, cut spending, cut spending. One other goal: cut the nation's credit card, especially in the hands of President Obama and the Washington elites who follow him, Democrat or Republican.
Mr. Boehner, what a toss-up for you. Make some effort to raise the debt ceiling, or risk becoming the sore loser that let the country lapse into default. Yet would it be your fault? You called the President's bluff. Now let him walk off the cliff. Whether bond ratings plummet along with Obama's approval ratings is not your concern. You and your caucus have done what you could. As New Jersey Governor Chris Christie remarked earlier, if the debt ceiling is not raised in a timely fashion, it will be a failure of leadership, specifically from President Obama.
Why not just undo the whole debt ceiling concept for good? It serves no other purpose but to convey to superficial voters that the national government seriously has no interest in spending beyond its means.
Balanced Budget Amendments notwithstanding, when will legislators ever learn. . . someone out there is watching how the money is spent. Where they have followed the money has scandalized this country once and for all. The voters in this nation will no longer sit back and watch politicians pilfer away our future.
In the past superficial and apathetic, the current electorate in the United States is electrified and unified. Stop the spending, stop the spending, stop the spending!
The Tea Party caucus has listened, they are engaged, now the leadership and the opposing party better follow along, or misstep and fall out.