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If risk of default is so great, why is Senate skipping town*?

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Wonder if the media will call Harry Reid’s bluff?  Ed Morrissey asks us to

. . . remember when Reid insisted on Wednesday that it was just terrible for the House to take the weekend off in the middle of the crisis, just in case the Senate needed them to act on a proposal from the upper chamber?  Now, apparently, it’s Miller Time, according to Politico’s Manu Raju:

Senators catching flights home now – weekend votes ain’t gonna happen, we’re told

The House has at least proposed two different plans to deal with the debt crisis.  The Senate has yet to come up with any plan.  Neither has the White House, despite the hysteria over the August 2nd deadline.  So why are Senators streaming out of Washington DC, Senator Reid?  And doesn’t that make this earlier whining a little more hypocritical?

*Without having passed a budget in 814 days — or a plan to address the debt ceiling.

UPDATE:  I expect California’s junior Senator to call her party leader to task for not scheduling weekend votes.  After all, Mrs. Boxer quoted Ronald Reagan to warn of the risks of default:

The full consequences of a default,’ he said, ‘or even the serious prospect of a default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The nation can ill afford to allow such a result.

So, Ma’am, we agree; Harry Reid should call the Senate back into session and put forward a plan to raise the debt limit and control spending?

Comments

  1. It’s my opinion that this president just told a pack of baldfaced lies and the press let him get away with it just as they have let the democrats get away with it all week.

  2. Watched our boy president as well….
    he looked like he was gonna cry most of the time.
    he looked incapable of doing this job. His way or the highway. Couldn’t agree to 600 billion in cuts over 10 years, when his government is bleeding red ink at 1.5 Trillion dollars A YEAR!!!
    He’s a doop. He’s goofey, he should quit and let some adult do the job. WHHHHAAAA cry baby.

  3. They won’t go back to warshinton for a vote. Instead they will start a vicious campaign smearing republicans and scaring people who depend on a government check.

  5. I think it’s all theater, the main actors are the two cry babies, Boehner and Obama. Boehner said earlier he was going to raise the debt ceiling, the establishment wants BIG GOVERNMENT! Obviously Washington doesn’t give a crap what we think, they care about the money and power. With all that they have done it’s like the enemy is in the WH!! The next election will be the battle of the establishment against the people.

  6. Hmm, may I remind Sen. Ma’am Boxer that when President Reagan made that speech, guess what party controlled the House? And, I may be wrong, but was she NOT a member of the House when President Reagan made those remarks? I love how these hacks LOVE President Reagan now, but made his political life a living hell. And he did not have any conservative media to speak of. Save for National Review and some local talk-radio hosts. I would like the whole speech in context that President Reagan made the remarks.