Dumb question: are there not 25 repukes in the House who will vote yea on a 1-page debt ceiling

[yodermon]

increase? at the 11th hour?
I'm talking about paleoconservative non-teabagger types.

[KeepItReal]

1. Someone has to get it out of committee and on the floor first

Otherwise that is an excellent question

[yodermon]

2. How about as a privileged resolution? can't a single member introduce one of those? n/t

[AlinPA]

3. Yes. But it is hard to believe there are 25 republicans in the House who would vote for a clean bill

to raise the debt limit. The GOP have gone crazy with the teabaggers calling the shots.

[brooklynite]

4. You have to be 1) sane and 2) prepared to be primaried out of office...

Aside from that, there might be a couple available.

[Liberalynn]

5. I was wondering that myself

If in the end the TP's don't give in, will more traditional Pukes, jump ship and vote with the Dems on a clean bill with an "agreement" to take the "reducing the deficit" issue up later? That's the sensible thing to do.

Couldn't the traditional PUKES then argue to their base that they tried to pass cut, cap, balance, and an austerity bill but those damn Senate Dems stood in their way, and in the end they had to save the country. gag.

The problem with this though is what has all ready been said here. I don't think any of the RePUKES have any sense, and hell will freeze over first before they do the best and only sane thing for this country.

[jmowreader]

6. You'd need 25-30 Repukes who are retiring after this term

A certain number of congressmen are always leaving, right? Whether they just wanted to serve for a few terms then go back to their companies, they've served for many terms and are ready to go home and lead a life of leisure, or they've just had it with Boehnhead and the Teabagger Brigade, they're going home after this term so they've got nothing left to lose.

You get about thirty of those folks to agree to vote Aye on a clean debt limit increase, you sit on the fucking blue dogs, and you've got something that can go to the Senate. Hopefully you can find enough retiring Republicans to get the bill past Mitch McConnell's permanent filibuster.