COMMENTARY | Tea party members were quick to counter-attack against Sen. John McCain after his remarks on the Senate floor Wednesday. But it appears that many of them ignored his point — or didn’t understand the gist of it or that he was actually making one.
In the growing tension prompted by the political impasse that has become the debt ceiling talks and Congress’ inability to come to anything near an agreement on what should be done when the debt ceiling is raised (the raising is nearly a foregone conclusion by most legislators not affiliated with the tea party, which, by and large, believes the debt ceiling should remain static and the government should go into shutdown), McCain spoke about the “foolish” idea that the debt ceiling should be harnessed to a proposal for a balanced budget amendment. He also spoke of House tea party leader Michele Bachmann’s promise to
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