House Passes Debt Limit Deal

This says it all:

Democrats said they struggled with wanting to support Obama's efforts. "It's our conscience versus our president,­" said Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.). "It's a bitch."


Institutio­nal politician­s, profession­al politician­s, are more loyal to the political party hierarchy (after all, it's what gets them into office, provides them with a job and phat benefits)  than to the People they serve or to the Constituti­on.

Steve Cohen is being loyal to a man who ill-served the nation on the whole, and the people in Cohen's district.  Cohen is supporting a man who lied to him and the rest of the Democratic Caucus.  

The LA Times reports:

Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) told reporters that Biden said President Obama "was willing to invoke the 14th Amendment" if the parties could not reach a debt deal by Tuesday's deadline.

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