Some people don’t handle pressure well. The House Majority Leader, for example, is so stressed, he’s starting to crack.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) declared Thursday that Senate Democrats would be responsible for a national default if they defeat a House plan to raise the debt limit.
Cantor starkly laid out the options: Either the Senate passes the House debt-limit legislation or the nation will likely default.
“There are two choices left,” Cantor said. “When we send this bill over, this compromise piece of legislation, [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid [D-Nev.] can take that up, pass it, send it to the White House. We can avoid the potential consequences of going past Aug. 2 and get on with the business of this country, or it will be on Harry Reid to bear the consequences of economic damage, and I don’t want to see that.” Read more
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