Debt ceiling Kabuki

http://capitalgainsandgames.com/blog/stan-collender/2260/dirty-secret-about-todays-clean-debt-ceiling-vote Stan Collender: "The Dirty Secret About Today's "Clean" Debt Ceiling Vote: The House Republican leadership wants everyone to think that the expected large &ldquo;no&rdquo; vote this evening on a &ldquo;clean&rdquo; debt ceiling will demonstrate that there&rsquo;s no support for increasing the government&rsquo;s borrowing limit unless deficit reductions are attached. That&rsquo;s simply not true.... [A] debt ceiling increase with deficit reductions attached would also very likely... if not certainly... be rejected [by the House].  In other words, just because a debt ceiling increase that doesn&rsquo;t include spending cuts or revenue increases can&rsquo;t be adopted doesn&rsquo;t automatically mean that, as the [House] leadership wants us to believe, a bill with them will pass..."