Speaker Boehner Caves

Open Email to House Speaker Boehner:

Dear Speaker Boehner,    The Washington Time said that yesterday you gave ground in the debt ceiling fight by offering to raise the nation’s borrowing limit for six weeks, and the White House said President Obama might sign such a measure to avoid default. You proposed the six-week limit increase to the $16.7 trillion debt ceiling in exchange for a White House agreement to talk about a broad set of fiscal issues.
    Bad move on your part. You had the Democrats and the President on the ropes and you let them escape. You obviously know that your proposal of a six-week limit increase in the debt ceiling is real. Any White House agreement to talk about a broad set of fiscal issues is unreal. In subsequent discussion on those issues, for example, you will bring up "let's cut the budget for the Department of Energy". Obama will say "no". That's discussion but doesn't mean any progress. In addition, you know from previous experience that Pres. Obama lies through his teeth.
    You also had an opportunity to explain to the American public that extending the debt ceiling is not necessary to avoid default on payment of government bond interest and many other payments. There is plenty of money in tax receipts to handle those items. You didn't do it, or if you did, it was so weak as to allow Obama to say that he would sign the extension "to avoid default".
    I am severely disappointed. Let's see you now work your way out of this one, keeping in mind previous government experience that once you approve something on a temporary basis, it becomes permanent.