McConnell's Solution is No Solution

This has been bugging me all day.  Ace sums it up:

Mitch McConnell is proposing some proceduralist "solution" which seems to give Obama a lot of power to raise the debt limit near-unilaterally. Essentially he gets the power to raise the debt limit by simply sustaining a veto (meaning so long as 1/3 of either chamber is with him, he "wins" on this).

You know why he's doing this, right? He's doing it for politics. He's trying to make Obama own the unpopular increases in the debt limit all for himself. Well, Obama and the Democrats.

As political posturing, it's cute.

But there is more to this than politics. And it won't work. It will be seen as it what it is, Republicans giving Obama to raise the debt limit. So we will be on the hook too, and the debt will continue piling up.

Whatever happens with the debt, or any cutesy political moves that take place, the GOP will be blamed. If the debt goes up, as it will under McConnell's plan, the GOP will get blamed. If there are financial disruptions because of delays in getting a deal, the GOP will be blamed. Obama will be considered blameless by the media and political pundits. The GOP seems to regularly forget that.

They need to negotiate with that in mind, and that means they need to get what their voters want.