This top line from righty pollsters Resurgent Republic puts the Democrats’ position on the debt-ceiling vote in perspective:
“6 in 10 House Democrats support a debt-ceiling plan opposed by 9 in 10 voters.”
This week the House of Representatives will consider President Obama’s request to raise the federal debt limit without any preconditions related to limiting spending. This policy, the so-called “clean” debt ceiling hike, is opposed by 9 in 10 voters, according to a Resurgent Republic survey conducted jointly with the American Action Forum.
Perhaps numbers like this explain why minority whip Steny Hoyer, leader of the House Democratic moderates, is whipping against the ‘clean’ debt-ceiling vote he once supported.