'Tide is turning against raising debt limit'
WorldNetDaily
122 House Repubs on record against more borrowing
WASHINGTON – Only 96 more votes in the House of Representatives are needed to block a hike in the debt limit, an action that would inevitably result in the first massive cuts in the federal budget in a generation, a WND survey shows.
"The tide is turning against raising the debt limit," says WND's Joseph Farah, the organizer of the "No More Red Ink" campaign that has flooded House Republicans with nearly 1 million red letters objecting to any more borrowing beyond the $14.3 trillion in debt that will be reached sometime around April 15. "When this campaign began, we could identify only two solid Republican votes. Now we have identified 122. That's real progress, but we only have two or three more weeks left to make history."
Farah calls the vote the most important that will be cast in Congress in the next two years and, perhaps, the most important in the last century.
In the first major survey of House Republicans' attitudes toward raising the debt limit, more than half say they are committed to opposing more borrowing and only 23 of 241 take their leadership's position – that approving more borrowing past the 14.3 trillion limit is essential.
The survey was conducted by WND through calls and emails to the offices of members and, when direct responses were not forthcoming, public statements made by the officials were used.
The results are staggering in their lopsidedness, because it takes only 218 votes in the Republican-controlled House to block any effort to raise the debt limit – an action that would precipitate the most drastic cuts in federal government programs in modern history.
A total of 122 House Republicans are already committed to opposing any additional hike in the debt limit, while 54 others says they would do so with conditions – most of which include spending cuts or a balanced budget. An additional 42 members say they are undecided.
April 13, 2011