Which is a surprise, given that I didn’t think that there were 318 Republicans in the House… no, wait, there aren’t. 82 Democrats voted against raising the debt limit without accompanying spending cuts; which is highly entertaining, given that 114 House Democrats signed Rep. Peter Welch’s letter requesting… precisely this vote. Do compare the signatories to said letter with the no votes on HR 1954: you will notice an entertaining amount of overlap, there.
The hysterical bit? The Democrats are complaining that they didn’t get to add amendments to the bill, which is fairly straightforward: Continue reading House votes against raising debt ceiling, 318-97.