From Rove, in the WSJ 14 hours ago.

Total bullshit.  Uh, Karl, you might want to try reading the US Constitution.  You see, only members of Congress have a vote on federal legislative proposals, of which raising the debt-ceiling is one.  But then again, Karl, you know this.  Your Republican Congress did it repeatedly, with no fuss, no shrill cries for urgent deficit-reduction, when Bush--you know, the Administration responsible for turning an annual surplus into a sea of red ink, with far less justification than now--was in the Oval Office.

Rove desperately needs to keep the focus on Obama, with his own caucus badly splintering.  McConnell, Boehner, and Cantor working like a well-oiled machine there.  Not.  This is just covering fire as McConnell and others grasp that they've badly overstepped and hold the inferior hand, backpedal furiously, and go into damage control mode.  Start by blaming the other guy.  Oh, and make sure that if it comes to this, you accuse him of playing blame-the-other-guy politics next year, when citizens' memories of this entirely, 100% Republican owned fiasco start to fade a little (a lot, they hope).