Plan B and limited government’s future

Published July 13, 2011 4:00am ET



Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is the man in the hot seat today as outraged critics on the Right condemn his Plan B proposal to end the stalemated national debt ceiling negotiations with President Obama, and critics on the Left hail it as a dagger aimed at the heart of limited government. Erick Erickson, RedState.com’s fiery leader, wasted no time in branding Plan B a “sellout” that undercuts and isolates House Republicans, and McConnell as a “Pontius Pilate” leading the way to Republican caving on the national debt ceiling.

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