Obama says he will not balance budget

Washington Post:

The White House formally threatened Monday to veto a Republican measure requiring congressional approval of a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution before the nation’s debt ceiling can be raised.

House Republican leaders denounced the veto threat and said they would go ahead with a scheduled vote Tuesday on the proposal, which would impose strict new spending caps and require that Congress give the balanced-budget amendment the two-thirds vote necessary to send it to the states for ratification before the debt limit could be raised.

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This is an issue where about three-quarters of the voters want a balanced budget amendment. It is a way for the GOP house to put Obama on the defensive on the debt limit. My guess is the media will try to carry water for Obama in his opposition and call the Republicans crazy. They will have to work hard to overcome the media bias toward Obama and against them.