GOP debt limit vote laden with ideological pork, of course

I call it ideological pork.

The Republicans just couldn't offer up the clean debt limit increase they said they were going to offer (to embarrass the Dems by forcing them to vote for "debt").  They had to put an ideological poison pill in the bill to guarantee that Democrats would vote no, just in case the thing actually had a chance of passing; e.g., they blamed the debt limit increase on Obama.

Oh, and just in case the bill might pass even with that little poison pill, the GOP House pulled one more trick - rather than needing a simple majority to pass, this bill need a 2/3 majority.  How much more transparent could the Republicans be? From Jed at DailyKos:

If it wasn't already obvious that today's so-called "clean" debt limit bill is a political ploy, then all you need to do is read the legislation itself, especially the first section:

H.R. 1954: A bill to implement the President’s request to increase the statutory limit on the public debt.
SECTION 1. FINDING.

The Congress finds that the President’s budget proposal, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2012, necessitates an increase in the statutory debt limit of $2,406,000,000,000.

So if you vote for this bill, you're not just voting to raise the debt limit, you're also going on record in support of the absurd notion that President Obama's 2012 budget proposal is the reason why we need to increase the debt limit. In truth, we need to raise the debt limit because Congress—with Republicans in control of the House—has already passed a 2011 budget that requires an increase in the debt limit. And literally nobody has proposed a 2012 budget that wouldn't require an increase in the debt limit, not even folks like Rand Paul.

It would be one thing if this legislation had a chance of passing, but it doesn't—GOP leadership imposed a two-thirds vote requirement for passage, all but guaranteeing its defeat.