I guess it's too much to ask that anybody - anybody - in Washington base activity on principle

The Stafford student loan program - designed for the middle class, as opposed to Pell grants, which are for poor people - had been doling out its loans at a supposedly temporarily lowered rate for a few years.  Well, that rate is set, per the legislation that lowered it, to rise to what it had been.  Of course, the MEC and FHers generally want to extend the lower rate.  But what the hell are John Boehner and Mitt Romney doing going along with this?