The Republicans fee fees were hurt, oh noes, when Chuck Schumer told them the truth. Even Joe Manchin sided with them and reportedly told Schumer his speech was “fucking stupid.” In any event, the can got kicked down the road and we’ll go through the same song and dance on December 3. Politico:
The entire exercise has exasperated many senators.
“This whole process is stupidity on steroids,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said on Thursday.
Before the furious whipping effort, Republicans tried to let Democrats raise the debt ceiling without their help. Most in the GOP wanted to allow Democrats to pass the measure with just a majority threshold, leaving Republicans out of it. But Cruz refused.
“We’ve been trying to get them in a position to where they can lift it on their own. We shouldn’t put up any hurdles to keep them from doing it,” said Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.). “The goal is to not have our fingerprints on lifting the debt ceiling.”
McConnell said the deal gives Democrats time to go it alone and eventually hike the nation’s credit cap using reconciliation, the same special budget maneuver that Democrats are using to pass their party-line social spending megabill. In that event, Republicans could use the higher debt figure in political ads against the majority party as Democrats defend their razor-thin margins in the 2022 midterms.
Democrats insisted that McConnell had caved by proposing the provisional patch and that they won’t use reconciliation to lift the debt ceiling. Republicans must agree to a longer-term bipartisan solution, as they have done in prior debt limit fights, Democrats say.
“He said all along that he wanted us to do this through budget reconciliation. And we’re not doing it. We made it clear we’re going to stand strong,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) said on Thursday.
Back to the issue with Schumer, he accused the Republicans of almost putting the country over a cliff and they found that abusive. Near calamity in the financial markets has been averted and may I share my cynical take on that? I think that the fact that so many Republican senators are wealthy fat cats with a lot invested in the stock market was the reason that an amicable resolution was found last night. I don’t believe it was over concern about people like me who need my government check to pay the rent next month. In any event, the Democrats were supposed to be grateful the Republicans didn’t drive us over a fiscal cliff and Schumer was not.
Republicans reacted volcanically to Schumer’s speech. Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.), who advanced the debt ceiling hike, told Schumer that his speech was “inappropriate and tone deaf.”
“He made the objective he described more difficult to achieve by virtue of what he said,” said Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who voted to filibuster the bill and also confronted Schumer. “There’s a time to be graceful and there’s a time to be combative. That was a time for grace and common ground.”
Let’s see what December brings. Meanwhile, the major focus in Washington seems to be on the January 6 committee.
To quote Tony Soprano, ” I’m not running a fucking popularity contest”.
A REPPUBLICAN says,
“There’s a time to be graceful and there’s a time to be combative. That was a time for grace and common ground.”
To anyone, especially, a Democrat?
Really?
That’s the one that jumped out at me too. Freaking hypocrites.
Said R voted against it, also. Effing hypocrites.
Let’s face it, Republicans are going to vote no on everything no matter what, because that’s what McConnell has taught them to do on every bill brought forward by Democrats. They don’t want Biden’s administration to achieve success on anything that will benefit the country because if their constituents realize, hey, this was a good idea, and I, personally, am benefiting, they will lose votes in the next election. God forbid that Democrats do anything that will benefit the middle class.
And I don’t know who has bribed Manchin and Sinema to side with the Republicans, but it’s pretty clear that someone HAS!
That was McConnell’s playbook through Obama’s 2 terms and he’ll keep at it as long as he can get away with it.
Now, I’m on my way to leave a message on Manchin’s official site.
Manchin is owned by big coal and big oil. He and Sinema don’t listen to their states at all.
U can’t directly hassel these rich phuckers but u can hassle their offices, along with the leadership. Maybe it’s throwing punches in the air but I have one question: what happens if the majority gets as radicalized as these aholes? Uh oh.
If they’re not going to do anything but vote no on whatever the country wants and needs, then they should resign from their seats, as they’re in clear violation of their oaths of office, which are to the Constitution, not to the party or to the former guy. They’re also wasting *our* money.
The Republicans SHOULD be loyal to the security, good health and good wages for their back-home state, it seems they are, like you PJ, are saying, pretty much skipping every rule in the Constitution, rules of law, as well and totally hiding from their true responsibility to the still living citizens back home … the good-ole-boys, cigar smoking, shit for brains McConnell, is THE problem, they have NOT done anything but provided support for freak Trump, and obstructed Democrats at every opportunity …
A LOT of people from both parties are soon, going to see the poison in “Gym” Jordan and loud mouth Cruz, they are still allowing Trump to fail, wading in his own septic tank …
Trump’s continuous whine and thinking like he is still in the Oval office, able to claim secrecy with those Jan.6 phone calls and little meetings to tell the top level actors how things were going to happen …
Manchin thinks Schumer’s speech was “fucking stupid” hmmm? There’s the pot calling the kettle black.
That’s a cameo appearance by our favorite senator old good boy Joe Manchin. And as was pointed out by someone the guy sitting next to him almost blew it by continually whispering in to Manchins ear. He just borrowed a chair to get his face in palms over Schumer appearance. Nice work if you can get it. And I’m sure Manchins corporate donors are happy that he showed how well he kisses their collective asses.