2 months ago
Biden “I am not negotiating”
This week
Biden “please bend me over”
He is the absolute worst.
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What did they concede?
Every condition of raising the ceiling is a concession.
This is the definition of bipartisanship in the US. Republicans get everything they want.
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But to all my fellow Democrats unhappy with this compromise, there is an easy fix: Win back control of the House in 2024 — while retaining the Senate and White House — and they can roll back any parts of the deal they find objectionable.
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They’re crazy
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Roy contended that McCarthy cut a hand-shake deal in January that all nine Republicans on the powerful panel must agree to move any legislation forward, otherwise bills could not be considered by the full House for majority approval.
Who wants to tell him?
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Nancy Mace isn’t even on board with this. I’m thinking this bill is DOA and so is McCarthy’s speakership.
So AOC was right. McCarthy is nowhere close to having the votes.
What happens when this compromised plan fails? Biden has to invoke, right? We can’t fucking default.
I think either you get 5 R votes for discharge petition and clean increase, or Biden invokes/coin/etc.
In which case, Biden may have played this perfectly. He would get credit as a bipartisan negotiator, while still getting clean increase and pissing off R’s (and possibly ending McCarthy’s speakership). All while not being able to find his pants.
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That’s silly. They only get most of what they want while the Dems get nothing.
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I think it could be argued that the Dems are getting what they want too.
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I’m in the clean-bill-or-default camp.