How Democrats Played Chicken with Default and Cooked Their Own Goose – IOTW Report

How Democrats Played Chicken with Default and Cooked Their Own Goose

The American Conservative

The reality is that the Biden White House and Democrats made a bad bet. They believed that, because of the fight over the Speaker’s gavel, the debt ceiling issue would cause the Republican caucus to fracture. Members to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s right, they thought, would outright prevent a debt ceiling increase, rather than push for legislation that increased the debt ceiling while curtailing spending. Without anything coming out of the House, Democrats believed McCarthy would come to the negotiating table without any leverage. If a deal was struck to increase the debt ceiling, they believed the House Freedom Caucus and other members to the right of McCarthy would once again go to war with the Speaker and even potentially use the motion to vacate they fought for to evict him from the Speaker’s office. If all else failed, Democrats thought maybe Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell would come to their rescue.

To Biden and the Democrats’ chagrin, that’s not how it played out. More

10 Comments on How Democrats Played Chicken with Default and Cooked Their Own Goose

  1. I was watching several republicans who said if Biden didn’t budge they would start adding more demands like getting the U.S. out of the WHO. And keep piling on more until he caved. I guess McCarthy didn’t get the memo.
    And they will still get their 87k armed eye are ess thugs.
    I’m making out checks for candidates…Bobert…yes…MTG…yes…Luna…yes…Gaetz…NO…until he wises up on Jan 6.

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  2. “Republicans are willing to do what Democrats thought they wouldn’t raise the debt ceiling.”

    That’s no surprise to anyone.

    McCarthy and RINOs will cave again, will screw the middle class for decades and tout a great victory on all the bullshit talk shows and the media will exclaim Biden is a master negotiator by raising the debt for many generations to come.

    I’ve seen this re-run show for many years.
    Has either party submitted a Federal Budget?
    They don’t even know what has been spent, when or on what.
    McCarthy, McCONnell and Biden are all on the same page, bait and switch, increasing the debt ceiling.

    Not one US family can live using the Federal Government’s debt ridden financial formula, yet we are forced to pay for it.

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  3. You poor poor babies those mean ole dems pickin’ on you again? Here’s your bottle, a diaper change then a real nice dirt nap. That’ll fix everything. No lights, no camera action….Epsteined.
    Don’t let the bedbugs bite. Much.
    They gotta eat too.

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  4. how quickly we forget the Obama Regime doing the same exact piece of Kabuki Theater … threatening grandma’s Social Security check won’t be mailed, veterans being thrown out of Veterans Homes & no benefits

    … all that happened was they closed down the National Mall & the National Parks
    then Pravda Media whined about no one being able to have their picnic w/ the bears & bison & the repub jellyfish folded like a cheap suit

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  5. Wanna fix this bullshit?

    Repeal the 16th Amendment and let each Congressional District pony up 1/438th of the “budget.”

    Problem solved – once and for all.

    As a bonus, return to each “representative” pretending to “represent” 75,000 instead of pretending to “represent” 750,000 people.

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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