Discussion about this post

User's avatar
MrPug's avatar

I know this is unpopular in these parts but forgive me if I'm not going to join the victory lap here. The Democratic party claims to want more spending on the needy, less spending on the military, making sure everyone pays their fair share of taxes, less fossil fuel extraction, etc. etc. and yet, here we are cheering that more Democrats than Republicans voted against every one of those things to get something the Democrats could have eliminated when they had full control of Congress and the White House.

And, sure, I get the 14th amendment was complicated and somewhat risky, but let us not forget that the Democratic leadership never even put voting to eliminate the debt ceiling on the table during the lame duck session or before. Maybe I missed Pelosi, Schumer and Biden whipping up support for that, but I don't think so. It's kinda hard to argue that Biden is a master negotiator as illustrated in this case, but then claim there was no way he could have gotten enough votes to just eliminate the debt ceiling back in November/December. A sure fire way to not get the votes is to not even try.

So, yay, the world didn't end. Here is my golf clap for that. That's about all of the enthusiasm I can muster for this.

Expand full comment
Amalga's avatar

Plenty of ticks here! Are you west of the Cascades?

Expand full comment
355 more comments...

No posts