Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Sunday swiped at Republicans’ brinksmanship on the debt ceiling soon after Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) declared that he is joining his Republican colleagues in refusing to help Democrats suspend the debt ceiling.
There will be NO Republican votes, they consider it bailing Biden out.
What a bunch of whiny toddlers.
The public needs to be reminded every day how much Trump added to the debt.
ETA: FUCK the Republican party, they don’t care about the country, so why should we care about them
Jake, it’s the Kabuki theater I think that frustrates a lot of folks,” Booker said.
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”
They’re all Lucys.
I’ve got the feeling that this is going to backfire spectacularly on the GOP.
There’s absolutely no way that Jayapal and Booker didn’t coordinate with Madame Speaker.
She’s got this. Everything calm the FUCK down.
In San Francisco, the Kabuki Theater is in Japantown.
Cory Booker: bringing allusions to medieval Japanese theater to a gunfight.
The debt ceiling is a perversion of government funding. The costs it purports to limit have already been allocated and approved by Congress and the President. Now what the Repugs want is to say, “We aren’t going to pay the bills we committed to.” Sounds an awful lot like Donnie Trump, doesn’t it? He’s made a career out of stiffing people. Now he and his lackeys want to do it to the entire world.
In short, the debt ceiling needs to be abolished.
But “Forget Jake” is Chinatown
“Kabuki theater” is pretty danged lame. It hides much more than it reveals. What’s the appeal of such a lame shibboleth? Speak plainly, Cory. Say Rs are trying to crash the economy, and cause massive unemployment and other economic damage, so that they can win back the House and Senate in 2022. Say that their policies, if you can call them that, are in the dictionary meaning of the word sociopathic. Point out that the overwhelming majority of Rs still support an ongoing attempt to overthrow by violence the government of the United States.
But “Kabuki theater.” Lame.
Hold the vote, watch the filibuster, pat Joe Manchin on the back.
Do it for everything. OVER AND OVER.
Dems should form a fucking line to pat Manchin on the back EVERYTIME.
With each Dem thanking him for preserving the filibuster, the future will thank him.
The vote making it through the House isn’t in question. The fact that the GOP will both vote against and fillibuster the bill to raise the debt ceiling is the travesty.
After the first vote is fillibustered, the next vote needs to be to eliminate the fillibuster on all bills involving the debt ceiling. Manchin and Sinema have a lot of explaining why we should unnecessarily default on our debt to preserve the fillibuster.
Yup. A lot of back and forth drama about the uncertainty of it all, which functions to get the attention of the ADD public/voters, and then the GQP gets the shiv in a spectacular take down. This is what I dream of.
Sockit Toomey. Striving for a bigly yugely bad legacy.
As if it wasn’t horrific enough already.
This can’t be repeated enough. The GOP is claiming that the increase in the debt ceiling is to pay for the infrastructure and reconciliation bills, but these bills haven’t even been enacted yet and therefore haven’t cost a dime. The increase in the debt ceiling is needed to pay the bill for Trump’s tax cuts and stimulus spending, to pay for money already spent. The GOP members of Congress are betting that the press and the voters are mostly too stupid to understand this. So far, it seems they are right.
I’ve said the Dems should be advertising on every single NFL game how the debt rose over the last 20 years and who was President while it was increased.
They should also show how many T**** admin increases were given without any discussion during the previous sessions of Congress.
Why don’t they do this? Why not control the message instead of let the GQP call what they think is fiscal irresponsibility because a Dem is in the WH?
I’m getting tired of R’s complaining about legislation which has not yet been passed (and may not) as relevant to the debt ceiling. It isn’t; 8 trillion was added to the debt in last 4 to 5 years and payment is due. Biden hasn’t been President for a full year. I hope they reverse ALL of the 2017 tax cuts.
Mrs. Greenspan, Chuck Turd, and the rest of the Perpetual Georgetown Cocktail Party truly aren’t that bright – but they know damn good and well this GOP claim is a shameless, cynical, hypocritical lie.
They’re just too afraid of losing their place at the cool kid’s lunch table in the journalism middle-school cafeteria to rudely point out anything that challenges the lazy, conventional narrative.
Gutless wonders, most of them.