So, Romney is arguing that Republicans are too irresponsible to trust with avoiding a global financial meltdown, but that Democrats can handle it. Well, it seems that a party that can’t handle a simple job (clean vote to raise the debt limit and avoid said meltdown) really shouldn’t be trusted with control of our government.
I wonder if anyone pointed out to him that was the argument he was making.
It all comes down to Republican lizard brains: Democrats bad. Republicans good.
It’s the only consistent through line.
I’m glad that Biden and the current crop of Democrats learned the lessons from earlier fights: Don’t back down. Don’t negotiate with terrorists. Find another way.
I expect that by late next week, Yellen will announce that the Treasury will have series of sales consol bonds. I also wouldn’t be surprised if someone in the next 10 days sues to get the whole debt ceiling nonsense tossed as unconstitutional under the 14th amendment.
“Leverage”? I call it extortion.
Or an oligarch. In which case you just buy the weasels and halfwits (looking at you Justice Thomas.)
“There was no guarantee that either Sinema or Manchin would go along Puhleeze.”
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In Sinema’s defense, she is so Gawd-awful hypocritical, deceitful and duplicitous that she might very well have voted last December to raise the debt ceiling along with only her Democratic colleagues’ votes, just so she could then join with her Republican friends in blaming the Democrats for fiscal irresponsibility. Don’t think for a second that she is above that, or would hesitate to do much worse.
I’m good with both those ideas happening. Although the litigation could take some time, the consol bonds could happen almost immediately.
Friendly rivalry** has devolved into tribalism and bad faith.
Those latter two are a RWNJ/FOX business model run by ghouls as bereft of soul as insanely rich with lucre
The actual government?
sans the people, against the people, from the people
**the motion picture Dave could not be replicated using these GOP politicians
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) bemoaned Thursday that Democrats didn’t just raise the debt ceiling themselves before Republicans got their grubby mitts on it.
I see what you did there, Kate.
A reminder that Romney wanted to be POTUS. What would his slogan have been - the buck stopped when the Democrat left the Oval Office? So much leadership.
Mitt Romney is the Susan Collins of Jeff Flakes.
Oligarchs can be be lying weasely whiny assholes too. Being deluded goes with the territory.
Because, probably.
FIRST!
The question is not “Why didn’t the democrats raise the debt ceiling” on their own so you could just blame them for raising the debt ceiling, but why has the republican party never once balanced a budget on their watch? All republican’s want is to give our tax dollars to the rich while cutting social programs to pay for it, all while refusing to address or fix the budget.
Is it possible the Democrats have game planned this situation and are convinced that the Republicans are going to destroy themselves if they push their approach but they are going to crumble before they blow up the world economy.
“I wish they would have used partisanship to solve this issue because by asking for a bi-partisan solution they have made my party appear very partisan which is the claim we wanted to make against them instead of them appearing…bi-partisan?”
The GOP hunt for reason continues.
I would just like the thank Mitt Romney for the best campaign ad copy any democratic campaign could ask for, for 2024…
[BLACK SCREEN. VOICEOVER AS TEXT FADES IN IN WHITE. AFTER EACH IS READ, IT FADES OUT AGAIN FOR THE NEXT ONE]
“Don’t forget that that could have been solved a long time ago by our Democrat friends…"
“Politicking is the way of this city and it makes the American people sick.”
–Mitt Romney
[FADE-IN: Image of the Capitol]
[V/O:]
“Like when a Republican Senator insists the Democrats need to be the adults, because the Republicans refuse to? We couldn’t agree more, Senator: The American people are sick of the Republicans’ bullshit.”
"This November, the choice is clear:
[FADE TO: IMAGE OF TRUMP:
[CROSSFADE TO: IMAGE OF BIDEN/DARK BRANDON]
Paid for by a metric assload of dark money the Republican-backed Citizen’s United decision enabled, because those guys hate you actually knowing what the hell is going on.
I’m too pissed off to comment on this… someone else will hafta do it…
At least on paper, Democrats had the votes, but they didn’t want to be saddled with (false) Republican attacks that they’d ballooned the debt.
I will never understand why a single sane Democrat would ever worry about false Republican attacks on any issue - it is baked in.
Every once in a while old 47% Mitt has to show up to remind us why we were so glad Barry sunk his battleship
