Not really. It would be like him remembering how many people Bain Capitol axed during one of its vulture capitalist adventures.
“A thousand is just a number. Now watch this drive.”
— Shrubya, commenting on the number of dead servicemen/women in Iraq
I am not so sure our DINO “friend” Manchin would have voted for the reconciliation bill in Dec. 2022 if the Debt Ceiling was raised in it. Romney is not only duplicitous, he is probably wrong.
The truth of the matter is the Debt Ceiling serves no useful purpose in 2023. The damn thing is Unconstitutional and should simply be repealed.
Mitt is a Utah Senator, he’ll never switch parties because he would never be reelected. The state voted for Trump 58% to Biden’s 38% in 2020.
Screw Mitt.
Still, today, in the year of our lord two-thousand and twenty three, in “blue” Seattle, my kid knew middle schoolers who would be kicked out of their home if they came out to their parents.
BREAKING: Harlan Crow may have a photo of his other black friend!
FIFY
Tragic. Those poor kids.
Once again, Mitt Romney makes no sense.
Whatever happened to personal responsibility?
Still, you’ve given him too much credit.
Great write-up about victim Romney. How can republicans pretend to be productive when liberals are pointing out how they keep throwing wrenches in the political machine.
Sabotage isn’t serving the public, not even the white supremacists. It’s a radical desperation of fear of an open equal progressive society.
Well put!
Another “Etch-A-Sketch” moment for Romney!
He has a point, much as I hate to admit it.
One more time, a Republican is blaming the DEMOCRATS for not doing what the GOP can’t or won’t do. It’s always ‘why didn’t you clean up our mess?’
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Note that Slick Mitt won’t lay the blame on Boris Manchin and Natasha Sinema.
I don’t disagree with Romney on the merits. I think if the D’s had done something in the lame duck, it would have been long forgotten by the 2024 elections. And the most politically palatable to frame it would be not to raise the debt ceiling to some arbitrary number, or to eliminate it per se, but to pass a law that states that henceforth, the government is limited to borrowing only to cover any shortfall between appropriations and tax revenue. Make sure that the text of the bill has the word “limit” in it as many times as possible, but don’t peg it to a specific number – peg it to the gap between revenue and legally obligated expenditures. As I understand it, this was actually the practice until relatively recently anyway. But all that assumes that Manchin and Sinema would have voted for anything along those lines, which is far from assured. Probably lots of other D’s would have run from it too, because that’s what politicians do.
There’s an important distinction we need to make. In the present situation, the GOP majority in the House refuses to raise the debt limit. So much of the jabbering class excuses this as “expected” since they are a bunch of loonies elected to gerrymandered districts where they have to watch their right flank at all times. Meanwhile, nobody gets around to asking whether the Senate GOP minority will agree to a debt limit increase.
But last year the situation was different. The Dems controlled the House so the loonies could just be looney. No harm no foul. Until you realize that at least one GOP senator intended to filibuster a debt limit increase and McConnell didn’t want to twist arms to get it thru.
I still think Schumer should have put it to a vote last session. Not thru reconciliation but instead let them filibuster it and try for cloture. Then McConnell could put up or shut up. I’m pretty sure Schumer didn’t want to “waste” the floor time on this.