Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Monday morning that Democrats will use this week to launch a counteroffensive after House Republicans passed their debt ceiling bill last week.
That’ll learn 'em.
A semantics strategy will not succeed. Schumer and his colleagues need to call this bill what it is. It defunds schools. It starves the vulnerable. It will cause a million people to lose their jobs. They should stick to the basics.
So Schumer should not put any effort into messaging?
How about hearings on whether to put Malcolm X or Cesar Chavez on the trillion dollar coin?
Its not like the major news media really will write the stories on their own, so Democrats spelling consequences out I suppose is the only strategy.
But good luck that it doesn’t become the Democrats say this, Republicans that stories.
You cannot fix lazy or lack or resources.
The trillion dollar coin idea has merit. Woke hearings will make the GOP so sad.
What the House Republicans obviously need is temperate and dispassionate committee testimony. That’ll learn 'em.
I think that a messaging effort is important. Most people do not grasp the weight of what default means to our worldwide reputation and to the foundation that the US dollar supplies to global credit markets. That’s too much embedded nuance. A direct message that defines what the nihilistic Republican plan means to anyone’s everyday life delivers a powerful message.
DOOM DOOM DOOM
Wow, that is pretty tough love! Two aspirational goals there: 1) that Republicans politicians learn something, and 2) Democratic congress critters somehow fix the GOP to do so.
Kevin McCarthy: Drunk off his ass and aiming his coal-blowing pickup straight into the side of a cliff at 110 mph with MTG hooting and hollering from the passenger side about how epic it’s gonna be.
Chuck Schumer: Let’s hold a hearing to discuss this.
Apologies, Mr. Coin, but I don’t think I have predicted any Doom. My observation is simply that Chuck Schumer is serving up the weakest tea imaginable.
“Default on America Act” – that is, DOA Act. Finally, Democrats start showing some skill at acronymic titling!
Slightly O/T
But has anyone else seen this?
As a former State Auditor, this makes me sick to my stomach. Republican state legislators are drunk on power and Americans and the people of Iowa are going to suffer. Outrageous. https://t.co/sOnQlhGPgh
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) April 28, 2023
Iowa House Republicans passed a bill Thursday, with a vote of 55-41, severely restricting what the Iowa State Auditor’s office can do to watch over other government agencies by limiting what information the auditor can access.
I only bring this up because it seems once a Republican controlled state does something like this then others follow suit.
Scrooge McDuck is a friend of mine. He suggests Ad men who specialize in messaging. Big-time pros.
He’s got the dough and is waiting for the call.
No, you put Trump on it.
Then watch him talk about what a great idea it is, and the rest of the GOP try to oppose it while he’s talking it up.
And what would stronger tea be from the Senate Majority leader? The coin idea has merit but that’s not up to Schumer to decide. A pat on Biden’s back if he does it would be nice.
Sending the Marshal of the Senate to arrest Kevin McCarthy and imprison him in the Senate Jail Cell pending his execution for Treason And High Misdemeanors Upon The Body Public.
I’m not Chuck Schumer. He’s still shit at his job.
Well as long as you’re not suggesting anything to extreme that might cast Kevin in a sympathetic light and convince people Democrats are over-reaching, or anything… 