OPINION: 'Hopefully, Weathervane McCarthy will begin to point in a different direction when he sees that the preponderance of domestic and global opinion is against him,' writes djrothkopf
Were his threats carried to their dangerous extreme, McCarthy would strike a greater blow against American leadership than any foreign enemy has ever been able to achieve. He would, in direct violation of his constitutional obligations, obliterate theAdmittedly, McCarthy has probably not thought this through. He is, in the best of times, an intellectual feather in the wind who is used to changing directions to suit the prevailing winds in the.
That is wrong, of course. The GOP backed three increases in the debt limit under Trump without so much as a peep. But this is not just hypocritical. To call it a standoff is to suggest that somehow a terrorist who takes hostages and his victims are in a standoff. But until he does, McCarthy and his strategy pose a grave threat, one that will shortly begin to reverberate through the markets, destroying the savings of Americans, and rattling the confidence of the world.
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