Remember when the House speaker valiantly compromised with President Biden on the debt ceiling and averted a government shutdown? He started backtracking almost immediately.
The censure of Rep. Adam B. Schiff was only one of the Republicans’ boneheaded attempts to weaponize the government against Democrats.Amid the coming spending debates, expect to hear a lot of Republican condemnations of Democrats’ profligacy. And when you do, keep in mind Nikki Haley’s
during the recent Republican presidential debate at her rivals who blamed Democrats for the nation’s debt: “The truth is that Biden didn’t do this to us. Our Republicans did this to us, too.”last week, “When President Trump was president, you didn’t hear anything from we Republicans about how we were spending too much and trillion-dollar deficits. Quiet as little lambs! Now President Biden is president — Oh, we’re going to shut down government if we don’t rein in spending.
Given all the examples of the last three decades of Republicans paying a political price for shuttering the government — and thereby disrupting public services, benefits, payrolls, projects and so much more — you’d think no one would be so stupid as to openly provoke a shutdown. Remember, however, that an unusually large number of House Republicans,, have come to Congress only in the last four years; they’re inexperienced. And they are generally more radical than their predecessors.
That is who and what McCarthy is dealing with. It’s almost enough to make you feel sorry for him. Except that he’s become one of them.
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