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In short, every time this century that Republicans have had
Posted on: September 20, 2021 at 23:39:12 CT
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full control of the White House and Congress, Democrats have overwhelmingly voted against raising the debt limit unless it was attached to legislation that contained significant liberal priorities. And as recently as 2018, even those liberal policies were not enough to win over most House Democrats.
Yet these same Democratic leaders—taking their turn controlling the White House and Congress—now slam Republicans for holding the same skeptical policy on the debt limit that Democrats consistently hold whenever in the same minority position. This is as brazenly hypocritical as Senate Democrats spending the past six years enthusiastically filibustering hundreds of Republican bills, and then suddenly declaring the filibuster to be illegitimate as soon as they took back the Senate majority.
To recap: Congressional Democrats could have raised the debt limit themselves in reconciliation. They chose to avoid taking this unpopular vote, and now are demanding that congressional Republicans bail them out instead at their own considerable political risk. And Democrats are demanding that GOP lawmakers provide these votes with nothing in return, which these same congressional Democrats consistently refuse to do themselves when in the minority.
It is easy for liberal readers to dismiss all this “petty politics” and assert that Republicans should stop playing tit-for-tat and “do the right thing,” Sure enough, both parties will eventually work out a debt limit solution as they always do. Still, these critics would have more credibility if they also held accountable the congressional Democrats who regularly employ the very same tactics when in the minority. Otherwise, this selective outrage is just standard political hypocrisy.
https://news.yahoo.com/schumer-trying-gaslight-gop-debt-112745766.html
Yet these same Democratic leaders—taking their turn controlling the White House and Congress—now slam Republicans for holding the same skeptical policy on the debt limit that Democrats consistently hold whenever in the same minority position. This is as brazenly hypocritical as Senate Democrats spending the past six years enthusiastically filibustering hundreds of Republican bills, and then suddenly declaring the filibuster to be illegitimate as soon as they took back the Senate majority.
To recap: Congressional Democrats could have raised the debt limit themselves in reconciliation. They chose to avoid taking this unpopular vote, and now are demanding that congressional Republicans bail them out instead at their own considerable political risk. And Democrats are demanding that GOP lawmakers provide these votes with nothing in return, which these same congressional Democrats consistently refuse to do themselves when in the minority.
It is easy for liberal readers to dismiss all this “petty politics” and assert that Republicans should stop playing tit-for-tat and “do the right thing,” Sure enough, both parties will eventually work out a debt limit solution as they always do. Still, these critics would have more credibility if they also held accountable the congressional Democrats who regularly employ the very same tactics when in the minority. Otherwise, this selective outrage is just standard political hypocrisy.
https://news.yahoo.com/schumer-trying-gaslight-gop-debt-112745766.html
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In short, every time this century that Republicans have had - MizzouTigerz MU - 9/20 23:39:12