What independents from the GOP? They all voted for McCarthy's ransom note. The only GOP members of the House who voted nay were because the ransom WASN'T HIGH ENOUGH.
What independents from the GOP? They all voted for McCarthy's ransom note. The only GOP members of the House who voted nay were because the ransom WASN'T HIGH ENOUGH.
Do you really think that any ransom was really what was being attempted? Do you really think that the drivers of this business in the GOP really give a damn about limited government or rational limits on public expenditure? Do you not think that all they really intend is to foment suffcient default-adjacent economic chaos and misery so Democrats go down in 2024?
Possibly there are one or two -- maybe even enough to field a basketball team -- who think they are on a mission to set the nation on a sustainable fiscal path -- and a couple of football teams' worth more who are too Q-addled to be said to have sufficient understanding to spell "fiscal", much less use it in a sentence.
But preventing a default and the ensuing economic disaster is absolutely against the interest of those who do know what they want, and are acting to get it. Because what they want is to win the next election, and to do so with a margin that will allow them to prevent any further elections from ever challenging them again. In their minds, if they can make things catastrophically bad enough, not only will Biden lose and lose badly, but so will enough Democrats to assure wide GOP majorities in the House and Senate. Thus when Trump take office he will be unchecked by any opposing institution, and free to rule by diktat.
And he may have to, because the nation will have defaulted on its debt, the dollar will be in free fall, the price of imports will be soaring, and the desperate American population, facing widespread unemployment and the defenestration of their dreams of retirement, will be in a very bad mood.
That, I submit, is what motivates the behavior of the GOP. They don't want a compromise, even on their own terms -- because their real objective is to create a disaster for their benefit.
What independents from the GOP? They all voted for McCarthy's ransom note. The only GOP members of the House who voted nay were because the ransom WASN'T HIGH ENOUGH.
Do you really think that any ransom was really what was being attempted? Do you really think that the drivers of this business in the GOP really give a damn about limited government or rational limits on public expenditure? Do you not think that all they really intend is to foment suffcient default-adjacent economic chaos and misery so Democrats go down in 2024?
Possibly there are one or two -- maybe even enough to field a basketball team -- who think they are on a mission to set the nation on a sustainable fiscal path -- and a couple of football teams' worth more who are too Q-addled to be said to have sufficient understanding to spell "fiscal", much less use it in a sentence.
But preventing a default and the ensuing economic disaster is absolutely against the interest of those who do know what they want, and are acting to get it. Because what they want is to win the next election, and to do so with a margin that will allow them to prevent any further elections from ever challenging them again. In their minds, if they can make things catastrophically bad enough, not only will Biden lose and lose badly, but so will enough Democrats to assure wide GOP majorities in the House and Senate. Thus when Trump take office he will be unchecked by any opposing institution, and free to rule by diktat.
And he may have to, because the nation will have defaulted on its debt, the dollar will be in free fall, the price of imports will be soaring, and the desperate American population, facing widespread unemployment and the defenestration of their dreams of retirement, will be in a very bad mood.
That, I submit, is what motivates the behavior of the GOP. They don't want a compromise, even on their own terms -- because their real objective is to create a disaster for their benefit.