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R Mercer's avatar

There will always be those that will want to blame the Democrats and will do so. The overwhelming majority of them vote republican.

There will always be those, who in the name of fair and balanced reporting, will do the both siderism thing--well, the Democrats COULD have fixed this before the GoP House took over. Charlie gives an example in this very article.

Who gets blamed will (un)shockingly depend upon the political identity of the person in question... which means the big question will be, where will the middle (particularly the center-right) come down on?

The reality is that the debt limit thing is a STUPID thing. Having that in place is like begging for trouble. It should go away.

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JF's avatar

And Rampell is even blaming Democrats for failing to stop the coming Republican engineered meltdown, by squeezing the debt ceiling vote into their final days in power. That logic is a chapter in “bothsides” waffling, even if the next sentence tries to revert to basic logic. Sprinkle just enough blame on the innocent party, to keep some kind of GOP cred, just in case?

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