“...weak-willed Republicans”
Hah! He calls pushing something through that their constituents hate weak-willed? It’s going to take a strong will to lie and a lot of will to sway conservative rating groups to beat back primary challengers. What the GOP is pulling off is nothing short of masterful politicking.
“... has promised he would stand firm and not bring a standalone bill to reauthorize the bank ...”
Notice what he did there? In other words, he will allow it to come up for vote on a non-standalone bill.
We need the Ex-Im bank. It makes money. And it helps American Exporters compete against the special financing foreign companies get from their governments.
Killing the Export bank was one of the stupidest things the GOP has done this year.
I want to know how much lobby money the GOP got from China to kill the bank in the first place.
This puts us in a very weak position when it comes to cutting back welfare programs for the Gimmedats.
When they can point at our party cramming through freebies for the likes of GE and Boeing it becomes a near-impossible argument to make.
Weak-willed? The man got his way.