I don’t care if the McConnell plan has political merit or not. He deliberately, stupidly undermined his own base and his counterparts in the House and caught them unawares.
The MSM is having a field day exploiting this GOP fracture, and he has set up the House to be blamed for any default and any shutdown.
A 10-year old could do a better job in project management, and I am livid.
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How about this ~ tell me what your blood pressure goes to when I say "Sequestration".
Nice, hunh?
Now, another line "Line Item Veto".
Tore that gauge up didn't it.
Not that the ideas were any good when Republicans proposed them in the Nixon administration, or the Reagan administration, but you've forgotten all about them.
Both concepts have a number of forms that've been tried ~ always by Republicans. The purpose is to opt for processes that always cut spending.
Alas, neither the Supreme Court nor the broad masses of Senate Democrats agree with those concepts no matter how they're put forward.
Today Harry Reid indicated he agreed with the ideas ~ so that's a break from the Solid Democrat Phalanx of Opposition to Spending Cuts we've faced for the last 100 years!
Now, can you say "Full Funding"?
The Democrats used that idea for a good 20 years to STOP ALL CUTS.
And "cuts"?
Say that slowly ~ CUTS.
Feels good, right?
To a Democrat a cut, any cut, is a failure to provide full funding and account for population growth and inflation.
They don't even speak the same language as the rest of us. How can you believe their take on anything a Republican says?