Posted on 12/08/2021 6:30:59 AM PST by cotton1706
Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, has reached an agreement with Democrats to allow them to raise the U.S. debt ceiling. Avoid a sovereign debt default by raising the debt ceiling without relying on Republican votes.
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a bill that will allow Senate Democrats to raise the debt ceiling in a one-time procedure with just 51 votes.
Before Democrats can proceed with raising the debt ceiling, that procedure will need to be approved by 60 senators, and McConnell has expressed confidence in his plan’s support.
Some Republicans have chastised McConnell for agreeing to a deal on the debt ceiling, arguing that Democrats should use the budget reconciliation process to raise it.
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They ALL just want the debt ceiling raised. But they want to PRETEND that they don't.
So they come up with "clever" schemes to get done what they want to get done.
And they'll get those that don't NEED to pretend anymore to go along with it.
They need 10 republicans to vote for it. There's five that are retiring, so those are a given. Romney and Murkowski will go along. And then they'll get three (or more) that were just safely reelected, like Cassidy, Graham, Collins, Ernst, etc.
We've seen this movie before.
The 17th Amendment should be canceled and senators should once again be appointed the States.
And we need a balanced budget amendment — no deficit spending except in times of war as declared by congress.
There is only one party. People need to get that through their thick skulls before we lose everything.
I still believe Mitch McComical was working with the Democrats to oust Pres. Trump in order to protect the DC Swamp.
Why even bother with a ‘Debt Ceiling’ when you can, and do, raise it anytime you feel like it?
It’s like calling your credit card company and asking them to raise the limit..............
I'll say it right now: Republicans help Democrats pass this monstrosity and I'll sit on my hands @ home in 2022. No reason to vote for a Democrat in RINO clothing, IMO.
Eff 'em if that's what they're going to do. (I live in a hell blue state anyway, so my vote don't count...)
Because Mitch the Chi-com Bitch is a traitor.
The thing to remember about Mitchie is that he is an old school backroom dirty politician that only does something if it benefits HIM!
And thus be subject to recall by the state legislature.
“..There is only one party. People need to get that through their thick skulls before we lose everything....”
^THIS^
UniParty....it’s been that way faaaaar too long.
Sure they all wear different hats and tell different lies to their unwashed constituencies, but the truth is, they ALL have the same goals and agenda. And it sure as heck isn’t to MAGA. McComical is just a classic example.
The POS undermined President Trump constantly except for judges.
Mitch McConnell’s Chinese shipping company has already made tens, if not hundreds of millions shipping what’s left of MAGA back to China. The election of Trump cost McConnell as much as anyone in country. There are still idiots here who’d vote for him because of that damned R on the ballot.
Bush League Republicans have always been Assistant Democrats and that is all they will ever be.
They must ALL be replaced.
Including the ones Trump is endorsing.
And getting that credit limit raised when they know you can't pay your bill!
We lost the Republic on Usurpation Day January 20, 2009 when ALL of our elected AND appointed swore in the ineligible Kenyan from Indonesia.
SO were Flimsey Grahamnesty and more than half of the GOP Senators.
Agreed, they all want to spend more money on their friends back home. This is not what the Founding Fathers envisioned.
“But Mitch McConnell prevented Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court.”
Actually, Mitch McConnell did the bare minimum. It was his prerogative, as the senate majority leader, to keep any nominee’s name from a full vote in the senate. That’s all he did.
Any number of Republican senators would have done the same thing if they were the senate majority leader.
He did however influence who Trump picked for the circuit courts and the supreme court. It turns out, a lot of them have been disappointments. Shocker.
Please, do not stay home.
We have to overthrow this monstrosity and remove bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN’Ts.
Primary them all.
If one happens to slip through, do not stay home. There will be people down the ballot that need our support.
In the case of a republiCAN’T slipping though, vote third party on that part.
Register your protest vote.
Well, I guess we don’t need to worry about the Dems getting rid of the filibuster any longer. China Mitch will do it for them when his Chamber of Chinese Commerce donors want it done. How pathetic is that?
It's an easy choice for me.
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