The bottom line here is that the current GOP leadership showed that they are unwilling to really fight when it counts and unwilling to go to the limit on a major issue.
They’ll say “we only have the House, we only have 1/2 of 1/3 of the Govt”
I say, you had the WH, the House and the Senate from 2003-2006 and what did you?
Even if they had the Senate the Dems would still have 40 Senators. Same with if they had the WH.
Unless they had the WH, the House and 60+ in the Senate the dems will have the same leverage they have now. In fact, the GOP would likely need closer to 65 in the Senate because of the Brown/Snowe/Collins/Murkowski/McCain/Graham/etc... group who we can’t really rely on to be conservative.
So there’s always going to be some excuse. If they didn’t go all the way here, they won’t in the future.
I think we had the WH and the dems on the ropes. They didn’t want a default, they would have done anything to avoid it. If we had held out to say Monday afternoon and said “you pass CCB, that’s the deal” we’d have gotten that. If we had said “you pass the BBA, that’s the deal” we’d have gotten that.
This could have been a huge win and a defning moment and instead it looks like it won’t be.
‘I say, you had the WH, the House and the Senate from 2003-2006 and what did you?’
We didn’t have the WH in 2003-2004. Bush was President.