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McConnell’s Debt Ceiling Threats Are a Trick. He Knows Democrats Have to Fall For it.
Why do they even bother trying to appease him?
It’s certainly no secret that I have taken issue with corporate Democrats, particularly now with Democrats enjoying unilateral control of the House, Senate, and White House. It’s been as infuriating as it is entertaining to watch them scramble to come up with excuses for their lack of action. That said, with Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema already threatening to torpedo virtually everything good the Democratic party could accomplish and allowing their likeminded, cowardly colleagues to hide behind them, sometimes it’s easy to forget the lengths Senate Republicans are still willing to go to do it themselves. Or at least, the lengths they’re pretending to be willing go.
None other than the human turtle himself, Mitch McConnell has been making a number of headlines again lately, namely for his comments and supposed stance regarding the debt ceiling.
Ayelet Sheffey and Joseph Zaballos-Roig with Business Insider write:
“…As the White House stressed the urgency of raising the debt ceiling to avoid a government default, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Monday that the House would pass legislation to fund…
