.Maddowblog: The GOP's recent debt-ceiling crisis was a mess. Sen. Mitch McConnell intends to insure that the next one is worse.
As the debt-ceiling deadline approached, Senate Republicans had one specific demand: Democrats had to raise the ceiling through the reconciliation process, assigning the debt a specific dollar figure the GOP could use as a political weapon, or Republicans would try to crash the economy on purpose.
Democrats responded that this was impossible: There wasn't enough time to jump through the procedural hoops, even if the governing majority wanted to play the dangerous game, which it didn't.more time to pay the GOP's ransom. It wasn't long, however, before the right decided that McConnell's agreement represented a"blink" in the party's own hostage crisis. A consensus soon took shape: Republicans pushed the nation toward a radical cliff, but backed off before anyone got hurt.midday on Friday that many rank-and-file Republicans concluded that McConnell's strategy was the wrong one.
A few hours after the NBC News piece was published, the mess got quite a bit worse. The New York TimesA day after dropping his party's blockade and allowing action to temporarily increase the federal debt ceiling, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, warned President Biden on Friday that he had no intention of doing so again, reviving the threat of a first-ever federal default in December. In a phone call with Mr. Biden, Mr. McConnell ...
McConnell, accusing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of engaging in"hysterics" on Thursday night, said the governing majority should"ask for my help" again.
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