.MaddowBlog: What's good (and what's not) about Congress' new debt-ceiling deal
to jump through the procedural hoops — even if they wanted to, which they didn't.
The date was not chosen at random: Last week's deal to prevent a government shutdown also moved the funding deadline to Dec. 3. In other words, lawmakers have created an important new challenge — you're going to be seeing a lot of"cliff" references in the coming weeks — that will combine two important and necessary tasks.
The implicit message behind McConnell's debt-ceiling offer was plain:"You don't have time to pay my ransom the way I want it to be paid, so I'm prepared to give you more time to do exactly what I command you to do."First, because it prevents default in 11 days. Second, Democrats were determined to avoid going over the cliff, but the party wasn't yet unified on a solution, and there was limited time to settle on one.
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