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How I despise the school of credulous questioning in journalism, now being exhibited by Andrea Mitchell asking why the President doesn't sit down and explain the need for a clean debt ceiling bill from the speaker. Good Lord.

— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) April 25, 2023

Yeah, it really is Biden’s fault.

Gaetz: Features of the deal that allowed McCarthy to ascend to the speakership require him to fight on top line spending levels in this debt limit battle and to not delay that for the appropriations process.. pic.twitter.com/RYMgY5vIU9

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 26, 2023

And why won’t Biden negotiate?

Question: McCarthy can lose four. How many holdouts are there, yourself included?
Gaetz: Twice that. So I do not expect that there will be a vote as planned tomorrow on the McCarthy debt limit increase.. pic.twitter.com/bwE8zFlVeS

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 26, 2023

We are going to get endless polls now on how much Biden is responsible for Republicans giving up all pretense of being interested in governing.

— Schooley ♟️ (@Rschooley) April 25, 2023

Meanwhile, the horse race is on:

The Trump campaign has tapped John Brabender to be its TV ad consultant, per person familiar. He replaces Jamestown Associates, which the campaign has parted ways with

— Alex Isenstadt (@politicoalex) April 25, 2023

Biden beginning his ad buys starting tomorrow, in AZ, MI, NV, PA, and WI so far, per an ad-tracking source

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 25, 2023

Relatively small buys, per source, with 60-second and 90-second spots

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 26, 2023

Joe Biden Taps A ‘Get-Sh*t-Done’ Staffer To Lead His Re-Election Campaign https://t.co/x2ia2H7nnO via @TPM

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 25, 2023

News you can use! And then there are the credulous ones:

Eventually the millennial and zoomer generations will overwhelm the consultant-protecting, prevent-defense gerontocracy, and push forward the big structural changes we need--including expanding the court. But the first big test of that will be 2028, not 2024. /end

— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) April 25, 2023

I remember when this is what the anti-war /pro civil rights 18 year olds were gonna do with the vote 🗳️. And then Nixon won in ‘72, and Reagan in ‘80, because young voters weren’t all campus protesters or part of the “Woodstock generation.” 

Atkinson also thinks the hope of “structural change” is AOC, who has as much chance of taking the White House as McGovern did. Those who don’t learn from history, and all that. I’d love to see “structural change,” but the last person to effect it was LBJ. Like Nixon was the only one who could go to Mao’s China, LBJ was the only one who could pass Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, indeed establish much of our modern society. Structural change won’t come from AOC. Much as I admire her, she simply won’t be allowed. LBJ only got the chance because JFK the Yankee needed a Texan on the ticket; and then LBJ ran against Goldwater. (Texas was a Democratic stronghold, but, as I say, Kennedy was a Yankee.)

Jackson: I’m blowing the alarm bells right now pic.twitter.com/rnVUEQsiRk

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 26, 2023

I’m not sure what “blowing the alarm bells” means, but it sounds disgusting.

Wow. This is a recording of Ted Cruz admitting how he intended to throw out the votes in the 2020 election and install Donald Trump as dictator. All these recordings are being turned over to Special Counsel Jack Smith. https://t.co/yTECwcx88t

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) April 25, 2023

Does this mean we might finally get rid of Ted Cruz?

Ted Cruz was asked, *who* would decide the winner of the 2020 election under his "step two" for Jan 6 --

his answer was political people he'd appoint to a fake commission to steal the election. https://t.co/Ejj3DQwxL2

— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) April 25, 2023

I don’t think Jeebus loves me that much.