Anybody even remember how we got into this fight that may cost us a world economy?Anyone even remember how he got into this fight with Disney which has now cost the state billions in investment and thousands of jobs? https://t.co/JgGF70J8f5
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 20, 2023
Remember the Freedom Caucus has been running this from the beginning. https://t.co/gR23yMCL5C
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 20, 2023
Wait the House caucus that voted in favor of a coup isn’t being reasonable in negotiations?
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 20, 2023
Just a massive amount for Dems to rightly gnash their teeth about in this article. But the piece still tries to ignore the fact, even with the help of many Ds that they didn't have the votes to do this last fall. https://t.co/JU3r1zOxK1 via @politico
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 20, 2023
So why won’t Democrats negotiate?, objectively asks the media.Illuminating to consider what each side is getting in this “negotiation”. Republicans are getting policy changes they want. Democrats are getting Republicans not to blow the country’s economy.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 20, 2023
Media "tut-tuts" about “good faith.”Debt limit negotiations are going badly.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 20, 2023
A new statement from White House @PressSec hits “a Republican leadership beholden to its MAGA wing” for “threatening to put our nation into default for the first time in our history unless extreme partisan demands are met.” pic.twitter.com/300MVO4Ta0
Aims its concerns at Democrats.This comment from an esteemed member of the DC establishment gives you a sense of how the town remains wired for the GOP. Stern words abt norms/precedents for Ds while terroristic actions by Rs are taken as a given, expected. Playing field permanently tilted one way. https://t.co/V6QfSqzDbP
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 21, 2023
But even the Constitution is political. Isn’t it? At least when Democrats call on it.You are calling this an end run around the political process while taking no account of this not being a part of any normal political process at all. One side is threatening to trigger a devastating economic crisis if it doesn't get its way. You're not thinking clearly abt this.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 20, 2023
The idea that we were going to be saved by journalism is so 1976, when that stupid movie came out. The media have been pretty much in the bag for Republicans since the Johnson administration.
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