SNAFU

Remember the Freedom Caucus has been running this from the beginning. https://t.co/gR23yMCL5C

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 20, 2023

No surprise. Been watching this schtick since Gingrich led the House in 1990s.

— Kevin Kresse (@kevinkresse) May 20, 2023

(Politico did tell me Dems were in disarray because Biden was negotiating. Which would be FUBAR. But now the White House and the Hill agree on what’s going on. So: SNAFU.)

Dejected and defeated by the phenomenon they are describing, the Times resorts to a kind of surrender talk — "each party tries to blame the other for the crisis" — conceding that under their own rules "analysis" can do no better than to both sides it. https://t.co/547Wldk2Wu

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) May 20, 2023

Because, you know, the Freedom Caucus has a point that paying for what Congress has already authorized should depend on demands that the rest of Congress doesn’t agree with and Biden will veto. It’s all perfectly sensible when you are “objective” and pretend it doesn’t really mean anything.

Note that Jake Sherman DOESN'T report the obvious implication of this: that the GOP is simply hostage taking.

I mean, he WOULDN'T. But it's still obviously shitty reporting. https://t.co/O7XDrHhvup

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 20, 2023

I wonder who will be the first to report: “We don’t negotiate with terrorists”?