Why Won’t Democrats Negotiate?

Bush: The Dems are here and we are saying where are the Republicans.. Sign the discharge petition. Madam Speaker will you sign the discharge petition? Where are the Republicans? Sign the discharge petition. The Speaker needs to do his job pic.twitter.com/4ds9fBMXQg

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 25, 2023

Casar: I'm standing here on the Republican side of the aisle not because I'm a Republican, I'm a Democrat, but I want the American people to see that there isn't any Republicans in the seats here behind me on the eve of our default. Where are the Republicans? pic.twitter.com/jKmQaEcJc1

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 25, 2023

But why are the Democrats not negotiating?

jfc. 35 Freedom Caucus members demand McCarthy expand debt limit negotiations with Biden to include even more ransom components, for things like FBI headquarters (?). This is despite the fact that there's no agreement on the ransom they already asked for. https://t.co/8u2dg5Pdnj

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) May 25, 2023

And their candidates for party leader are running against the past, but promising to bring it back to the future.

You have to step back sometimes to appreciate the full absurdity of GOP campaigns. First battle between Trump and DeSantis is over who hates Trumps appointees more, Trump or Desantis https://t.co/z0iAMgpH30

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 25, 2023

Well, and fan service:

Florida governor @GovRonDeSantis says on @clayandbuck if he’s elected president that on his first day in office he will consider pardoning any January 6th defendant he believes was politically prosecuted from a member of the public all the way up to President Trump himself.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) May 25, 2023

"Culture war" is literally all they’ve got.

I think I remember this script from elementary school. https://t.co/tQ9b4XwL2p

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 25, 2023

How many times do we need to say it? The #MAGA crowd doesn’t want a deal - of any kind. They want default. They want chaos. They don’t care how much pain it causes.

House conservatives blanch at leaked details of McCarthy-Biden debt talks - POLITICO https://t.co/o2l18vnhAU

— Reed Galen (@reedgalen) May 25, 2023