So, it looks like the votes exist in both houses of congress to pass this crap sandwich of a debt ceiling bill. Mind you, I’m not necessarily opposed to doing that, because a crap sandwich of a bill is in fact the best possible outcome the GOP could have hoped for given the balance of power in each house that the ballot counters decided to install for us last November.
In fact, when you think through the politics of all of this, it becomes kind of amazing the Democrats decided to fold up like this at this particular time. After all, they could have refused to negotiate on anything and force a government shutdown for which the Republicans would have been inevitably blamed by the corrupt Mockingbird media. Doing that would have provided them an opportunity for rank demagoguery that could have gone on for a week or two before they’d have even had to come to the table to hammer out some nominal “deal” to allow Kevin McCarthy to try to save a little face.
Instead, they allowed the Sock Puppet’s evil handlers to engage in some pretty significant compromises with McCarthy, allowing the Speaker to come out of this looking like the most effective GOP speaker thus far in this century. Not too shabby for a guy who just 5 months ago had to suffer through 11 votes over more than a week just to get the job to begin with.
That hasn’t prevented the members of the House Freedom Caucus from wailing that this compromise is not based on “muh conservative principles.” Well, of course it isn’t - we don’t have a conservative government.