"Now, Mr. President, in a few moments, the Senate will pass an extension of the debt limit through early December, avoiding a first-ever Republican-manufactured default on the national debt. On Monday morning, I said we needed to pass a bill to address the debt limit by the end of the week, and that is exactly what we did. Republicans played a dangerous and risky partisan game, and I am glad that their brinksmanship did not work." -- excerpt of Democratic Majority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer's remarks on October 7. This absolutely accurate statement caused manufactured angst among Republican weasels, and at least one self- involved Senate "Democrat" jackass to hide his face in his hands as they were spoken. We note some reactions to the reactions:
Wow, @LeaderMcConnell is complaining that another senator has "poisoned the well" with partisan hackery ... presumably because he considers that *his* role? https://t.co/JRIj1F5ExB
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) October 8, 2021
the GOP, which shielded Trump from accountability and whitewashed a violent insurrection against democracy, struggled tonight to get one-fifth of its 50 senators to permit a vote allowing Democrats to save the economy from a calamitous threat it contrived for political advantage
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 8, 2021
Republicans considered mustering 11 of 50 senators to let Democrats defuse their economic threat a huge favor to Democrats, as opposed to their obligation to the country
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 9, 2021
their feeling of entitlement to deploy that threat is why Schumer's criticism so offended them
Re the media (Mr. Harwood excepted) and their generic view --
contemporary political journalism as i understand it is the republican party flying the plane into the mountain and democrats attempting to stop it and journalists trying to debate the relative merits of flying the plane into the mountain.
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) October 8, 2021
