Way, way back in the day before the Republicans lost 7 of the last 8 Presidential popular votes they really had a mental precept their Party had an electoral lock on the Presidency–until that horrifying interloper Bill Clinton came along.
One the bitter lessons from 1992 for the GOP was that if their base effectively abandons the election they have no chance for the Presidency, after George Bush broke the all-holy pledge of raising taxes like any responsible liberal too many didn’t vote and by God and baby Jesus that was never going to happen again.
Navigating the American landscape of political existence it was a fun time to be a liberal, for of course Clinton set the mold for triangulating the Democratic base, a polite way of demonstrating real liberal politics really wasn’t him. While the Republicans slavishly adhered to any Fox whim of their base since then ours got pushed around and splintered, eventually leading to the good fun times of the pushback Sanders candidacy.
Anyway–ahem–reading the latest commentary on our beyond-absurd American political machinations of the debt ceiling at the Washington Post this morning I know what an utter disaster it would be for the morale and activism of the Democratic base if somehow the Biden administration is seen as a weak, capitulating bully victim at the conclusion of it all.
The Republicans have nothing but their frantic yapping extortion, they have no plausible political or moral basis for holding the country hostage with the debt ceiling.
How many times must it be said that human psychological status is rarely static? You’re either moving forwards or backwards, my god look at the Republicans and their rampaging regression with this horribly sick punching down bully behavior against the trans community and their terribly dangerous war on education, the truth and even the holy base system of American voting integrity!
The House Fox Republicans the Party has currently barfed up for leadership are the perfect proteges of Newt Gingrich run amok. No they don’t give a damn about truth or country, of course not, not even themselves, all they want to do is humiliate President Biden and stick it to those liberals.
Sorry, President Biden, this is a nasty, tough political fight against opponents who adhere to no rules whatsoever and don’t give a damn about the cruelty they inflict, just like any good extortionist. Don’t perceive the realism about who the Republicans have become and you’ll come out a loser.
Use the video of Trump saying debt ceiling extortion is a terrible idea, then use the 14th amendment to thwart the extortion. If there’s another way out of this mess I don’t see it.
Are you telling me the announcement of the 2024 Biden Presidential campaign is supposed to start off with losing capitulation to those ranting lying Republicans clowns in the House? Do you have any idea of the crushing embarrassment and discouragement that would put the Democratic base through? The base that absolutely must be there to win in 2024?
I really, really don’t want to live through that and then watch what it would do to the 2024 election. Duty to country, economy and decency forces the Biden administration not to give in to the House Republican freaks, yes, but duty to the Party base and the 2024 election better convince them to use the 14th amendment in this sick fight.
I and the rest of the Democratic base are watching this debt ceiling fight very closely and will not accept losing to House Republicans. The Biden Administration insists there must be a Congressional solution, meaning somehow the House Republicans have to come through as responsible political actors. What a classic, stupidly clumsy way to lose this fight, god help us all if President Biden doesn’t understand the extortion trap he’s in and act accordingly.