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How can Republicans be expected to grow a spine by the Democrat's example.?So tired of these Dems playing nice with these assholes.
thisWhat does this mean? Maybe you think there is intellectual content there, but what I see is an empty platitude that could apply equally in any context.
Do you have any experience in law, politics, policy? That's not to say such experience is required, but maybe it's a good idea to have some basis for your angry pronouncements. What I see in your posts is little more than blue MAGA. There a lot of thoughtful people here, with deep experience in some of these fields, who seem to agree with the Schumer strategy. I was skeptical of it at first, and still do not know how I feel about it, but there are some serious questions to the "shut it down" argument and none of them have been meaningfully addressed.
The problem here is that "shut it down" is a bluff. We don't want it to shut down. When the GOP does their shutdown dance, they aren't bluffing. They don't care if it shuts down. And that's all the more true for Trump, who is dying for the chance to say "Congress didn't do its job; I will keep the government open."
This literally could be Trump's Reichstag moment. If you're not aware of that danger or disregard it, and instead go with meaningless rally slogans, you're not helping.
“… Here’s how it could work: The committee-by-committee targets embedded in the budget resolution are considered floors, not ceilings, for shrinking the federal deficit.‘Never been done’: Why Republicans might approve a budget whose numbers don’t match up
The planned House vs. Senate split sidesteps a thorny political problem but sets up a tricky path forward.
“… Republican leaders are expected to embrace a novel strategy as they seek to push forward as soon as this coming week with their partisan package of tax cuts, border security enhancements, military spending and more. Rather than align House and Senate committees behind the same savings targets in the budget framework for that megabill, they want to set different numbers for each chamber.
The split screen could be stark, at least on paper. House committees will be asked to cut at least $2 trillion in spending from safety-net programs, while Senate committees might be directed to find a minimum of a few billion dollars in savings. It’s possible to write a final package that can bridge the difference, but it’s likely to be politically tricky — requiring trust between GOP lawmakers in the two chambers after months of cross-Capitol competition, along with substantial pressure from Trump. …”
In fairness, math is why we have national debt. If we could get rid of math, we could get rid of the national debt.Math is a tool of the Deep State.