Nuke The Debt Ceiling!

Joe Biden gets on board with an idea whose time is coming - use the Senate 'nuclear option' to put debt ceiling legislation beyond the filibuster. Both parties have done this with judges and Cocaine Mitch says he is fine with raising the debt ceiling as long as there are no Republican votes backing it.

Prior to the crushing defeats in the Georgia Senate run-offs that gave Sen. Schumer 50 votes in the Senate, Republicans warned that in such a scenario Democrats would end the filibuster entirely and squeeze through bills on DC statehood and an expanded Supreme Court with 50 votes plus VP Harris. Sen. Manchin has rejected that concept but he was apparently silent on nuking the filibuster:

Senate Democrats discussed carving out the exception at their weekly lunch on Tuesday. No conclusions were reached, but notably, according to participants, the two strongest opponents of filibuster changes, Senators Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, did not speak up in protest. They also did not speak up in support.

This debt ceiling stand-off will be resolved with a gimmicky trick play. My current guess ranks the nuclear option at Number One because it is quick and no more politically painful than reconciliation. Reconciliation is my second guess - its cumbersome and uses a scarce resource since per the current Senate "rules" (LOL) the Dems can only use it twice per session. (Their current plan is to use their second Reconciliation Card on the shrinking $3.5 trillion Social Justice and More bill, but they may do that next January in a new session.)

My third choice is a gadget play to be named later. The fourth choice last gasp is the Trillion Dollar Platinum coin. I don't think the coin is "legal" within the spirit of the law but in the current environment the real question is, can Treasury and Fed lawyers agree its 'legal enough', given the dire alternatives? As a recent example of this mentality, Biden extended the CDC eviction moratorium knowing the courts would eventually shoot it down (The Supreme Court did so, three weeks later.)

As to the platinum coin, I agree with this from Krugman:

Would any of these approaches basically mean using silly gimmicks to avoid catastrophe? Possibly yes. But given the stakes, who cares if the approach sounds silly?

Would using any of these gimmicks involve violating the spirit of the law even if they technically obey the letter? Of course — but Republicans are already doing that through their abuse of the debt ceiling.

Would any attempt to do an end run around the debt ceiling face court challenges? Yes. But the legal process would at the very least buy time to devise a better solution.

Well, yes - the trillion dollar coin is a terrible idea (per SecTreas Yellen!) but maybe not compared to the other terrible ideas on the menu. As to legal challenges, there is a real question about just who might have standing to sue if a coin were issued.

We should find out soon enough. My money is on nukes.

ERRATA: Rohan Grey, a young progressive professor, has a solid piece on the legal background to a platinum coin. We chatted on Twitter and I came away agreeing that the coin is legal enough that Federal Reserve lawyers could make a political decision to go either way. On the one had, I'd say that accepting the coin calls into question their independence. OTOH, rejecting it puts them in the role of refereeing a partisan Executive-Legislative showdown during a bond market meltdown. Both paths are perilous.

 

Comments

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

That's funny Steph.
Explains why all those commie pols want us in EVs.
Guess they forgot about Ol Sparky.

[Old Lurker]

Who needs old sparky?

Just park those EVs in the garage next to the lawn mower's gas can.

[Narciso]

heh, steph,

btw the book 2010, was much better, they shoe horned a silly rivalry with the Soviets, we went back in time since the harmonious era of dr floyd? the chinese space program, as well as the origins of the space drive, and there's even a star wars in joke,

[Narciso]

also another flashforward from demolition man,

the capacitant gel in their auto drive cars made quite a bang

[Rick Ballard]

Another interesting link from the Asia Times:The hidden enemies in Xi’s midst.

There are some interesting cracks in Xi's monolith. I doubt anyone can grasp the true depth and breadth of corruption in China.

[Narciso]

we suspected one of these were related to the supposed defector, what came of that?

[GUS]

PTA'S burning Congress. I'm in.

[GUS]

Globalism. Where you CANNOT get the products you need to make the product you MAKE.
All because CHINA unleashed a gained function virus on the world.
And who gets blamed?
Those who refuse to be injected with drugs that make politicians rich.

[GUS]

Who paid for the research into the VITUS that killed millions and is used for every excuse imaginable to take YOUR liberty away??
I'm surprised FRAUDSKI is still alive.

[Narciso]

blood sucking creatures, usually hold out for a long time gus

[DCSCA]

"Hammered: Biden falls to 38%, ‘not competent,’ ‘honest’"

‘In the worst showing since becoming president, President Joe Biden’s approval has fallen to its lowest ever, and the public no longer feels his team is competent, honest, or led well.’

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hammered-biden-falls-to-38-not-competent-honest/

So much for 50 years of swamp creature experience. By the end of his presidency, Nixon’s approval rating had tumbled to 24 percent.

Just 14 points to go, Joe!

[Narciso]

joans dissapointment

https://twitter.com/JacksonLahmeyer/status/1446134695146573827

[Narciso]

classic mcawful

https://grabien.com/story.php?id=352875

[DCSCA]

Hey Joe, remember what saved Thatcher's butt from getting tossed out of office? She invaded the Falklands!

[Narciso]

what word is misplaced here

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10069545/CIA-sets-mission-center-deal-China-revealed-secretly-training-Taiwan-forces.html

[Narciso]

but the althanis come one in

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10068483/The-Queen-seen-time-Sheikh-phone-tap-scandal-leaves-Windsor-Castle.html

[jimmyk]

“Climate change could have profound consequences for the level, trend growth and variability of economic activity over time,” says Fed governor Lael Brainard

That's Fed-speak for "We want to expand our authority into an area not remotely related to our core responsibility, or to anything we have any expertise on, because reasons."

Next they'll tackle racism.

[Neo]

While both Democrats' (68%) and independents' (31%) trust in media has slid five points over the past year, Republicans' has held steady (at 11%)

[Jim Eagle]

........While both Democrats' (68%)

I wonder why that is?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--“Climate change could have profound consequences for the level, trend growth and variability of economic activity over time,” says Fed governor Lael Brainard--

Yes, it would probably improve those things in the future, as the past increase in CO2 and temperature has done.

It's the gawdamned commie government and affiliates' [including dumbass Fed governors] commands and power grabs to deal with this non existent problem that will cause real and devastating problems.

[jimmyk]

To put my 2:40 more concisely: "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

Welcome back, MM.

[Momto2]

Welcome back, MM!
I'm obviously not keeping up here. I blame a new addition to my former job description. Vocabulary czar :) - The words are pulled from their literature reading assignments which I turn into weekly assignments, quizzes, tests, etc.

On a positive note, being busy means I can't keep up with the latest dreadful things happening to our country.

[Neo]

During an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Tuesday, Yellen was pressed on whether the IRS has the “wherewithal” to collect more information about taxpayers and bank accounts including cash flows, something many Republicans have called invasive.

“Well, of course they do,” Yellen said. “Right now, on every bank account that earns more than $10 a year in interest, the banks report the interest earned to the IRS. That’s part of the information base that includes W2’s and reports on dividends in other income that taxpayers earned. So collection of information is routine.”

Has Yellen actually looked at a bank saving account recently ?
I put $10,000 in a saving account and over the last 3 years earned a total of something like $6.
It has never triggered the $10 minimum.
Tracking $600 transfers happens a lot more often.

[Neo]

--“Climate change could have profound consequences for the level, trend growth and variability of artistic activity over time,” says Hunter Biden--
/snark

[GUS]

Who the fuck does this LAEL dick shine think he is?

Just another LIBTARD who knows nothing about what he speaks.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

That Asia Times article repeats the dubious proposition many of Mel's links do that Xi is on some quest to reform China by throttling corruption and corrupt princes and expresses surprise that sometimes it seems like party interests might eclipse national ones.
The CCP is in its entirety a corrupt, ruthless, vast, organized criminal gang that unlike the relatively benign mafia layers a thick dollop of insane totalitarian political ideology over the violent criminal corruption and greed.
Xi may be smarter and more interested in pure power than some of the rival princes, but he is absolutely morally corrupt as every animal is that rises to the top of such organizations. He has zero interest in transparency or what is best for China and less than zero interest in corruption other than to the extent corruption outside his and his clique's control threatens his power and control.
The good news is the totalitarian maggot elected to fight his way to the top of a tiger that seems more and more determined to consume the disgusting party atop its back.
His campaigns for control and his increasing bellicosity are signs he is struggling and possibly succeeding in consolidating his own power. But they are also signs of overall weakness and increasing instability in China as a whole.
The bad news is it was China's great misfortune to have a young and vital Andropov come along at the juncture when a young and vital Gorbachev might have been sufficiently weak and less ruthless than necessary to prevent China's peacefully throwing off the commies. But Xi, as Andropov did, represents a resurgence of the Old Guard strong arm commies and because he is relatively young and vital stands a very good chance of causing China to fail in a vast, violent cataclysm rather than simply peacefully dissolving at the seams as the USSR did.

[DCSCA]

"Next they'll tackle racism."

Los Angeles conngresscritter Maxine Waters, who has likely never seen a set of long reigns at work on horseback in her life, labeled Texas Border Officers as racist for controlling their mounts and trying to keep migrants from illegally breaking into America. So she plays the race card, trying to evoke imagery of slavery -along w/Al 'Tawana Brawley' Sharpton. In fact she's the racist- and ODD - 'one dumb darkie' for trying to stoke 'white guilt' and spark more arguments for reparations- for the living to pay for the sins of long dead grandfathers, great and great, great grand fathers. This isn't 1861- nor 1961. It's 2021-- the breadth and diversity in society today is light years beyond the 'white guilt' she and Sharpton were trying to spark. Just look at any videotapes of the SOTU speeches from eras past- the white male faces then are today peppered w/ men and women, gay, straight, brown, black, red, yellow, caramel and all kinds in between. It's Maxine Waters and Al Sharpton's kind of racism that needs slapped down immediately. Texans all but chased Sharpton of of the state, too. And rightly so. These attempts at generating 'white guilt' have got to stop right as they happen.

[Neo]

The video allegedly features three players from the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream, including Courtney Williams, Crystal Bradford, and Kalani Brown. The three reportedly throw punches at several people in front of the “Tenders and Bites” food truck.
https://twitter.com/TweenTween3/status/1444791240382427137

If only they showed this much in an actual game.

[Pinandpuller]

Mutual Combat of Chicago’s: Wild Teendom

My understanding of that “Legal Concept” if you will, is that it only modifies charges, it does not legalize (decriminalize) fighting (or in Chicago, gang duels). Kim Fox (Foxx?) is either ignorant of the law herself or counting on the ignorance of the public. You can toss a coin or go play 21 down on a riverboat, whichever you prefer.

[Jane]

DcSCA?

We’re you here as someone else before? You sure sound familiiar?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Comment at the NYPost story on the Moderna guy's debut in the Forbes 400 -

"15 boosters to flatten the curve....we're all in this together."

[henry]

Re Fed climate activism.

The Fed Board is being purged for securities trading. Are we gonna see moar bent knees there going forward? Proclaim prog bullshit, or be destroyed.

This is prep for the $1 Trillion coin nonsense. To be followed by worse nonsense.

Plus, this allows CRT / DIE jam down through the banking system. Wanna buy ammo or ivermectin? Not with the new mandatory digital currency. No laws required.

[henry]

Didn’t Obama let a drone get GPS hijacked to Iran?

@UANI

#Iran ramped up #drone manufacturing operation in recent years and smuggling more advanced weaponized remote control aircraft to proxies in the Middle East, according to an Iranian dissident group.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/6/iran-smuggling-high-tech-drones-militant-allies-op/

[henry]

Ah. A pumpkin shortage. What next Biden?

@cnbc

Experts are warning of shortages this year in pumpkin crops due to lower yield, and that means higher prices. cnb.cx/3iGAlLS

[Narciso]

yes nine years ago, he let an actual iranian sleeper nurges witt escape a year later,

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1446189654106062852
no blaspheming you must worship the skydragon,

[Neo]

Schiff, a California Democrat who became a liberal champion during the first impeachment probe and an enemy to conservatives who parroted Trump's rebuff of a "Russia hoax," admitted that he instructed Democrats on the committee to simplify their questioning strategy after the first session to accommodate Mueller's cognitive inhibitions.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/schiff-claims-robert-mueller-suffering-heartbreaking-cognitive-decline

[DCSCA]

Jane- nope. Always DCSCA. Frequented another blog but they're so anti-trump they ever saw the good w/t bad and the righties there backed Biden out of spite. Northast coasters who know Trump and been familiar w/Biden for decades can tell the difference between the hype of a NYC marketer and the lying slime piped out by a 50 year swamp creature from Wilmington. Or is it Scranton this week.

[henry]

Coincidence?

@cnbc

Fed Governor Lael Brainard is in line for a key banking position. What it could mean for Wall Street

[Narciso]

btw, the shooter yesterday was released, come back when you kill someone, farking da I guess,

[Narciso]

as drinker, will drake, says, whatever could that be, bohica,

[henry]

From the cnbc report:

Fed Governor Lael Brainard should figure prominently as President Joe Biden weighs who will chair the central bank and who will specifically supervise banks.
Even without getting the chair’s position, Brainard can be a major influence on banks. If she is not nominated as chair, she’s a good bet to be named the vice chair for supervision.
There are likely three areas where her influence would be most felt: Climate change, central bank digital currency, and getting banks to raise capital during prosperous times.

[Neo]

AG Linked To Firm That Stores ‘Psychological Profiles’ Of Students, Avoids Parental Consent
https://www.dailywire.com/news/garland-panorama-parental-consent

[Narciso]

who sprung for his 75k bail

[clarice]

https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/bidens-china-diplomacy-blunder/

[Narciso]

cnbc just releases larks vomit everywhere,

[Narciso]

at a certain point, clarice, this is just enemy action, with at least half the cabinet having the dragons tail wrapped around it,

[Marlene]

Good afternoon! Is there an explanation for BIden using a fake set? He lives in the actual White House! He could use any room in the White House for press conferences or booster shot photo ops.

[DCSCA]

This guy is just unbelievable:

"You can’t build a wall high enough to keep out a virus.” - President Plagiarist, 10/7/21

But JOE, you CAN build a wall high enough to keep out the illegal migrants carrying that virus.

IDIOT.

[Melinda]

Ig-

I respectfully disagree with your assertions on China.

What information we DO get from there, is not only heavily spun or at minimum advanced by some faction of princes within the CCP. I only trust a handful of sources, Such as Baldings, Gordon Chang, Kyle Bass, or Doc Chanos. They look a bit differently about the enigma that is China,have money on the table about it, and describe Xi a bit differently than the usual suspects, as well.

It isn't as simple as it once was under Jiang or Deng, IMOO.

[Narciso]

mr biden's neighborhood, with special guest janet yellen in the tiny desk,

[DCSCA]

Gasoline prices at 7 year high, per AAA. It's $5/gallon here in California.

[Narciso]

what would be the counterpart to kremlinology,

[Dave (in MA)]

Marlene,

They *claim* that it's easier to have a studio set than to setup and break down the equipment every time, but why make it a Potemkin White House?.

[DCSCA]

They *claim* that it's easier to have a studio set than to setup and break down the equipment every time...

Funny how the TeeVee equipment is set up in the Congress rotunda 24/7 for pressers...

More wasted $ by Biden.

As if the White House isn't the best set already built for TeeVee.

But it probably does seem that way to an old guy who touts the use of record players. 'Course setting up digital minicams and IPhone cameras takes sooooooooooooo much time.

Like waiting for your 19 inch Admiral b/w set from 1974 to warm up, eh, Joe?

[Davod]

"unmasked immunocompromised daughter tell an unmasked CBS News journo that Gov. Ron DeSantis should allow mask mandates in schools."

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/10/07/unmasked-mom-and-her-unmasked-immunocompromised-daughter-tell-an-unmasked-cbs-news-journo-that-gov-ron-desantis-should-allow-mask-mandates-in-schools/

[Pinandpuller]

What’s wrong, Mr DCSCA? Is Mr Patterico being a real Rod Dreher? If I recall your proclivities correctly, you may enjoy this anecdote:

“One afternoon Colonel Kotikov called me to the door of the hanger. He pointed to a small plane which bore a red star in a white circle. “Who owns this?” he asked. I recognized it as a Texaco plane, and explained that it belonged to an oil firm, The Texas Company.

What right had The Texas Company, he asked, to usurp the red star? He would phone Washington and have it taken away from them immediately. I grabbed his arm and hastily explained that the state of Texas had been known as the “Lone Star State” long before the Russian revolution. I said that if he started a fight about this star, the state of Texas might declare war on Russia all by itself.

“Kotikov wasn’t really sure whether I was joking, but he finally dropped the idea of phoning. I always remember with amusement that this was one of the few times that Harry Hopkins was not called upon for help.”—George Racey Jordan

[DCSCA]

So Biden's DoD sells the aircraft carriers USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F. Kennedy for scrap literally for one cent a ship-- and abandons $85 billion worth of equiipment to the Taliban.

Remember that as inflation climbs and when he raises your taxes for something that 'will pay for itdself and cost nothing.'

Worst.
POTUS.
Ever.

... and Carter smiled... for the first time in 41 years.

[DCSCA]

Pinandpuller: "You can trust your car to the man who wears the star, the big bright Texaco staarrrrr!".

Patterwokeo, PP. The dude quits the GOP because of Trump's persona rather than policy performance; abhors the rise of 'Trumpism' aka populism, which has been fermenting for decades, backs Biden after being warned by those who actually know Joe's history that he's a perpetual bum, then thinks he can spin the GOP back to the future from the outside the tent. It's 1964 redux. Rockefeller Republicans stayed; Birchers left. The ideologues have been dumped for not performing and are leavib in disgusr; the tail no longer wags the dog; they're on the bottom of the deck now and populism is on the rise because of them. And it infuriates them... so...

Welcome to 1964. ;-)

[DCSCA]

P&P: Canary/coal mine:

Republicans stormed the Castle in January;
Democrats stormed the Throne Room in October;

‘Gutfeld!’ topping late nite TeeVee ratings.

See the pattern?

Smart people do.

[Buckeye]

I saw a five second clip of Janet Yellen sitting down at that desk on the Biden set.

She looks even more feeble than Joe.

Somebody is pulling both their strings.

[Jane]

DCSCA!

Wee good to have you here. Welcome!

[Narciso]

it's more like romper room,

shes like a demented elf, but she's after your pot of gold,

[Narciso]

that was se cupp, removing all doubt

[DCSCA]

Jane- well, lots of east coast based here and I'm originally from the Northeast and know Trump from the 80s in my NYC working days-- and Biden from the 70s from my South Jersey days when we'd get Channel 12 piped in from Wilmington. The guy has been a swamp creatured bum for 40-plus years and is the very reason Trump got elected to begin with. He's no darling to be sure, but shook the place up and was a better show than this trainwreck. In less than 8 months it's like reliving the 1970s again. Awful. Inflation, $5 gas... incompetence. Carter looks like Lincpln compared to this twit.

[Narciso]

um you got rid of 40% of your workforce, shambling man

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1446215620891136000

[Narciso]

disclose tv

JUST IN - US nuclear attack submarine hits "unknown object" in South China Sea while submerge. USS Connecticut now limping back to port with "no life threatening injuries" aboard. No damage to nuclear reactor, official says.

[Narciso]

yep

https://www.disclose.tv/top-court-eu-law-breaks-polands-constitution/

[Narciso]

hmm

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/10/07/ipcc-ar6-breaking-the-hegemony-of-global-climate-models/

[Narciso]

he got out because he was a 'snitch' or pretended to be,

https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/10/ex-guantanamo-detainee-praises-talibans-victory-threatens-america-in-new-aqap-video.php

[DCSCA]

American Sailors Injured After USS Connecticut Strikes Unknown Object in South China Sea

U.S. Navy sailors were injured after an attack submarine traveling in the South China Sea hit an unknown underwater object on Saturday. The submarine, the USS Connecticut, is returning to port following the collision, USNI News reported on Thursday. The news outlet reported that about 11 sailors experienced minor or moderate injuries.

https://www.newsweek.com/american-sailors-injured-after-uss-connecticut-strikes-unknown-object-south-china-sea

Meh. Our CIC can’t walk up stairs or talk in complete sentences either.

"America is back!” -Joe Biden

IDIOT.

[Jane]

It’s raining like a banshee here!

[Davod]

Narciso. Part of the Wattsupwiththat web page:

"Walk toward the fire. Don’t worry about what they call you. All those things are said against you because they want to stop you in your tracks. But if you keep going, you’re sending a message to people who are rooting for you, who are agreeing with you. The message is that they can do it, too.” ― Andrew Breitbart"

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Your banshee seems to be dying out at Veterans Blvd. :(

Raining south of us and nothing here.

[Davod]

October 6, 2021 by Ray Payne‘You’re endangering the world’
German tabloid goes to war with China

"...Reichelt doesn’t stop there. He goes on to ask:

“Would you like to explain this to the grieving widows, daughters, sons, husbands, parents of Corona victims all over the world?

Finally, he finishes off by saying:

“Your embassy tells me that I am not living up to the “traditional friendship of our peoples.” I suppose you consider it a great “friendship” when you now generously send masks around the world. This isn’t friendship, I would call it imperialism hidden behind a smile – a Trojan Horse.

“You plan to strengthen China through a plague that you exported. You will not succeed. Corona will be your political end, sooner or later."

https://veteranweb.asn.au/news/youre-endangering-the-world/

[Davod]

The Rock's Wild James Bond Theory May Have Finally Been Proven True. Using clues from Sean Connery's six official James Bond films, a fan makes the case that 1996's The Rock is 007's last adventure.

[Very interesting]

https://www.cbr.com/nicolas-cage-the-rock-james-bond-proven-true-reddit/

[clarice]

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-cult-of-the-vaccine-neurotic

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Or is it Scranton this week.--

I prefer the Solon Scrotum from Scranton.

[Narciso]

yes, they filled in the blanks there, in ways the film really didn't,

[MissMarple2]

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/cawthorn-debt-ceiling-mc-connell/2021/10/07/id/1039594/?oRef=linkin.bio

Interview with Madison Cawthorn and how McConnell and Pelosi don't care about the debt.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Jane- nope. Always DCSCA. Frequented another blog but they're so anti-trump they ever saw the good w/t bad and the righties there backed Biden out of spite.--

I knew I knew that handle from somewhere.
I always thought Frey was asshoe, but Beldar seemed pretty level headed when he had his own blog.
Turns out he's at least a half bubble off too.

[Narciso]

yes he lost his mind, like jim miller, maybe there is something in the watertable up in the northwest

[MissMarple2]

Jack Posobiec Latin cross
@JackPosobiec
·
Oct 6
That escalated quickly…they have flags now.

https://bit.ly/BrandonFlag

[MissMarple2]

Jack Posobiec Latin cross
@JackPosobiec
·
Oct 6
That escalated quickly…they have flags now.

https://bit.ly/BrandonFlag

[MissMarple2]

Sorry for the double post.

[clarice]

https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/paul-sperry-another-major-durham?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cta

[Davod]

So much more polite than FJB.

[Davod]

Mind you. I was more than a little confused until I found out where Brandon comes from.

[clarice]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/polarizing-the-jan-6-justice-system-judge-tanya-chutkan-capitol-11633639202?mod=opinion_lead_pos2

[DCSCA]

Iggy- 'knew I knew that handle from somewhere...'

Beldar's craziness [like every road a toll road] is SOP- like the locust; deeply buried in old GOP dirt but believes you rebuild from within- just as the Rockefeller Republicns did staying w/t party for three decades, not cut and run like today's crop of fair-weather 'Birchers.' They've never known what it's like to be on the bottom of the deck. Now they're learning-- or taking their ball and going home. Thing is, there's not enough of them to start their own party-- never has been, never will be. The tail just doesn't wag the dog any more... so it's stay, leave... or die off.

[DCSCA]

So McConnell cuts deal to ruin the debt ceiling issue into the holidays.

This is such BS.

And they wonder why citizens storm the castle and the throne room.

[sbwaters]

McConnell deflected an assault on Senate filibuster. A deft political move that at least temporarily stops what would otherwise have been unfettered Democrat spending.

[bubarooni]

Just imagine the drama we will have in December. 'The guv is shutting down right before Christmas. There will be no toys under the tree or turkeys in the oven. We must act now!.'

Burn it all down.

[DCSCA]

Iggy- He's a guy who works for the government who whines about government then says his blog is separate from his work-- yet boasts on it that he finally completed some legal case-- which took six years.

Hell, it only took 8 years for America to get to the moon!

[MissMarple2]

bubarooni,

I have already decided everyone is getting gift cards.

[MissMarple2]

Nancy Pelosi Portfolio Tracker
@NancyTracker

If you had invested $10,000 into Pelosi Capital Management ten years ago you would have $125 million today.
5:41 PM · Oct 7, 2021

[DCSCA]

McConnell deflected an assault on Senate filibuster. A deft political move...

Moving it to the holidays doesn't seem very deft.

Just dumb. And why citizen storm the Capitol and bathrooms.

When the Royalists- 'the powers that be'- wall off your Capitol to inhibit access by American citizen and at the same time leave America's southern border wide open for migrants to illegally break into the United States, you know where the problem is-- and it is not with the electorate- R, D or I.

[DCSCA]

"... unfettered Democrat spending"

Spending...

They just sold the aircraft carriers USS Kitty Hawk and the USS John F. Kennedy off for scrap-- LITERALLY for ONCE CENT per ship. And gave away $85 billion in weapons to the Taliban.

Hard to have confidence in either party hacks.

[Davod]

A little history. Downgrading Harry Hopkins from a spy to a dupe. A January 23, 2019, article.

Dianna West, on Paul Kengor's downgrading of Harry Hopkins from a spy to a dupe.

Kengor's comments were made On Jan. 14, [when] Kengor joined Mark Levin on his Fox News show, “Life, Liberty & Levin,” to discuss Russian influence over the life of this nation.

As usual, West is meticulous in her rebuttal. She ends with:

"...Kengor continued: “Herb Romerstein was anything but. And he wanted those of us who follow in his footsteps, or who are concerned about communism still—and about truth above all—to be likewise as careful and thoughtful. Perhaps our best tribute to Herb’s memory would be to do our best to expose what he exposed and remind Americans and the world of what he reminded.”

I agree. So here goes. Romerstein responsibly, carefully, and thoughtfully concluded that Hopkins, aka FDR’s “co-president,” was both a spy and an agent of influence.

Not a dupe."

https://www.theepochtimes.com/downgrading-harry-hopkins-from-spy-to-dupe_2772779.html

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