Mazie, you should’ve gone with “turtle shit”.
Josh Marshall’s view:
Why is Mitch McConnell blinking? Let’s be clear: this is a blink, not a cave. There’s a lot to play out. But here is the gist. Democrats refusal to budge on using reconciliation to beat Republicans’ repeated filibusters is moving quickly toward a situation where there will literally be only two options: filibuster carve-out or debt default. Those are both very bad options to McConnell. As I noted yesterday, this isn’t a matter of saying “Oh Democrats are tougher. They won’t cave.” It’s that the mechanics of reconciliation will mean there’s no more time. They’ll have no way to cave. That calendar reality creates a very bad situation for McConnell.
McConnell’s move tells us he doesn’t believe Schumer will budge on reconciliation and that will move toward the default or filibuster carve out scenario. He doesn’t want to get there.
So what he’s trying to do is get rid of that time limit, that calendar reality with “expedited reconciliation.” Basically reconciliation but he’ll allow it to be super quick now.
Pretty soon we’re gonna need a montage.
ShivaX
4717
Every time I think “well, Romney isn’t that bad” he has to remind me he’s still fucking terrible.
JoshL
4719
What an exciting thing it must be to be a Republican Senator. To think, “If I don’t vote to destroy the U.S. Economy, I’ll lose my primary!”
Thrag
4720
I want McConnell to fail. Force the filibuster change and make clear GOP deals are worthless.
Which vote is this? The debt ceiling one?
Thrag
4725
Cloture for the debt ceiling bill so the real vote can take place.
Is it expected that everyone who voted yes on this would vote yes on the actual bill?
Timex
4727
No, but it doesn’t matter. All 50 democrats will vote to raise the debt ceiling.
138
4728
But only into December. We’re not out of the woods yet. Dems should get their asses moving.
Canuck
4731
If this only gets us to December then what does this mean for the future? It sounds like kicking the can down the road to me. Should the whole reconciliation thing be over by then?
It certainly puts an imperative on the Democrats to get their bills passed between now and then to prevent Mitch from using it as a lever/negotiation hostage against them in December.
