Sargent has this right: when Dems spend their time explaining Republicans’ irresponsibility on the debt limit, they’re missing the point. What Dems _want_ the public to view as hypocrisy is intended, in fact, to demonstrate Republicans’ power to do as they please.
https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1442863276656709639
To sputter about hypocrisy makes Dems look feckless. Republicans are being consistent: they’re asserting that they can do as they please, and don’t mind if anyone calls them out.
Dems would do well to refuse to play along — by junking the debt limit entirely.
Dems would do well to refuse to play along — by junking the debt limit entirely.
https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs/status/1442866340050599938
“[Republicans] must allow us”: no, Sen. Durbin, they won’t allow it. The whole goal here is to demonstrate Republicans’ power _by disallowing it_.
Dems get nowhere by appealing to some imagined, impartial center to judge this hypocrisy for what it is.
Dems get nowhere by appealing to some imagined, impartial center to judge this hypocrisy for what it is.
https://twitter.com/SenatorDurbin/status/1442884930338443268
17 years after @joshtpm’s introduction of the concept of dominance politics — “a politics derived from the inherent appeal of power and the ability to dominate others” — far too many Dems in Congress fail to understand or even recognize it. talkingpointsmemo.com/20th-anniversa… 
Yep.
If the point of Republicans antics is to demonstrate their raw power, the most commensurate response is to render them powerless. Dems can scrap the debt limit with zero Republican help — if they agree to act in concert to do so.
If the point of Republicans antics is to demonstrate their raw power, the most commensurate response is to render them powerless. Dems can scrap the debt limit with zero Republican help — if they agree to act in concert to do so.
https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/1442892278175911940
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