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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMoscow Mitch plays chicken with the debt ceiling
Mitch McConnell warns that Republicans won't back down from vow to force Democrats to raise debt ceiling alone: 'Do you guys think I'm bluffing?'Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appears more determined than ever to hold the Republican line from breaking on the debt ceiling.
In an interview with Punchbowl News, the Kentucky Republican fired a warning shot to Democrats as he dug in further on a view he's publicly expressed since late July.
"It's their obligation. They should step up. It's hard being in the majority. They are the ones who will raise the debt limit," he said, adding, "Do you guys think I'm bluffing?"
McConnell insisted that the US must never default on its debt payments and pointed back to his previous support of raising the ceiling to cover spending that Congressional Republicans and Democrats had struck deals on. He said that wasn't the case this year as Democrats passed a $1.9 trillion stimulus law along party-lines. They're also drafting another spending package aimed at shoring up the social safety net.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mitch-mcconnell-warns-that-republicans-wont-back-down-from-vow-to-force-democrats-to-raise-debt-ceiling-alone-do-you-guys-think-im-bluffing/ar-AAOt5qj
That horse's ass needs his ivermectin.
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Moscow Mitch plays chicken with the debt ceiling (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Sep 2021
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Walleye
(31,024 posts)1. Nobody thinks you are bluffing, macho Moscow Mitch. We just think you're the worst kind of hypocrit
RainCaster
(10,876 posts)2. We could stay under that debt ceiling...
... all we need is to raise taxes on the wealthy & corporations. I'm sure Moscow Mitch would like that.
lastlib
(23,235 posts)3. (I used to think Jesse Helms was the most evil senator ever.)
Jesse can't hold a candle to MoscowMitch Traitor McTurdle. I've developed a SEEETHING white-hot hatred for the basturd.
gab13by13
(21,342 posts)4. More right wing talking points,
I get tired of reading them here.
Bring it on Mitch, there shouldn't even be a debt ceiling vote, bills must be paid.
Lanius
(599 posts)5. It's the same thing with this right-wing stooge every time we get a Democratic president
I hope future generations remember how destructive McConnell was for US politics and he goes down as the most partisan, divisive, and corrupt Senate leader in modern history.