The contrast is clear between the unassuming #JoeBiden, who sometimes stumbles and lets others do the talking, and #DarkBrandon, who just scored a strategic victory with the #debtceiling deal. Biden is now positioned for another contrast--between his vision of government that works with the insanity of the GOP primary.

"Yes, we have (fingers crossed) avoided a dreaded default. Which is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Meanwhile, the U.S. government, prodded by House Republicans, has spent the past few months beclowning itself before the rest of the world."

~ Catherine Rampell

#Republicans #DebtCeiling #beclowning

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/28/debt-limit-deal-budget-differences/

"President Biden won and Donald Trump/MAGA lost—again. It’s that simple when it comes to the debt ceiling deal announced Saturday night.

Keep in mind Trump was demanding a debt ceiling default because he wants to tank our strong economy given he believes it helps him win in 2024."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Biden #Trump #DebtCeiling

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/the-debt-ceiling-deal-was-a-big-win

"You know, normal crazy GOP kind of stuff. The kind that doesn’t have a bomb attached to it."

#Biden #DebtCeiling
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Jay Kuo reads the debt ceiling deal as a big win for Biden.

He writes,

"The fact that some of the 'Freedom' Caucus are already infuriated is a very good sign that Biden did a great job under the circumstances. If we can put the debt ceiling threat behind us, that will force the GOP back to its standard, more contained pattern of investigating Hunter Biden and playing the victims of government overreach and witch-hunts."

#Biden #DebtCeiling
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https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/whats-the-big-deal

“The Trump tax cuts and Trump's increased spending even before the pandemic ultimately added $7.8 trillion to the national debt, about $23,500 for every person in the country. The increase in the annual deficit under Trump was the third-biggest increase of any administration, relative to the size of the economy.”

#Trump #DebtCeiling #TaxCuts #default #Republicans

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-23-2023

"'It's not their money': older Americans worried debt default means no Social Security.

'It's very stressful, gives me a heart attack,' Fred Gurner, 86, told ABC News."

#DebtCeiling #default #Republicans

https://abcnews.go.com/US/older-americans-worried-debt-default-means-social-security/story?id=99506742

"It is up to President Biden to protect the nation and avert the chaos Trump is aiming for. And in the months ahead, it is up to sane middle America to speak, act, organize, and vote to ensure that Trump does not get the second term for whose sake he is eager to see the economy crash."

#Trump #default #DebtCeiling #Republicans #chaos #Biden
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Dennis Aftergut writes,

"Keep in mind, too, Trump’s glaring hypocrisy here: This is the self-described 'King of Debt' who spent like a drunken sailor during his four years in office, raising the national debt by $7.8 trillion.

He’s not in it to keep America safe from overspending. He’s in it for himself."

#Trump #default #DebtCeiling #Republicans #chaos
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https://www.thebulwark.com/why-trump-wants-u-s-to-default-on-debt/

Charlie Sykes writes,

"As the nation teeters toward an objectively insane debt default, it’s worth keeping in mind that this is exactly what the GOP’s leading candidate fpr president has endorsed."

Then he quotes Donald Trump's ACTUAL WORDS calling for Republicans to push the US over the default cliff. Though, as he notes, when Trump was in the White House, he said the debt ceiling shouldn't be used as a negotiating wedge.

#DebtCeiling #Default #Trump #Republicans
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https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/foxs-latest-hoax

“If the GOP hoped a near debt ceiling breach would cause Obama to lose in 2012, they were obviously mistaken. That means the lesson to MAGA—given their extremism—is not to bring the nation to the brink of default, but to actually cause one.”

#DebtCeiling #GOP #USpol #USpolitics

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/pres-biden-is-right-maga-wants-to

Gifted wapo - Jennifer Rubin on the #debtceiling

https://wapo.st/45pvqpE

Gifted wapo - Jennifer Rubin in the #debtceiling

https://wapo.st/45pvqpE

“In other words, there are a number of GOP extremists who would happily blow up the economy because it is actually chaos that they want, and they believe they can pin that chaos on President Biden. Or if they can’t, they still think they personally can benefit from it, so let it burn.”

#USpol #USpolitics #DebtCeiling #GOP

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-week-in-review-focus-on-the-debt

"In other words, there are a number of GOP extremists who would happily blow up the economy because it is actually chaos that they want, and they believe they can pin that chaos on President Biden. Or if they can’t, they still think they personally can benefit from it, so let it burn."

Chaos and destruction serve Republican ends because they soften us for autocratic solutions, and they'd explode Biden's chances to be re-elected.

#Biden #Republicans #DebtCeiling #Default #EconomicTerrorism
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Jay Kuo explains why he has changed his mind about insisting Biden should not negotiate with the Republican debt ceiling terrorists:

"Rachael Bitcofer posted an observation that made me reconsider this position:

'Folks, Biden can't call their bluff because Republicans aren't bluffing.

Total economic collapse is a feature, not a bug, to McCarthy's MAGA majority. They'd love to see it.'"

#Biden #Republicans #DebtCeiling #Default #EconomicTerrorism
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https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-week-in-review-focus-on-the-debt

It's critical to understand the historical roots of the #DebtCeiling crisis. Two links here. A short video clip and a deep-dive by @davetroy

https://youtu.be/mZ6cxJ-0GnI

https://washingtonspectator.org/paranoia-on-parade/

"The fate of the global economy now rests in the hands of the grown-ups inside the Biden administration and the tantrum-prone children who populate the House Republican caucus.

This is not a fair fight. One side is happy to defecate on the floor. The other side has no choice but to clean up the mess."

#Republicans #DebtCeiling #default
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"They say that negotiating with a toddler is like a hostage situation: only one side of the discussion wants to defuse the crisis.

Welcome to Washington in the post-Trump era, as the United States stares down the barrel of debt default.

The US debt ceiling crisis is more proof of Republicans’ cynicism and bad faith."

~Richard Wolffe

#Republicans #DebtCeiling #default
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/19/republicans-trump-debt-ceiling-crisis

"Imagine what would happen if the shoe was on the other foot—that a Democratic-controlled House majority was threatening to push the country into default unless a Republican president consented to a massive increase of the welfare state. It’s hard to imagine journalists referring to liberal hostage-taking as merely 'the ordinary stuff of politics.'”

#DebtCeiling #Media #MediaFail
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