Comments on: McCarthy's Opening Budget Bid Nothing But Vague Spin http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/03/28/mccarthys-opening-budget-bid-nothing-but-vague-spin/ Reality-based political commentary Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:06:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: andygaus http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/03/28/mccarthys-opening-budget-bid-nothing-but-vague-spin/#comment-202439 andygaus Thu, 30 Mar 2023 02:21:29 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=23361#comment-202439 I wonder if McCarthy or anybody on the Republican side thinks that if they fail to raise the debt ceiling, everyone will blame Biden for the horrific results. I wonder if McCarthy or anybody on the Republican side thinks that if they fail to raise the debt ceiling, everyone will blame Biden for the horrific results.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/03/28/mccarthys-opening-budget-bid-nothing-but-vague-spin/#comment-202437 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 29 Mar 2023 22:48:38 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=23361#comment-202437 <i>So while McCarthy's letter hilariously ends with him sternly demanding: "Mr. President, simply put: you are on the clock.... Please have your team reach out to mine by the end of this week to set a date for our next meeting," it would be an entirely meaningless thing to do. Kevin McCarthy's Republicans are anything but unified in what they want to see in this year's budget. They're not going to get unified any time soon, either.</i> Well, why not meet with the Speaker, anyways ... if only to show in dramatic fashion how discombobulated the <b>Republican cult of economic failure</b> actually is, still! That should be worth something! So while McCarthy's letter hilariously ends with him sternly demanding: "Mr. President, simply put: you are on the clock.... Please have your team reach out to mine by the end of this week to set a date for our next meeting," it would be an entirely meaningless thing to do. Kevin McCarthy's Republicans are anything but unified in what they want to see in this year's budget. They're not going to get unified any time soon, either.

Well, why not meet with the Speaker, anyways ... if only to show in dramatic fashion how discombobulated the Republican cult of economic failure actually is, still! That should be worth something!

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/03/28/mccarthys-opening-budget-bid-nothing-but-vague-spin/#comment-202436 nypoet22 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:21:47 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=23361#comment-202436 How DARE you refuse to debate me over the budget i haven't sent you with the terms i haven't included... How DARE you refuse to debate me over the budget i haven't sent you with the terms i haven't included...

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