Image Credit Darren Halstead/Unsplash In many ways, Johnson didn’t bail out Democrats from a tough political predicament as much as he did his own Republican members. Share
The outline of the spending agreement House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., cut with Democratic leaders sounds bad on its face. But the underlying reasons for that agreement seem far worse.
As I wrote last week , “Speaker Johnson and Republican ‘leadership’ … bailed the Democrats out of the predicament they put themselves in last May.” To which I should make an important addition: In many ways, Johnson didn’t bail out Democrats from a tough political predicament as much as he did his own Republican members. Because most Republicans don’t want to reduce spending — and they don’t want their constituents to know that either. Dynamics of a ‘Shutdown Showdown ‘
Consider the conventional wisdom regarding so-called “government shutdowns.” (They’re so-called because the essential […]
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