Brutal St. Louis newspaper editorial pleads with Dems to save the country from GOP House 'toddlers'

[UCmeNdc]

According to the editorial board of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the current Democratic majority on the House has a duty to wrap up as much business as it can before the Republicans take over in January with their slim majority planning on launching multiple investigations of the Joe Biden administration instead of dealing with the country's needs.

In a word, the editors referred to the House Republicans under possible House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as "toddlers" who will require constant supervision.

Getting right to the point, the editors wrote, "Just as it’s a good idea to child-proof a home before having toddlers over for a birthday party, congressional Democrats should be doing what they can during the current lame-duck session to prepare for the incoming Republican House majority — a crowd that has literally announced its intention to threaten America’s fiscal stability, block election reforms and abandon Ukraine."

Case in point, they wrote, are plans by Republicans to create chaos by using the debt ceiling as a "tool" to get their way.


https://www.rawstory.com/republican-party-toddlers/

Whole Editorial Here:

https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-congress-needs-some-toddler-proofing-before-the-gop-house-majority-takes-power/article_12a62e41-0606-5d53-97e0-d9dd2ce3475d.html

[Midnight Writer]

1. We should try to raise the debt ceiling now to take it "off the table".

This is a disaster that everyone sees coming. Deal with it now before it gets here.

[Mr.Bill]

6. The problem is, as usual,

Manchin doesn't approve. He says they need to work on the debt ceiling "together" with the republicans because "that's how we've always done it".

[Mad_Machine76]

12. The last few times it's had to be raised

the Republicans threatened to default. What is with his and Sinema's fetishization of bipartisanship (that doesn't really even exist anymore)? It has to just be an act/excuse for obstructionism, right?

[Mr.Bill]

13. It's a bag of excuses.

This is just one of them. Once it's been solved, he pulls another one out of the bag.

[Mad_Machine76]

14. Yup

[vanlassie]

19. Lucy with the football.

[rubbersole]

22. Lucy with sacks of lobbyist's money...

[Gore1FL]

23. It's Constitutionally off-the-table, anyways.

Fourteenth Amendment, Section 4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.

[republianmushroom]

2. LIKE

[Initech]

3. We got to start fighting back against the propaganda.

So many of these shitheads get elected because people keep listening to Fux News and AM radio, and assholes like Hannity and Carlson and keep voting based on what they're told to do. The propaganda is the problem.

[Ray Bruns]

4. The problem is Americans are stupid.

[brush]

7. A good percentage definitely are (see republicans).

[KPN]

10. Well, enough are. As well as racist, misogynist,

radically evangelical, or xenophobic.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Ukraine ...

From the editorial:

Democrats should ensure, now, that Ukraine has all the aid it needs to resist Russia’s aggression, since many Republicans are threatening that aid — apparently having forgotten that America is supposed to stand up against tyranny and for democracy.

[gratuitous]

8. Waitasecond

The Republicans are going to use what little power they have to run the country into the ditch and it's up to the Democrats to save the country? Is that the Post Dispatch's position here? Did they endorse any Republicans in the just-concluded election? Because if they did, they don't get off the hot seat here for setting the country up for catastrophic failure.

[TigressDem]

9. Because if we TRY at least, then we show the REPUKES for who they ARE AGAIN...

Post Dispatch is telling the PUBLIC, LOOK the only people who care about the country are the DEMS.

In 2024 if these irkholes do what they say they are going to do, the public is forewarned and they can switch their votes.


THEIR INVESTIGATIONS ARE ALL NOTHING BURGERS.

We gotta ask the people, AREN'T YOU TIRED of NOTHING BURGERS?

[LuvLoogie]

15. Here's a pre-election editorial.

https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-for-serious-voters-missouris-ballot-offers-an-array-of-unacceptable-choices/article_48845cbb-71de-57ab-b0f9-09a6d91d808f.html

[gratuitous]

18. Thanks for the link

Wow, that's some world class both-sidesing.

[Mad_Machine76]

11. Uh

It's not the Democrats' job to supervise and parent Republicans who shouldn't be elected to the position of Dog Catcher, let alone Congress

[Icanthinkformyself]

16. I thought

the press was supposed to hold the parties accountable and let the public know what the 'children of the right' are whining about today? So, if the Democrats, who can only do so much and have done a great deal of heavy lifting of late, can't control the right wing crazies it's their fault what the results are? How phucked up is that? How about we hold conservatives responsible for whatever damage is done because of their sabotage of America?

[ZonkerHarris]

17. They don't know it but this is the GOP's last chance to govern like grown ups.

[Justice matters.]

20. Yeah, we all remember the last time they held the credit score of the US hostage...

So how about we let these Fascist toddlers hang themselves once again and don't forget to point that out then in September-October-November 2024?

[Ford_Prefect]

21. We could start with arresting Stephen Miller and the rest of Trump's fascist administration

including several members of the House and Senate. It would help give them pause to consider just how far might be too far.

Just Sayin...