Brian Schatz FTW, telling Republicans they don't get a cookie for not crashing the economy [View all]

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From the Daily Beast, yesterday:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/democrats-take-hard-line-on-debt-limit-talks-absolutely-not?ref=home

“In exchange for not crashing the United States economy, you get nothing,” Schatz said in an interview with The Daily Beast. “You don't get a cookie. You don't get to be treated like you're the second coming of LBJ. You're just a person doing the bare minimum of not intentionally screwing over your constituents for insane reasons.”

The moment Democrats invite Republicans to the negotiating table over a debt-limit deal, Schatz argued, is the moment the situation gets dangerous.

“We have to tell them there is no table,” he said. “The one thing that is more dangerous than staring these guys down is not staring these guys down. Because if this becomes a tactic that works, it will never, ever end.”