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In reply to the discussion: Democrats respond to GOP calls for debt ceiling negotiations: No [View all]PSPS
(15,325 posts)17. They have no power to demand anything. None at all.
1. It would be they alone who would be blamed for crashing the world economy.
2. Their billionaire paymasters/financiers won't allow them to do it, and it is those billionaires' tune that they really dance to.
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Democrats respond to GOP calls for debt ceiling negotiations: No [View all]
LetMyPeopleVote
Jan 2023
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Here is President Biden's and the Senate Democrats' offer to McCarthy and the Freedom Caucus
LetMyPeopleVote
Jan 2023
#6
This is the exact right posture. No negotiations, only a clean debt ceiling bill is acceptable.
tritsofme
Jan 2023
#8
No. "In exchange for not crashing the United States economy, you get nothing," one Dem senator said
Hekate
Jan 2023
#13
What ?!?!?! ""Somebody needs to take Josh out behind the woodshed for a little talk...""
TeamProg
Jan 2023
#36
Perfect response. It's up to the House to fix this manufactured problem.
Hermit-The-Prog
Jan 2023
#25
The problem they always run into with their hostage schemes to "get their way"
GoodRaisin
Jan 2023
#35
Give 'em the same answer as the US Army General at Bastogne gave the Germans ....."NUTS".
Elwood P Dowd
Jan 2023
#38