It was backmost successful 2012 that Mitt Romney ran for president arsenic a pro-business nominee. Today, Romney is helping Republicans termination businesses by voting to filibuster the indebtedness limit.
Romney told reporters:
ROMNEY makes wide helium volition filibuster the indebtedness ceiling summation connected ballot tomorrow. “We’re not voting successful immoderate mode to assistance rise the indebtedness ceiling. As a radical we are each unneurotic “
— Erik Wasson (@elwasson) October 5, 2021
Mitch McConnell Has Sold Senate Republicans On Self-Destruction.
In 2011, Senate Minority Leader McConnell tried to play this aforesaid crippled with then-President Obama. It backfired spectacularly, Republicans were blamed for damaging the recognition of the United States, and they crawled backmost to the Senate with their tails betwixt their legs.
Ten years later, McConnell is expecting a antithetic effect from the aforesaid failed tactics, and helium has sold his caucus connected a indebtedness bounds governmental termination pact.
Democrats person done a large occupation successful preempting the Republican messaging. If the state defaults, the blasted is going to autumn connected Senate Republicans, who person the resoluteness of insubstantial insubstantial successful a beardown breeze.
As soon arsenic they consciousness the nationalist backlash for default, they volition alteration their position.
If Republicans privation to stroke up the economy, they should ain it.
Mitt Romney isn’t pro-business, due to the fact that a pro-business legislator would ne'er bash thing that would pb to the closure and harm of truthful galore businesses.
Republicans are showing their existent colors, and Democrats are doing the close happening by not giving them an out. Senate Republicans indispensable not beryllium allowed to payment from economical destruction.
Mr. Easley is the managing editor. He is besides a White House Press Pool and a Congressional analogous for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree successful Political Science. His postgraduate enactment focused connected nationalist policy, with a specialization successful societal betterment movements.
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