You people are getting as bad as the creeps on DU. You go crazy on shit spouted from the Washington Post or Politico, taking it as gospel and usually ending up with egg on your face. Did you happen to catch the floor speech from McConnel, shown here on FR? Doesn’t sound like a cave to me.
“You people are getting as bad as the creeps on DU. You go crazy on shit spouted from the Washington Post or Politico, taking it as gospel and usually ending up with egg on your face. Did you happen to catch the floor speech from McConnel, shown here on FR? Doesn’t sound like a cave to me.”
Yeah, I tend to agree it’s more than meets they eye here. This “proposal” came out WAY too fast after Obama’s threat of Social Security withholding - which is the tactic the Republicans knew was going to be played. That’s exactly why the August 2nd date was constantly harped by the administration and eagerly regurgitated in the press: the checks are to arrive on the 3rd.
It’s a bad option that McConnell put forth. He also knows it has no chance of getting support from his own members in the Senate - Rubio, Paul, DeMint, Johnson, Toomey - none of them would support this. At this stage putting forth Democratic proposals knowing they won’t go anywhere is a way to run out the clock. It’ll make everyone chew on something for a while that won’t go anywhere.
Watch what they DO, not what they SAY.