Debt-Ceiling Agreement: Vote YES And Call It A Win
Here’s a frank debt-ceiling message for both the ultra-conservatives and the ultra-Marxists in Congress:
Quit your bellyaching.
Elections have consequences and face it, the left lost the House and the right lost the Senate. As a result both parties have to compromise or wreck the country through brinksmanship and stalemate.
What a pity that neither side is happy with the deal brokered by leaders to keep the country from defaulting on its debt. When you’re losers, you don’t get everything you want.
There’s a lesson here that I don’t expect many Republicans to learn: If you want to control the agenda, nominate someone for president who can beat Joe Biden and who won’t get into a snit and tell Georgia voters to stay home when the balance of the Senate is in jeopardy.
Yes, the reason Congress is split is because of Trump.
Reasonable Americans might just decide that if both extremes are unhappy, the agreement may be pretty darn good. Or the best we can hope for.
I do, however, want to go on the record saying that the reason this is being voted on at the last hour is due to the fecklessness of Joe Biden. For 97 days Biden bellowed that he wouldn’t negotiate with the GOP. When the Republicans passed their own bill - the Limit, Save, Grow Act - in April, the belligerent fool in the White House reiterated his stubborn stupidity.
The leftists pulling the president’s strings apparently believed the GOP would blink. To the Republicans’ credit they didn’t. Biden finally came to the bargaining table when the left began to worry that for once, THEY’D be blamed for a default, even if the corporate media - an arm of the DNC - pointed their ink-stained fingers at the the Republicans.
Here’s the Reader’s Digest version of what the debt agreement contains, courtesy of The New York Post:
In addition to raising the debt limit until 2025, the agreement includes a string of spending cuts demanded by Republicans while boosting it for defense and veterans.
The deal would essentially hold spending flat for the 2024 fiscal year, while boosting it for defense and veterans, and capping increases at 1% for 2025.
For the next fiscal year, the bill matches Biden’s proposed defense budget of $886 billion and allots $704 billion for nondefense spending.
Under the agreement, it would fully fund medical care for veterans at the levels included in Biden’s proposed 2024 budget blueprint.
The deal would impose tougher work requirements on government aid recipients for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — formerly known as the food stamp program. It ensures people aged 49 to 54 with food stamp aid would have to meet work requirements if they are able-bodied and without dependents.
It also halts some funds to hire new Internal Revenue Service agents and claws back about $30 billion in unspent COVID-19 relief money that Congress had approved through previous bills.
Assuming the deal passes Congress, it will defy the Democratic narrative that Republicans can’t govern. Mr. McCarthy’s troops are proving they can, and conservatives would be foolish to abandon the victories in this deal.
To the whiners in Congress: Vote yes and shut up. Start winning elections and your party can control the whole enchilada.
