Washington remains divided over process as debt limit nears

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For a second week in a row, process — not policy or substance — is dominating the political discussion in the nation’s capital.

WASHINGTON —

This week, the process debate is over how Senate Democrats should raise the debt limit without cooperation from Republicans.“Republicans just have to let us do our job. Just get out of the way,” Biden said yesterday.“Now, they’ve got no problem using the party-line process over and over and over to spend trillions and transform the country,” McConnell said of Senate Democrats.

“The party in power gets the blame when things go bad; get credit when things go well. Doesn’t mean they always deserve either. But, voters don’t care about process,” the Cook Political Report’s Amy WalterBut also make no mistake here: McConnell is playing politics — and sowing chaos — with the debt limit.

Yet if Democrats really want to get back at McConnell, the way to do so isn’t to hold firm on insisting a simple up-or-down vote.

 

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It's fun to have a front-row seat to watch our media fail once again. 2 years from now, they'll be able to pull the old 'report some costs annually and others over the full 10 years', and we will all complain and nothing will change

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