The details on the size of the dump that Trump took on Ryan’s head yesterday are still coming out:
President Trump and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) have agreed to pursue a deal that would permanently remove the requirement that Congress repeatedly raise the debt ceiling, three people familiar with the decision said.
Trump and Schumer discussed the idea Wednesday during an Oval Office meeting. The two, along with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D–Calif.), agreed to work together over the next several months to try to finalize a plan, which would need to be approved by Congress.
One of the people familiar described it as a “gentlemen’s agreement.”
The debt ceiling is the kind of stupidity that Ryan venerates and Trump sees, rightly, as standing between him and stuff he wants. Why not team up with Pelosi and Schumer, who have a track record of delivering their caucuses, to get rid of it?
In general, Trump knows the ratings on the Donald J Trump show will be even worse if he can’t deliver hurricane aid quickly. Ryan and McConnell came to the table with a bill that would pass only after days of debate, during which the Freedumb Caca would run their dumb mouths about how people in Houston should just bow before the will of God and pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Maybe Trump got rolled by Pelosi and Schumer, but I think he just saw a way to get what he wanted quickly and cleanly, and he took it. He also wanted to give Mitch and Paul a swift kick over the Obamacare repeal fuckup, and they got it.
Who knows if a debt ceiling repeal will really happen, but it’s still nice to see Ryan and McConnell getting some of Trump’s medicine.
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