One thing the \"Obama failed\" crowd likes to say is that he failed to negotiate hard enough in this debt ceiling thing, or that he didn't hold firm, or that he caved, or that he didn't make the progressive case strong enough, etc.. But what I've never heard explained is: what could he have actually done?
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\nWhat I hear is:<\/p>\n
But what is the content of step 1 (what words does he use, what are the threats he makes) and, what happens at step 2? Presumably some number of Republican House members and Senators have to break with their party and vote for the PPPPB, but who are these people, and what makes them change their mind? And, not only do they have to break with their party, but the GOP itself has to agree to let the bill out of the House committee so it can be voted on at all; so it's not like you have to get X random GOP reps to vote for it, you need leadership votes. So, you need the big guns in the House GOP to break with their party. And, you need a sufficient number of GOP Senators to break the filibuster threat in the Senate.<\/p>\n
So, how does that work?<\/p>\n
What happens at step two to convince the GOP - who could barely be persuaded to vote for what the self-described liberal base is calling a huge GOP win - to vote for a bill that makes progressives happy ?<\/p>\n
Can someone explain this to me? Please?<\/p>\n
And, no I don't want to hear about the fucking 14th<\/sup> amendment. This question is about the \"he should've negotiated harder!\" complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One thing the \"Obama failed\" crowd likes to say is that he failed to negotiate hard enough in this debt ceiling thing, or that he didn't hold firm, or that he caved, or that he didn't make the progressive case strong enough, etc.. But what I've never heard explained is: what could he have actually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}