GOP senators make a powerful case against GOP control of the House

[Zorro]

House Republicans are furious at their GOP counterparts in the Senate for making a deal with Democrats to avert a debt limit crisis. Those House lawmakers think GOP senators should be making it much harder for Democrats to prevent us from blowing through the debt limit, even though that would mean the United States would default on its debts.

That by itself makes a strong case against letting Republicans gain control of the House, since it means House Republicans actively want to weaponize the threat of economic meltdown, which could lead to catastrophe. And as it happens, two GOP senators have confirmed this very neatly for us.

All this comes in a Politico piece reporting that tensions are high between Republicans in the two chambers, because GOP leaders in the Senate made a deal with Democratic leaders to resolve the latest debt limit standoff.

Under this complex deal, the Senate will vote to create a mechanism to allow the debt limit to be raised for a temporary period via a simple majority vote. This would mean Republicans couldn’t filibuster it, as they did last time (before caving and letting Democrats temporarily deal with it).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/08/senate-vs-house-republicans-on-debt-limit/

[elleng]

1. tensions are high between Republicans in the two chambers,

[BlueWavePsych]

4. Good job ...

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Just goes to show Republicans CANNOT govern...

Nor have the desire to even try. Which was evident as to why John Boehner and Paul Ryan failed.

Perhaps there are a few Republican Senators who realize that if the country were to default, there would be a Depression worse than what FDR faced, send the World Markets into a Depression, all while trying to BLAME Democrats for it.

Saviors of the Economy? Hardly! Got AUSTERITY?

[DFW]

3. Although there are way too many parties here, one thing is much better

The make-up of the national legislature reflects national party support accurately, and no state or municipality can deny any citizen the right to vote.

How ironic that Germany, one of the world’s most evil dictatorships just 80 years ago, and a country whose current democracy was only allowed to be built under our very own watchful eye, has a Congress far more fairly representative of its voters than we do. In Germany, if you are a German citizen and 18 or over, you can vote. Period. Every citizen gets their voter registration in the mail before each election. And if some party gets 38% of the vote in a national election, they will have 38% of the voting members in the Bundestag, their main national legislative body. No gerrymandered states with 58% of the voters Democrats but 65% of their House members Republicans. No states that can pass laws forbidding (de facto) citizens from voting because they tend to vote “for the other guy.” It is not only a theoretical impossibility, it is a structural impossibility.

While there is much to criticize about how many parts of Germany (mal-)function, the system for assuring voting rights and accurate parliamentary representation of the voters’ true wishes cannot be perverted the way the Republicans are blatantly perverting ours, even as they deny it every step of the way.

They do what we say. Why can’t we do as they do?