Calmes: In the debt limit showdown, both Biden and (surprise!) McCarthy are winners (via latimesopinion )
The handcuffs that House Republicans have put on Speaker McCarthy will make it almost impossible for him to sign off on a debt ceiling compromise.
Apparently he’s more wily than we knew. Consider: McCarthy and other Republicans taunted Biden for weeks, first for refusing to negotiate, then for his retreat. And once there was a deal, McCarthy — to sell it — boasted to Republicans that the biggest concession he extracted from the president was getting him to talk. At the White House, the president had to be smiling.
Yet McCarthy ultimately shone as well. The bill is hardly the “transformational” legislation he claims, but, hey, if that hyperbole gives Republicans some political cover for their support, I won’t quibble. He chose as his chief deputies in the negotiations two of the most pragmatic and politically skilled Republicans in the House, Reps. Patrick T. McHenry of North Carolina and Garret Graves of Louisiana.
McCarthy showed some legislating chops. For example, hours after the deal came together over the weekend, he took pains tothat it included a pet provision of Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, one of the House’s most right-wing members. Massie ended up being the deciding vote Tuesday in the Rules Committee to send the bill to the full House.“reckoning”As for the saga’s big loser: That was former President Trump.
McCarthy shouldn’t get credit for compromising in a standoff he shouldn’t have provoked in the first place. But I have to give it to him.
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