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Originally Posted by finnbow
I am all for cutting spending and negotiations/legislation leading to that goal. However, threatening to not extend the debt limit is not negotiating. It is extortion, plain and simple, with the credit worthiness of the US on the line. This stunt, if allowed to go to fruition, will cost the country and its citizens far more that it will purport to save.
Idiocy.
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This "stunt" is an effort to negotiate. You could also call refusing to negotiate a "stunt". It's a political strategy being pursued by the Dems, but you want to make it sound like Biden and company are "standing on principle". They're not, and you're deluding yourself for thinking that they are.