Winning the debt ceiling fight

While Democrats, starting with Joe Biden, insist that Republicans pass a clean debt limit bill, that won't happen. That ship has left the shipyard. The next thing to determine is how Republicans win this fight. Predictably, Newt Gingrich has some ideas on this.

It starts with proposing something reasonable. Fortunately, the public agrees with reining in government spending. Newt said "Republicans are for a responsible debt ceiling increase – and oppose an irresponsible debt ceiling increase. Passing another debt ceiling increase with no modifications to the current unsustainable spending and projected deficits would clearly be an example of an irresponsible debt ceiling increase."

In this post, I said "if I was advising McCarthy, I'd advise him to walk into that meeting with a set of stipulations that Republicans will take off the table. The statement should say Republicans aren't interested in cutting Social Security or Medicare. Further, it should say that Republicans aren't interested in raising taxes on the middle class."

Sen. John Kennedy, (R-LA), is a smart, reasonable man. He nailed it, in my opinion, in this interview:

Let's return to Newt's op-ed:
The Congressional Budget Office projects current spending would add $15.74 trillion to the deficit from now to 2032. So, it’s clear the current spending model that Democrats have created is totally irresponsible. As CBO has warned since last decade, "the current trajectory of federal borrowing is unsustainable and could lead to slower economic growth in the long run as debt rises as a percentage of GDP."
Biden loves saying that he's "cut the deficit by $350,000,000,000." What he omits when he says that is that his spending caused trillions in spending, which raised the debt and deficits by hundreds of billions of dollars. The public is on Kevin McCarthy's side:
Overwhelmingly, Americans believe government is too large and wasteful and spending can be cut. Gallup found in 2014 that Americans on average think the federal government wastes 51 cents of every dollar.
That was when Obama's 2nd term as president was winding down. They hadn't seen the Biden-Democrat Spending Spree. That wouldn't start until March of 2021. This is important:
It’s clear that most Americans would be with a Republican House and Senate that demanded rational cuts to spending in exchange for the debt limit increase. Biden and the Democrats are simply testing whether they can push around the new Republican House majority.
It's McCarthy's job, along with newly-elected Majority Whip Tom Emmer's job, to keep the GOP together. Without that unity, this fight isn't winnable. With unity, it's unstoppable.

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