Mastodawn

The Rude Pundit Jan 4, 2023

Seriously, pick off a half-dozen Republicans, ⁦@HouseDemocrats⁩. Promise them great committee seats. Destroy the GOP majority while it’s down. https://theintercept.com/2023/01/04/kevin-mccarthy-government-shutdown-debt-ceiling/

Kevin McCarthy Must Commit to Government Shutdown Over Raising Debt Ceiling, Says Freedom Caucus Holdout

Rep. Ralph Norman, a South Carolina Republican, said the debt ceiling fight is a “non-negotiable item.”

The Intercept

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The Rude Pundit Jan 5, 2023

As @ThePlumLineGS said,
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RT @ThePlumLineGS
The 18 House Republicans from Biden districts are the key here. Congressional expert @bindersab tells me that an effective discharge petition strategy could "put a lot of pressure on those Republicans to defect and join the Democrats."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/03/kevin-mccarthy-in-trouble-speaker-maga-freedom-caucus/
https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1610368700825174020

Kevin McCarthy’s disastrous travails show Democrats must defang MAGA

To minimize the damage of a MAGA-fied GOP House, Democrats have to get creative.

The Washington Post

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Toxteth O'Grady

@rudepundit If the Republicans are already identified, Democrats should be looking to one to become a possible Speaker candidate in exchange for promises not to shut the government down, not to use the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip and not to remove Democrats from committees. If they feel really good about coming up with a working coalition, they could even shut down the promised investigations before they start...