They should make Ted Cruz majority leader.
Ted Cruz is a try hard phony and a show boater. There is a reason why Donald Trump kicked his a@% in 2016
Of course he is beloved in the echo chamber conservative media, which allows his stock to creep up constantly because they paint him as a "principled fighter" instead of the craven opportunist that he is. One of the most appealing aspects of Trump in 2016 was that he exposed a lot of these people for what they were.
I remember a time when the conservative alternative was Scott "I just got a call from the Koch brothers so now I am for open borders again" Walker. I remember a time when Paul Ryan was the desired Speaker of the Tea Party types Mark Meadows/Jim Jordan etc. When Marco Rubio was the boy wonder of the GOP post "self-deportation" Romney and even Sean Hannity was endorsing a path to legalization to protect their golden boy in 2013.
These debt ceiling fights are just a shell game to stir up and manipulate people, if their was ever actually a threat of a the debt ceiling being reached, it would never be allowed. Alternatively if there is ever a threat of Democrats growing a spine to actually nuke the filibuster, it would likewise never be allowed. That is why they caved on raising the debt ceiling.
The establishment Republicans, most all of the ex-tea party types and now most of the so called Trumpists are all bought and paid for by the same neoliberal donors and the extent that they are "appearing as fighters for base or standing up to the Democrats" is just kabuki theater cynically allowed by the money types on the promise that doing so will get them back into power to cut more taxes and regulations for them.
The days of yore of a business versus religion or business versus trumpist dynamic is so anachronistic that it serves no valuable purpose. Now that the GOP is completely divorced from needing to win said posh areas and just needs to rake in the dough from select residents in those areas, those people will enable, tolerate and condone virtually anything as long as it gets them power and all the actual policy wins are stuff they want in the end and nothing harmful to the bottom line happens.
Rs users gotten their 300 bonus unemployment and 1400 checks because D's were in the Majority, remember Johnson and Mcconnell blocked it because of the Debt Ceiling , they only approved giving 600=00 but of course Rs used up their Stimulus so they don't need D's
Most of the Debt cones from 1/3rd of our budget not Stimulus and we spent 1=5T each of Bush W and Trump Tax cuts and 8Tbon Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein War on Terror for 20 yrs
Did you know the Green Deal complete transfer from a Fossil Fuels to Electric that's looks like Futurama UTOPIAN SOCIETY was 6T but we spent 8T on two wars on Terror and we bombed Arabs with their own oil to fuel tanks and planes
