The Democratic Party’s extreme-left political nature has historically put them behind Republicans in terms of generic polling. It New York Times insisted it’s the Republicans that are the radicals.
As a member Democratic-leaning snobs make up the Press Corps Times congressional beat reporter Carl Hulse issued a common GOP insult in his story about conservative opposition to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s use of a one-time legislative trick to raise the debt ceiling: Republicans have no interest in governing and are just hard-right nuts who want to sabotage the governing process and the nation’s finances.
Historically, Hulse’s congressional coverage copy is an unbroken stream of encouragement of congressional Democrats, interspersed with self-satisfied stories about Republicans caving into them (when the GOP isn’t unfairly “seizing” on some unimportant issue to make Democrats look bad).
Contained in Friday’s edition, “Pragmatic Agreement On Federal Spending Widens G.O.P. Divide” was no different. The online headline encapsulated the story’s true slant: “Debt Limit Split Shows Pragmatic Republicans Are Dwindling.”
Hulse began by saying the move “reflected the crucial role of the pragmatic wing of the G.O.P.” as well as “how narrow that wing has become, and how willing the majority of Republicans were to use potential fiscal catastrophe as an opening to pummel President Biden and his party.”
Hulse played concern troll with a GOP he’s never treated objectively, throwing out loaded labels and painted one party as solely irresponsible (click “expand”):
[I]n today’s Republican Party, it prompted considerable blowback from Mr. McConnell’s usually unquestioning colleagues. This is an indication of the extent to which party members have strayed away from their original purpose.It reflects an increasing divide within the Republican ranks. This division is expected to grow if Republicans gain control of both the House and Senate next year through the election new members elected from primaries that reward the Republicans. furthest-rightCandidates who are most uncompromising.
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The debt limit is so controversial among conservatives of the hard right, however.Most Republicans rejected the legislation as a proxy of Democratic spending plans. They feared that they would be attacked over Medicare spending and decided to withdraw.
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Problematizing matters further is the fact some of Mr. McConnell’s seasoned Republicans — Senators Roy Blunt in Missouri, Rob Portman in Ohio, and Richard Burr in North Carolina — will be leaving Congress in January. This shrinks the number of people willing to take political risk in order to keep the government in control.
McConnell may be having trouble corralling the members of his Republican conference following 2020 elections which added hard-right Republicans. This will likely become even more difficult once some of his most reliable allies have left, possibly replaced by archconservatives who are antipathy to Trump and willing to fealt him.
Because insulting Republicans is what Hulse does (and since that’s what The Times pays him to do), he ended with another insult directed at the GOP: “Mr. McConnell will have to figure out how to govern with colleagues who seem increasingly uninterested in doing so.”
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