{"id":1929422,"date":"2023-05-12T02:55:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T06:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-dems-position-on-the-debt-ceiling-is-nonsensical\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T03:01:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T07:01:12","slug":"the-dems-position-on-the-debt-ceiling-is-nonsensical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-dems-position-on-the-debt-ceiling-is-nonsensical\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem\u2019s stance on debt ceiling is illogical."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-dems-position-on-the-debt-ceiling-is-nonsensical%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1929422&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Debt Ceiling Debate: The White House Press Secretary&#8217;s Flawed Analogy<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIf you buy a car,\u201d White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre explained the other day, \u201cyou are expected to pay the monthly payment. \u2026 It\u2019s that simple.\u201d But is it really that simple? Those who argue that the president can cancel millions of student loans by decree aren\u2019t in a position to offer lessons on personal responsibility. The deeper problem with Jean-Pierre\u2019s analogy, though, is that there isn\u2019t a bank on Earth that\u2019s going to keep lines of credit open when a person is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-dems-position-on-the-debt-ceiling-is-nonsensical\/\" title=\"Dem\u2019s stance on debt ceiling is illogical.\">compounding unsustainable debt year<\/a> after year.<\/p>\n<h3>The Federal Government&#8217;s Debt Limit<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking of unsustainable debt, the federal government has already hit the debt limit. The Treasury Department is now relying on \u201cextraordinary measures\u201d that will sputter out by June, at which time we will all be forced to forage for food and barter for medicine. The only thing that can save us from this dystopian hellscape, Jean-Pierre explains, is for Congress to do its \u201cjob\u201d and return to regular order.<\/p>\n<p>The White House press secretary is apparently unaware that regular order would entail Senate Democrats passing a bill and then negotiating with House Republicans, who have already passed a bill raising the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion into 2024. Until this week, Democrats wouldn\u2019t even talk to Republicans on the matter.<\/p>\n<h3>The New York Times&#8217; Editorial Board&#8217;s Pretense<\/h3>\n<p>In the old days, this kind of absolutist position would have every newspaper wringing its hands about GOP \u201cobstructionism\u201d and the dysfunction of the political system. Today, outlets like The New York Times simply pretend Republican bills are apparitions. \u201cAre Republicans Willing to Raise the Debt Ceiling?\u201d asks the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shocker-amazons-a-hypocrite-on-mail-in-ballots\/\" title=\"Shocker\u2013Amazon\u2019s a Hypocrite on Mail-in Ballots\">editorial board<\/a> this week. Does the Times not know that the GOP has already agreed to lift the ceiling?<\/p>\n<p>They pretend it isn\u2019t real because it includes \u201cdeep cuts in federal spending\u201d (by which they mean a return to last year\u2019s discretionary spending levels, with no cuts moving forward), the reversal of \u201cinvestments in tax enforcement\u201d (80,000 new IRS cops monitoring, among other things, Venmo accounts with more than $600), a rollback of some \u201cgreen energy\u201d boondoggles, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>And anyway, the Times notes, Biden has offered Republicans \u201ca reasonable path to resolve the standoff\u201d in which the GOP raises the ceiling without any conditions as Democrats demand and then Biden will \u201cseparately negotiate measures to slow the growth of the federal debt.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Need for Responsible Budgeting<\/h3>\n<p>Even The New York Times concedes that Washington is \u201cliving beyond its means.\u201d So, then, why is it more \u201creasonable\u201d to negotiate the slowing of spending now, when the ceiling is in view, than a month from now or a year from now when there is no incentive to do anything? Majority Leader Chuck Schumer won\u2019t negotiate, and it\u2019s clear that President Biden is now pondering invoking the 14th Amendment and simply ignoring the debt ceiling much in the way he ignores the law on a slew of other issues.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats spend their time blaming GOP administration for the preponderance of our debt \u2014 most of which Joe Biden has voted for as a senator or helped shepherd through in the executive branch. No one is innocent on that front, of course, but most of our debt is propelled by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-democrats-debt-ceiling-position-makes-zero-sense\/\" title=\"Democrats' stance on debt ceiling is senseless.\">constantly expanding entitlement programs<\/a>, which are treated with a reverence by the left that the Constitution can never attain. But even if the GOP were culpable for every single dollar of debt and were engaged in blatant hypocrisy, it wouldn\u2019t change the fact that they are objectively correct today in arguing that we need to slow spending and mitigate debt. The arguments used to oppose even a modicum of responsible budgeting do not make any sense.<\/p>\n<p>David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abandoned-all-pretense-of-being-conservative-jonah-goldberg-joins-cnn-as-a-commentator-social-media-erupts\/\" title=\"\u2018Abandoned All Pretense Of Being Conservative\u2019: Jonah Goldberg Joins CNN As A Commentator, Social Media Erupts\">nationally syndicated columnist<\/a>, a Happy Warrior columnist at National Review, and author of five books\u2014the most recent, Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent. Follow him on Twitter, @davidharsanyi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share Share Article on Facebook Share Article on Twitter Share Article on Truth Social Copy Article Link Share Article via Email \u201cIf you buy a car,\u201d White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre explained the other day, \u201cyou are expected to pay the monthly payment. \u2026 It\u2019s that simple.\u201d Is it? Now, obviously, those who argue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1929423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[10142,5487,3933,26564,15427],"class_list":["post-1929422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-ceiling","tag-debt","tag-dems","tag-illogical","tag-stance"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}