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Re: Damning Report Describes How Aides Shielded ‘Declining’ Biden From Scrutiny |
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Posted by AlM on Sat Dec 21 19:14:46 2024, in response to Re: Damning Report Describes How Aides Shielded ‘Declining’ Biden From Scrutiny, posted by Easy on Sat Dec 21 18:23:42 2024. How would you describe what happened in a factual way?1. Johnson and Jeffries reached an agreement after weeks of discussion. Each leader consulted with his party's members. It is inconceivable that Johnson kept Trump in the dark about this - they talk on a regular basis and Johnson would want Trump's buy-in. 2. They reached agreement on a deal and each was confident they could deliver a reasonable number of votes - enough to easily exceed the 218 needed. 3. They announced the deal. 4. Trump and Musk suddenly loudly opposed it, issuing threats against any Republican who would vote for it. So Johnson yanked it. 5. Johnson announces a version 2, with no consultation with the Democrats at all. It fails, because no Democrats vote for it and not enough Republicans do. 6. Johnson and Jeffries have some kind of discussion as to what Democrats might accept. The Democrats get far less in this version 3 than they got in version 1. So they've been successfully flimflammed. Why do the Democrats support version 3? It has way less for them than the version 1 that they agreed to with Johnson. There's only 1 reason. Because it's better for the country than a shutdown. Not a single Democrat votes against version 3. You can't say that for the Republicans. |
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