Personal to Freedom Caucus: Those Contradictions Won’t Heighten Themselves!

The amazing thing is that if you spend time reading about politics on the internets you’ll encounter plenty of people who think Pelosi and Schumer should be dumped in favor of people who would use the idiotic tactics that are completely failing when conservatives are using them:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) secured nearly $5 billion in new domestic spending by exploiting disagreements between Trump and GOP lawmakers over spending priorities.

Democrats’ lopsided victory on the five-month deal, which is likely to be approved this week, means it will be very difficult — if not impossible — for the GOP to exert its will in future budget negotiations, including when it comes to Trump’s 2018 budget blueprint.

That’s because Republicans are hopelessly divided over how much to spend on government programs, with a small but vocal minority unwilling to support such measures at all. That has forced Republicans to work with Democrats to avoid politically damaging government shutdowns.

And that means Democrats are in the driver’s seat when it comes to budget battles, even with Trump in the White House.

It’s possible that a more competent and experienced Republican in the White House would have gotten a better deal, but I doubt it. What Republican president would be a more effective vote assembler than Ryan and McConnell?

At any rate, let me reaffirm that I strongly approve of heighten-the-contradictions and all-or-nothing tactics…when they’re used by the right. One of those people who think that if Obama had threatened to pass single payer with 15 votes in the Senate he would have at least gotten an all-ages Medicare buy-in should give the tactic a catchy name like “Overton Window” so Republicans can convince themselves that it’s totally supported by social science.