{"id":3996,"date":"2017-09-07T18:15:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T09:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2017-09-07T18:50:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T09:50:40","slug":"trump-draws-line-across-mcconnells-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/trump-draws-line-across-mcconnells-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Draws Line Across McConnell’s Face"},"content":{"rendered":"

As related in the Politico<\/a>, the GOP just got itself Trumped:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

On Wednesday morning, Ryan called the deal floated by Democrats to fund the government and lift the debt ceiling through mid-December as part of a relief package for Hurricane Harvey victims \u201cdisgraceful.\u201d Expecting cover from Trump on their insistence to extend the debt ceiling much longer, Ryan and McConnell instead were abandoned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Long story short: Republicans wanted to extend the debt ceiling for a very long time. \u00a0Democrats wanted eighteen months. \u00a0Both sides wanted to pair this with Harvey relief cash. \u00a0Trump went to the Democrats and got a deal for three months. \u00a0It makes the Democrats bulletproof for the short term. \u00a0Republicans had better get their stuff together for the December showdown. \u00a0This will be their hallmark opportunity to either get on board with the elected President of their own party, or cross the Rubicon in the warmup to the 2018 seasons.<\/p>\n

Trump just punted, not trusting the people supposedly on his own team to carry the ball the right way.<\/p>\n

Good call.<\/p>\n

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Looks Like SOMEBODY Has a Case of the Mondays<\/p><\/div>\n

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As related in the Politico<\/a>, the GOP just got itself Trumped:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

On Wednesday morning, Ryan called the deal floated by Democrats to fund the government and lift the debt ceiling through mid-December as part of a relief package for Hurricane Harvey victims \u201cdisgraceful.\u201d Expecting cover from Trump on their insistence to extend the debt ceiling much longer, Ryan and McConnell instead were abandoned.<\/p>\n

Long story short: Republicans wanted to extend the debt ceiling for a very long time. \u00a0Democrats wanted eighteen months. \u00a0Both sides wanted to pair this with Harvey relief cash. \u00a0Trump went to the Democrats and got a deal … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4001,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}