Opinion - Democrats should stop saving the Republicans from themselves

[In It to Win It]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-democrats-stop-saving-republicans-163000336.html

With yet another government shutdown looming, an important question must be addressed: Should Democrats keep bailing out Republicans?

This isn’t hyperbole — it has become a recurring pattern. Republicans’ razor-thin majority in the House, coupled with an unruly coalition unwilling to support raising the debt ceiling or preventing government shutdowns (particularly via stopgap measures like continuing resolutions), has forced Democrats to repeatedly step in and avert impending disaster.

Headlines like “Dems prepare to save another GOP speaker from a shutdown” and “Democrats poised to bail out GOP on spending deal but silent on level of support” illustrate the growing trend.

The latest development comes courtesy of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which is refusing to back President Joe Biden’s request for supplemental disaster aid following this fall’s hurricanes.

In their words: “Congress should not pass a whopping $100 billion unpaid disaster supplemental funding bill — that Democrats will use to cement their own unrelated priorities — in the waning days of Democrat control in Washington…”

As The Hill’s Aris Folley points out, Democratic votes will be needed to push through a stopgap measure and avoid a funding lapse. As usual, Democrats are likely to cooperate and save the holidays. But what happens next year, when Republicans control the presidency, Senate and House, and Democrats are relegated to minority status?

[Deuxcents]

1. Democrats should stop bailing out the Republicans. They wanna govern, let em own it.

They have become used to us bailing them out and they continue to blame us for everything. Representives have one main responsibility and that is to fund the government and yet their vacations, time outs, and other reasons they have for not being at work and doing their jobs cause deadlines to get to last minute rush jobs known as stopgaps or threats of shutdown. They wanna run the country like a business but in the business world, I’m pretty sure, managers would be fired for such irresponsible actions.

[newdeal2]

2. Do it if Trump is willing to concede something meaningful

He talks a lot about his dealmaking abilities. Let him prove it.

[bottomofthehill]

3. What happens if they don't pass it

And do I give a shit

[William Gustafson]

4. It won't matter after Jan. 20th...

It will be all republicans problem, and by the way Trump and his cronies, are going to run things, the economy will be in the trash can by then....