Commentary
The Joe Biden-Kevin McCarthy debt ceiling dance entered a new phase Tuesday.
President Biden continued to stonewall and insist on an unamended debt ceiling increase (as I wrote in a previous column, calling Biden’s plan “clean” is totally misleading.
Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin accurately characterized the Biden position as “It’s not rational, it’s not reasonable, it’s not practical.”
To reemphasize how stubborn President Biden was going to be ahead of the meeting Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said “that’s what the President is going to be making clear about. This is not negotiable. Default is not negotiable.”…