Is embracing the suck better than eating a satan sandwich?
by digby
Apparently, that's all that's on offer. And that's with Democrats in the White House and the Senate ...
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told Democratic House members at a meeting Thursday morning to “embrace the suck” and encouraged enough members to back the budget deal on the floor to allow passage, according to an attendee of the meeting.
“We need to get this off the table so we can go forward,” Pelosi told her members, according to someone inside the closed meeting of the caucus.
And most of them did. Pelosi told them holding out for the Unemployment Insurance extension "wasn't worth" holding up the deal. (Hey, congressional Reps need to get home to do their Christmas shopping!)
What this represents is a very savvy manipulation of expectations. Remember when we all rended our garments and pounded our chests over the President's miserly proposed budget and Paul Ryan's dystopian hellscape? Check out the suck we are all embracing now.
The deal the House agreed to yesterday ended up $1.012 trillion:
See how that works?
No wonder Paul Ryan is smiling.
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