{"id":14680,"date":"2023-06-05T17:54:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T00:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14680"},"modified":"2023-06-05T18:13:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T01:13:30","slug":"yup-biden-won-the-debt-deal-and-media-right-left-and-other-should-help-make-that-clear-bradcast-652023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14680","title":{"rendered":"Yup. Biden Won the Debt Deal and Media (Right, Left and Other) Should Help Make That Clear: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 6\/5\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Biden-McCarthyBack-Flowers_060523.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">We&#8217;re back! And with good news on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>&#8230;whether the media have been reporting it that way over the past week, as we&#8217;ve been on a break, or not. [<em>Audio link to full show follows below this summary.<\/em>]\n<p><i>FIRST UP<\/i>, some notable quick news headlines today &#8212; and some from last week &#8212; which we&#8217;ll undoubtedly jump deeper into in the days and weeks ahead. Including&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cartoonishly corrupt Republican Attorney General of <b>Texas<\/b>, <b>Ken Paxton<\/b>, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2023\/05\/27\/ken-paxton-impeached-texas-attorney-general\/\">impeached<\/a> by the hard-right Texas legislature.<\/li>\n<li>Cartoonishly corrupt Republican activist and pretend journalist <b>James O&#8217;Keefe<\/b> is <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3oLzKyM\">sued<\/a> by Project Veritas &#8212; his own ironically named nonprofit &#8212; for waste, fraud and abuse.<\/li>\n<li>A bunch of new Republicans entered the fray for the 2024 Presidential nod (the unhung <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/06\/05\/pence-files-paperwork-to-run-for-president-00100204\"><b>Mike Pence<\/b><\/a>, the disgraced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2023-06-05\/chris-christie-can-t-win-the-gop-nomination-but-he-can-hurt-donald-trump\"><b>Chris Christie<\/b><\/a> and some guy named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/north-dakotas-burgum-showcases-hes-new-leader-changing-economy-teases-expected-2024-launch\"><b>Doug Burgum<\/b><\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>One Republican, popular <b>New Hampshire<\/b> Gov. <b>Chris Sununu<\/b>, smartly <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sununu-president-republican-trump-0dec43763e6c1fa7843570e68ae209c2\">announces<\/a> he&#8217;s <i>not<\/i> running.<\/li>\n<li>And progressive activist and academic <b>Cornel West<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/cornel-west-president-campaign_n_647e0f48e4b02325c5e22559?utm_campaign=share_twitter&#038;ncid=engmodushpmg00000004\">announces<\/a> he&#8217;s running for President under a third-party banner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>THEN<\/i>, its on to the one story that made me wish I <i>wasn&#8217;t<\/i> on vacation last week (well, a little, anyway.) And that&#8217;s the story of <b>President Biden<\/b> outfoxing the GOP to take three Republican-engineered fiscal cliffs off the table over the next two years, all for the price of less than one, in his ingenious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/house-bill\/3746\/text#toc-HA4158AF57CA04F90AE6B7E95FBFD01FB\">debt ceiling deal<\/a> with House Speaker <b>Kevin McCarthy<\/b>&#8230;who got hosed in the bargain.<\/p>\n<p>As you may know, we were all in favor of Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14546\">avoiding negotiations<\/a> entirely, invoking the <a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/browse\/amendment-14\/section-4\/\">14th Amendment<\/a> to declare the dumb Debt Ceiling law unconstitutional, and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14662\">ordering<\/a> the Treasury Department to simply pay our bills without disruption to avoid a first-ever U.S. default. If anyone had a prob with that, they could sue him &#8212; or try to &#8212; in order to force the global economy meltdown that would have come with such a default.<\/p>\n<p>But Biden, and his lead negotiator, <b>Steve Richetti<\/b>, came up with a <i>much<\/i> better idea. In the bargain, they took not one, not two, but <i>three<\/i> GOP fiscal cliffs off the table for the price of less than one budget negotiation this fall. And it all would have been much more difficult if Biden <i>had<\/i> taken the leverage of invoking the 14th <i>off<\/i> the table.<\/p>\n<p>In short (much more detail on today&#8217;s show), the President outfoxed Republicans. Bigly. And where they had demanded some 18% in cuts to government spending, they got a measly 0.2% over the next ten years. In the bargain, the Debt Ceiling is suspended until 2025 and spending will largely stay flat over the next two years on a few non-defense matters.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake. There are some cuts in the deal that suck. But nothing more than Biden would have been forced to give away anyway in order to avoid a protracted Government shutdown with obstructionist Republicans when a new budget would be needed at the beginning of the next fiscal year this October.<\/p>\n<p>As British columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/jun\/04\/so-what-if-biden-trips-up-on-the-political-stage-his-footwork-is-the-fanciest-seen-in-decades\">Will Hutton correctly opined<\/a> on Sunday, while &#8220;It is easy to write off President Joe Biden as a senile, 80-year-old duffer,&#8221; the deal was &#8220;massively weighted in his favour&#8221; and represented an &#8220;extraordinary victory&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame that so many in the U.S. media &#8212; on the Right, Left and Other &#8212; seem incapable of reporting it that way, in order to properly educate the American electorate about what <i>actually<\/i> just happened.<\/p>\n<p>We try to balance the scales a bit on that score on today&#8217;s program before opening the phones to callers in the second half of the show to hear why they believe we might be wrong about all of this. (<i>SPOILER ALERT: We&#8217;re not!<\/i>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-BidenWonDebtDeal-Callers_060523.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back! 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