I'll 'Sip My Tea': Jasmine Crockett Lights Up 'Unproductive' GOP Amid Spending Bill Chaos
Source: Huff Post
Dec 19, 2024, 04:28 AM EST | Updated 4 hours ago
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) called out Republicans for their part in the “most unproductive Congress” on Wednesday after Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump paraded House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) stopgap spending bill into chaos.
“We’re looking at this like this is their problem,” Crockett told MSNBC’s Alex Wagner.
She later continued, “Here’s the deal — there is no fixing this without the Democrats. We have seen this over and over and I’m just going to sit back and sip my tea and wait on them to figure it out.”
Trump, in a joint statement with Vice President-elect JD Vance on Wednesday, knocked a bipartisan budget deal that would have averted a government shutdown before funding expires on Friday.
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Well now there WAS one who did that - https://www.mprnews.org/story/2008/09/26/a-bad-day-for-the-gop-on-politics-bailout-plan
Left to right: Republican presidential candidate John McCain, House Minority Leader John Boehner, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President George W. Bush, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama meet at the White House Thursday to discuss the Wall Street bailout proposal.
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(during the bailout talks with Paulson in 2008 
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that Obama was pretty aggressive both before the election and just after due to the economic collapse that he ended up inheriting (and it was dramatic when compared to how McCain was handling it). And his forward-thinking and engagement during his campaign and through his first year, resulted in his getting that Nobel Peace Prize that 45 whines about! 
But specifically - here is something from the NYT that illustrates it at the time when Obama was President-elect -
By Jeff Zeleny
Nov. 24, 2008
CHICAGO President-elect Barack Obama sought to seize the reins of the economic crisis Monday as he and his new economic team worked closely with President Bush to inject confidence into the trembling financial markets, which rallied and erased most of last week’s losses.
The coordination between Mr. Obama and Mr. Bush was taking place among aides, as well as in direct talks about the rescue plan for Citigroup and unresolved details of the overall Treasury bailout plan. The president said his successor would be informed of every “big decision” that was made, adding, “It’s important for the American people to know that there is close cooperation.”
To calm anxious markets, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury plan to announce a major lending program on Tuesday to jump-start frozen loan markets, administration officials said. The Treasury had signaled earlier this month that it was considering such an action for consumer loans, but the action to be announced will broaden the program to include business debt.
In effect, the program would create a government bank to finance hundreds of billions of dollars in commercial debt, like car loans, student loans and business leases. The Treasury is expected to contribute $10 billion to $20 billion in seed capital, which would come from the $700 billion originally provided to shore up the financial system. The Federal Reserve would lend the new entity as much as 20 times that amount. For his part, Mr. Obama sought to assure Americans and foreign investors that he was seeking to fill any leadership vacuum, and said his economic advisers would begin working “today.” The advisers include Timothy F. Geithner, his choice for Treasury secretary.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/us/politics/25obama.html
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People forget how bad things were back then. I think that January 2009, there was a loss of something like 700+ thousand jobs for that month alone and by March of 2009, the Dow, that had hit a record high that October 2007 of around 14,000, had dropped to 6000.
