Kagro in the Morning - June 1, 2023

<p>Join us as <strong>Greg Dworkin</strong> assesses the guesses on how <a title="" href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/us/politics/kevin-mccarthy-debt-limit-republicans.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-original-title="">The Deal</a> would <a title="" href= "https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/kevin-mccarthy-approval-rating-debt-ceiling-vote-b2349566.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-original-title="">go down</a> in the House. (Spoiler: <a title="" href= "https://twitter.com/DemFromCT/status/1664241630142971906" target= "_blank" rel="noopener" data-original-title="">mostly correct</a>!) And, of course, how the media did in covering it. (Spoiler: <a title="" href= "https://twitter.com/DemFromCT/status/1664240111465136128" target= "_blank" rel="noopener" data-original-title="">mostly incorrect</a>!) But that’s more or less how <a title="" href= "https://twitter.com/DemFromCT/status/1664243549158752258" target= "_blank" rel="noopener" data-original-title="">the game</a> is <a title="" href= "https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/debt-ceiling-deal-joe-biden-rcna86940" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-original-title= "">played</a>.</p> <p class="">So, was there a deal between the party leaders to get this through? <a title="" href= "https://www.axios.com/2023/06/01/jeffries-mccarthy-debt-ceiling-bill-deal" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-original-title="">Depends who you ask</a>! In fact, if you ask just the right questions, you’ll start to wonder whether the Gop even <a title="" href= "https://twitter.com/allenanalysis/status/1664253262084689922" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-original-title="">had a deal with itself</a>.</p> <p class="">And since we’re not quite done with the debt ceiling just yet, here’s <a title="" href= "https://twitter.com/BruceBartlett/status/1663186450047705088" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-original-title="">yet another good point</a> about doing away with it.</p> <p class="">Meawhile, there’s some <a title="" href= "https://www.washingtonpost.c