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And another bad outcome for the American people out of this strategy besides the GOP robbing the treasury while in office, and then blasting the Dems when they have budget power about reducing the debt, hampering the Dems ability to carry out their mandate and instead spend their whole terms just fixing what Republicans broke...

...is that any Democratic nominee, who wins, and simply cannot fulfill their progressive promises because of pressure from Republicans and the corporate catering sect of their own party to first right the economic ship, helps to suppress the vote from Democrats next election, because of those unfulfilled promises. There is nothing sexy about your main time in office being spent cutting programs and fighting with the GOP about raising the debt ceiling. If Democrat voters don't see much progress on the issues they care about, when they actually hold some power, some of them just get despondent and stay home, or even vote third party.