They better fucking not. MoscowMitch wants that because he’ll be able to kill almost everything, then use the lack of delivery to steal the majority back in two years.
something my wife brought up that has us both wondering
Biden will keep in place travel restrictions from Europe and Brazil that Trump moved to lift in his final day in office.
Why was Trump moving to lift travel restrictions in the last couple days of his Admin? Trying to sneak more cases of the new variants for Biden to deal with? Trying make Biden look xenophobic by closing borders? There is always an angle–but we are having trouble figuring out this one. Any thoughts?
One of our pieces of luck is that the new administration has smart, experienced people. So when Biden says “Give me an EO to sign about X” it happens very quickly, instead of the dragged-out pace that trump worked at.
Schumer needs to brainstorm with some serious Senate scholars on how to get around Manchin et al for nuking the filibuster. Manchin’s reluctance to go along for the sake of his own political ass cannot be tolerated. Start running ads immediately how Manchin is against giving West Virginians an additional $1400.
Maybe Bolsonaro paid - or promised - something. Talk about two of a kind. As far as Europe goes? Yeah, just being underhanded and adding one more disaster to be fixed.
Well, Barbara Boxer’s not there any more. Her seat was won by Kamala Harris and is now occupied by Alex Padilla.
But yes, there are others apart from Manchin: Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema, for one.
Plus supposedly there are Republican “centrists” as well: Susan Collins, for example, is beseeching us to keep the filibuster and not get rid of it in an unthinking moment of passion.
As I pointed out above, things have changed a lot in the Senate.
The future of the filibuster is unclear, but I believe it’s safe to say that its survival is hanging by a very frayed thread.