President Biden won’t sign bipartisan infrastructure legislation until Congress has also passed a reconciliation package, he told reporters on Thursday.
The DINOmic Duo have no more lifelines.
it’s called getting it done.
Gosh, it’s almost as if Joe Biden has learned a thing or two over the last half century in Washington.
Glad he said it out loud, echo-ing Nancy. This could stick.
Senate GOP negotiating team: “Oh…never mind…”
He set them up but good by saying “their word is good enough for me.” If any of them don’t back it, he won’t even need to come out and say it, everyone will know they lied to the President’s face.
I’d like to see him maneuver McTurtle into that position.
Pro moves
He’s got a fencepost all ready, with McTurtle’s name on it.
Thanks, I’ll just be over here practicing my forms.
Well said. I don’t think Biden will be surprised when Republicans vote against their own deal. The sabbath gasbags might be, but Biden won’t be. I think he’s just setting them up as untrustworthy, in addition to being blind to the needs of “ordinary folks” for affordable child care, elder care and healthcare.
No Shit, Joe. Pelosi can “filibuster” as well as McConnell can and she will if the deals you cut with the GOP traitors don’t pass muster with her caucus and sense for fairness. She owns you as well as McConnell.
The problem is if the 5 do vote for it they will still need 5 more to avoid reconciliation and as the Senate can only pass one more bill using reconciliation, that could be the Republican play.
That is to pass the compromise they still need 60 votes and with the 5 Repugs they got 55. Which means McConnell may try to maneuver Dems to use the last reconciliation this year to pass the compromise thereby killing the other bill. I think we can all write McConnell’s speech accusing Dems and Biden of bad faith for not using their last reconciliation to pass the compromise ignoring that Republican obstructionism is why it would be necessary. But I do think, unlike the last 40+ years, Dems will have a backbone not to fall for it regardless of many in the lamestream media going along with McConnell’s hypocritical rhetoric.
This is already becoming the GQP excuse to obstruct any bipartisan bill. They never intended to pass one anyway.
Fuck Joe Manchin.
Dems do not have to pass the “bipartisan” bill through reconciliation – they can combine it with the larger reconciliation bill. And as long as Manchin is willing to pass the “bipartisan” bill through the reconciliation, he will be willing to pass the combined bill that way.
Sure but all this song in dance is not to convince Republicans to pass a bipartisan bill (though that would have been a plus for the country), it is to convince Manchin to support the reconciliation even if and when the bipartisan bill fails. And by agreeing to consider the reconciliation together with the bipartisan bill Manchin made a significant step towards the outcome we all need.
I quite understand that people want to cling to that theory, but I think it’s broken. Manchin is beholden to those who bought him and that’s the end of it. I’ll believe otherwise once I see it, not before.
If the whole kit and caboodle passes through reconciliation someone needs to remind me again what all this bipartisanship is about.
That is the whole point was to pass a bill Republicans could agree on. If in the end there is a single bill passed through reconciliation it will again be without a single Republican vote.
Or to put still another way, the only way this makes sense is it allows Republicans to vote for something and claim credit for what is in the bill instead of against voting everything and claiming credit for whats in the bill.
Niiiiiiiiiice.
