President Joe Biden is calling in factions of primarily House members to the White House today. The progressives are at 2:00 p.m., followed by the moderates a couple hours later. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) will reportedly have a one-on-one earlier on Tuesday.
Because however relatively reasonable Manchin will be, there’s still nothing that can get her on board.
Maybe a massive Goodwill storefront expansion for clothes shopping?
President Joe Biden is calling in factions of primarily House members to the White House today. The progressives are at 2:00 p.m., followed by the moderates a couple hours later. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) will reportedly have a one-on-one earlier on Tuesday.
Yup, that’s exactly what “cognitive decline”, “doesn’t even know what day it is”, “completely controlled by the left wingers” looks like.
According to O’Donnell last night, Progressives and Manchin met for hours and it wasn’t to say “no”.
Maybe he was hallucinating and the BeltWay Bois are spot-on…
I do not believe that the BeltWay Boys want this to pass. Given our Climate situation, I am led to believe that they think Gated Neighborhood Security will take care of that.
When the “journalists” are as fat and happy as the perps (GOP pols), access becomes assets.
The interesting effect of putting a means test on programs like the Child Tax Credit is that it changes the very nature of the program from a pro-child / pro-family program to a welfare program.
A tax credit that all who meet the non-income based criteria will be popular and considered as much a benefit for all as is the individual tax exemption for dependents. The debate then becomes how high should that exemption be.
By attaching a means test to the program those who do not meet the income requirement for the program will resent that they can not get the credit and will support future efforts to reduce the qualifying income level or to eliminate the program altogether.
In short means testing drives wedges between citizens and increases the feeling among the moderate income people of West Virginia and the rest of the nation that they are being cheated once again. MEANS TESTING OF TAX CREDITS LEADS TO A MORE DEVIDED, MORE CONTENTIOUS, AND LESS ;UNIFIED NATION. IT IS VERY BAD PUBLIC POLICY.
That brian512 wins the prize for the stupidest comment of the week.
Please adjust SnarkOMeter™ settings in your Covid GatesChip™.
It ain’t over till it’s over.
But it’s almost over … so get a deal done this week - next week at the latest.
How is whether or not you know how to use birth control not a means test?
Why are the bills and expenses of parents considered more important to the Dems than the bills and expenses of people without dependent children at home?
Childcare workers make an average of $10/hour. Instead of sending upper-middle class parents cash for childcare, how about we send some cash to those childcare workers so they can pay their rent?
" Progressives (2 p.m.):
Reps. Katherine Clark (D-MA), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Ritchie Torres (D-NY), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Jared Huffman (D-CA) and Jimmy Gomez (D-CA).
Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Ami Bera (D-CA), Tom O’Halleran (D-AZ) and Mike Thompson (D-CA) as well as Sens. Jon Tester (D-MT), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Mark Warner (D-VA)."
FIFY
For the love of all that is holy, please stop calling them moderates. They are not. They are self-serving corporate donation monkeys.
Nope, I just got beat.
I was also going to give a snarky response, but nothing beats yours… 
Sleepy Joe gives @brian512 two MyPillows up.
I hope he just tells Sinema she’s done in DC no matter what she does. That he will personally use all political capital and all connections and call in all favors he has ever accumulated in almost 50 years to utterly destroy her. She’s going to put an “I” after her name pretty soon anyway. She is desperately seeking a tribe that will elect her princess and everyone knows that if she does it, she wil immediately become the favorite senator media darling of the entire DC press corps.
Biden Holds Office Hours As Manchin Takes Axe To Reconciliation Bill
Joe Manchin took an axe, gave the reconciliation bill 40 whacks.
Too soon?
And when he saw what he had done, he gave Sinema 41.
(A boy can dream)
Manchin is a lying snake. It has always been a bait and switch attempt…
““A carbon tax is not on the board at all,” Manchin said,”
Manchin’s definition of compromise: “I get everything I want…little as that is. Republicans get everything they want…little as that is. And I get to tell everyone else that they get nothing.”
Here’s why he wants a $60K cap:
https://statisticalatlas.com/state/West-Virginia/Household-Income
And the rest of the country with grossly different income dispersions and costs of living can all go fuck themselves because that would mean they’re getting more than West Virginia.