House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) delayed the vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill that she scheduled for yesterday after it became clear progressives would make good on their threat to tank BIF if the $3.5 reconciliation bill wasn’t passed with it in President Joe Biden’s two-track strategy that all Democrats, moderates included, had initially committed to.
Frist!
Roads?! Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!
Do I hear Kyrsten crying in her pillow this morning?
Sausage, anyone?
The irony is that a large majority favors everything in the two bills, but somehow support for the bills themselves is lower.
The D stands for drama.
Doubt it. Going to be lots of things stuffed in bills that big, always going to be at least parts to dislike and that wouldn’t pass on their own.
Probably not. She has already found out that Congress is the place to go to become a millionaire in a hurry if one has no real talent. She has glommed up enough by now to live out the rest of her life in comfort, assuming some other congress critters don’t make a million bucks the price of a loaf of bread. My prediction is she will continue to take as much as she can get for selling out her constituents and the nation until her term expires.
If I recall reading his words correctly, that 1.5 trillion top line limit by Manchin just means that anything above that has to be paid for. So, it could be larger.
Or
Yep, that’s my read too (expressed yesterday). It’s hard work running for office, and six years of selling out should be enough to get her set for life.
Prayer for Nancy:
O Lord,
Give the lady what she wants.
I’m still cautiously optimistic, but now a bit more optimistic than this time yesterday.
The Planet beckons…we either pay attention or not…but it’s hard to be dragging tens of millions of Social Security Receiving adolescents (along with their children and grandchildren).
Americans, working in a cooperative mode, are probably the world’s best in tackling the problems we face…
…but the adolescents…they beckon too: “…Let us get rid of Democracy ASAP…”
I’m guessing that Trump voters won’t support anything Dems support even if they support the same things. You can’t rationalize stupid, infantile and resentful. Those folks aren’t playing with a full deck. It’s all jokers, really.
Has two scoops commented on two tracks yet?
No one else was in the room where it happened
The room where it happened
The room where it happened
No one else was in the room where it happened
The room where it happened
The room where it happened
No one really knows how the game is played
The art of the trade
How the sausage gets made
We just assume that it happens
But no one else is in the room where it happens
Joe Manchin speaks with forked tongue.
Something’s Very Wrong with the Times
Josh Marshall
In the days leading up to this bit of progress in the legislative process, a number of people were in deep despair…
NOT because of negative feelings of the American people concerning the legislation, but rather the naysayers from people like I have referenced above: Josh’s essay on the NYT.
It is literally the definition of tragic when a number of good things are in evidence, but pessimism and fatalism erupt because of people who sell negativity for $$$$$$$$$$.