Or hair washing…
Kyrstan needs more time. You know, closeups, best look, boots.
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I honestly don’t get all this “paygo” nonsense and whether it’s sincere or just posing. When you have to spend a lot of money because the alternative would be catastrophic, you figure out how to pay for as much of it now and deal with the rest later.
Did we ask how we’d pay for WWII and rebuilding our Pacific fleet when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor? No, and we ended up paying for it for decades and that was just FINE, especially compared to the alternative. Do people not buy cars or houses or take out student loans because they can’t pay for them now? Of course not. It’s called INVESTMENT and it’s not free.
And this infrastructure bill, being stimulative in both short and long-term ways, will clearly pay for itself, over time, only in ways not easily predictable. Like, say, R&D that it funds that will someday lead to new industries and economic activities or massive cost-savings. Or new or better roads that will lead to new development and cheaper shipping costs.
Warner’s a successful businessman and knows this. When he started his businesses, was he able to pay for the initial and ongoing investments right away, or know how he someday would? I doubt it. That’s not how business or government works. You can only reliably account for a portion of new spending and the rest you just have to plan and hope will be covered by future revenue that this spending will make possible. That’s how it works, in business AND government.
Enough with this centrist DLC bullshit. The GOP will try to exploit this but the public doesn’t really care anymore about debt or deficits. It just wants results, for its roads to be in good condition, for public safety to be strong, for schools to be good, and for the trains to run on time (yeah I just said that, time to take that expression back). The politics of infrastructure investment vastly outweigh the politics of paying for it. If they try to make it fully funded at the outset instead of amortizing it as they should, it will be vastly smaller and we’re going to see a lot of worthwhile programs cut or eliminated. Dems, stop trying to be Repubs!
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That will haunt her forever, the adolescent garb and petulant thumbs down. She comes across as an attention-seeking teenager who’s mad at her parents and likes to play people against each other for the cheap thrill it gives her. And Manchin’s just an opportunistic and none too bright coward who refuses to lead.
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I hope any Dem that primaries her runs this on a loop for about 30 seconds while enumerating all the stuff she’s done/not done while getting paid by her constituents.
I think it would make a dandy ad.
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There is something about her. You know what I mean stevie (ripped fishnets, goofy, easy, ready).
Lordy, i hope so.
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Counter point: The GOP’s 2017 tax cut was the biggest tax cut in US history.
It added $7.8 trillion to the National Debt, hurt the economy, hurt working families but added billions to the balance sheets of the mythical job creators.
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He asks so innocently
We’re on to you.
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Absolutely right. She’s acting like she’s 14.
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I had to laugh because the article Portman referenced didn’t blame “tax and spend” but the reopening of the economy and supply chain issues which are temporary.
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Never let facts get in the way of a good narrative.
The GQP is fundraising from this and they’re making money hand over fist. They’re not gonna let this go because it works.
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Fuck 'em
Well yes there is that, but imagine what it’s like today in Washington, Biden juggling six trillion $ of legislation, trying to keep it all moving forward (teetering on the edge) and the rapacious McConnell doing his very best to break up the 10-11 bipartisan Republicans - and Schumer also doing his best (crossing fingers) keeping Democrats unified. And then there’s the Texas house delegation at your front door demanding voting rights and protections! Now! Sky’s falling!!
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Don’t worry, Faux News is all about demagoguing that none of it is temporary…
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A liveblog about a thing that occurred 12 hours in the past???
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Now, now, in Sydney it’s only just happening.
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Let me put one thing in front of this august crew:
Let one bridge collapse - just one - after this proposal fails in the Senate. Just one. And watch the GQP nation descend on the Democrats for allowing that to happen. Watch the wailing and gnashing of teeth as to how the Dems did nothing to prevent this, while conveniently ignoring the GQP’s role in the proposal’s demise.
Kind of like the COVID relief bill, but far worse. People will die with the bridge collapse. And it will all be blamed on the Dems.
The Dems cannot, cannot, cannot let this proposal be defeated.
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OT, and yeah, it’s worth noting that the people who lauded their KKKult God-King as a brilliant populist tactician for promising to exit Afghanistan and actually beginning to make good on that promise have now decided it is the single worst thing in the world…
That’s the top article among the other 4 accompanying it all blasting Biden for removing the troops from our neocon forever-war in Afghanistan.
All while the website is peppered with pretense that somehow Biden is supposed to go full neocon and magically solve the problems in Cuba.
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Greener infrastructure will make the US more competitive in exports to Europe, which today is discussing a plan to bring overall EU carbon emissions down by 55% by 2030. The plan includes tariffs on embodied carbon in imported products. This is huge for China, which basically has not made any carbon reduction promises for 2030, and due to stimulus policies and the need for political advancement at the provincial level, is still building coal-fired power plants. China’s misstep here could be a big plus for the US. The NYT has picked up the discussion:
Still doesn’t go to much into the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) or the blue vs. green hydrogen debate, but baby steps.
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