And it’s a good part of the remaining 10-20%, too.
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This is from the Washington Post:
The two Democrats opposing the legislation Saturday were Kurt Schrader of Oregon and Jared Golden of Maine. Golden has argued that the House should have pursued a stand-alone vote on a vaccine-funding bill before turning to larger relief legislation.
I’m assuming that Golden, at least, would have voted “yea” if he were the deciding vote. Otherwise, there’s no room in elected politics for him.
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And because the media always loves conflict, bad news, and vile behavior, their obstruction and lies about the bill will be known far and wide. Goddamn RW propaganda continues to be the downfall of the country.
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Eso es fascinante.
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No dices!
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He’s peeved, then?
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I agree. Overruling or firing the Senate parliamentarian in a terrible idea. As you indicate, at least two Dems and no Repubs will vot for the bill if either approach is followed. Likewise, doing away with the filibuster, while satisfying, will not solve the problem Again, too many Dems oppose that process to even pass with a simple majority. This is a time for strategy - pass the COVID relief bill sans minimum wage and then immediately put a minimum wage bill on the floor. make the Repubs vote against two bills that are overwhelming popular with even their voters. Succumb to the emotionally satisfying but ultimately unsuccessful strategies proposed by too many liberals is a sure way to lose for the American people.
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Absolutely. As @geographyjones points out, 10-20% of the other is “owning the libs” and even much of “owning the libs” is still about grievance and hate. They would literally starve themselves and their own children in order to hurt some liberal or some Black or Brown person somewhere. Once folks fully accept that fact, it becomes much easier to understand why these people keep getting elected.
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Overruling or firing the parliamentarian by Democrats would cause them to lose their goddamn minds, just like Biden’s decision not to pursue the Saudi murderers. Not an iota of accountability for the Trump administration.
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To me it didn’t seem the best idea to have the new minimum wage in there. But, if that was removed, all the Rethugs would live happily ever after and vote for the stimulus bill? I doubt it.
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While taunting the libs that Biden-not-their-president broke his promise of being a unifier.
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WTF?
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Agreed. Josh addresses this very thing in his most recent editorial. I thought this part at the end was especially brilliant and prescient and has long been a huge problem in Democratic politics…
"Pushing this hard is obviously a way of exerting pressure, which is unremarkable and totally what one would expect. The problem is that when you convince your supporters that something is easy and just sitting there waiting to be done and the folks in charge refuse to do it you send a crippling, demoralizing and fissiparous message. If this whole minimum wage thing is easily solvable and Joe Biden or Chuck Schumer refuse to solve it that must mean that they don’t care that much about it. Or maybe the whole show of an effort to try to hike the minimum is a ruse. Maybe the fix is in somehow. That’s obviously a very damaging message when you’re trying to keep a political coalition together, all the more so if it’s based, more or less, on lying to your supporters.
You might as well just drop a bomb in the middle of your political coalition. It’s not a good way to get any actual policy goal accomplished or to keep coalitions intact. It’s best at making you feel confident and cozy in your own righteousness and reassured that the only reason things aren’t getting done is because everyone else is a hack or a sell out or so feckless as to amount to the same.
Again, that can feel good. But misleading your supporters like this actually doesn’t generate policy successes and it breeds – or rather directly instills – a belief in the cynicism or bad faith of coalition partners that makes future successes far less likely."
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I’d love to know just how Biden’s conversation with King Salman went. The upshot of the intelligence report release isn’t at all what I was expecting.
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Pass the Bill, with the $15.00 if possible (probably with the increase included in the Defense Appropriation Bill).
If not possible, then Pass the Bill without it. Then immediately Put a House-Passed stand alone $15.00 Minimum Wage before the Senate.
Finally: Tell the Truth (Message) about the successful passage of a $1.9 Trillion Rescue Package desired by 76% of the American Public.
This is the upside. This is the success which leads to more success
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“Fissiparous”
I just might cancel my “Economist” subscription if Josh continues with the free vocabulary lessons!
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Bullseye Rep Green! First, your base hasn’t a clue who Woodrow Wilson was. And second, is there a GOOP member of Congress who isn’t to the left of Woodrow Wilson, who was a fairly open racist in his day?
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Republicans have repeatedly decried the legislation as partisan and divisive amid calls ongoing calls for unity. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) decried the bill which he said included measures unrelated to the pandemic.
Exactly. This is one of the most bipartisan bills among the general public in recent memory. What McCarthy is saying is that he doesn’t care, not only about what Democrats want, but even what his own constituents want and need. They have no interest beyond consolidating power, and to use that power to perpetuate their own hegemony.
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