After the Congressional Progressive Caucus meeting today, chairwoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) told reporters that the group is scaling back its demands. To get their votes on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, she said, they need to see the legislative text of the reconciliation bill and to get a promise from President Joe Biden that he has all 50 Senate votes to pass it.
FFS, just get it done.
… 47, 48, 49, … 50! Oh, so that’s how many votes it takes to pass a bill in the Senate!
Appreciate the sentiment, but would you trust Manchin + Sinema?
What’s the alternative? Tank the BIF and get nothing? Yes, that sucks. But doing nothing is going to be way worse.
No way I would trust either.
BBB first. Then do BIL.
All it takes is proving once again that bad faith negotiating is the only style that gets rewarded in DC. No wonder the Republicans have been taking the rest of us for a ride for… what, decades now? My entire life, at least.
Maybe when pigs are flying over Wrigley Field after the Cubs win their 10th straight World Series in a row. Or when the Bears beat the Packers once.
I believe that this is the best course. For one thing, we need Manchin (who has been working with an approving Klobuchar) on Voting Rights.
For another, I trust Biden and Pelosi.
Third, this will help McAuliffe
Fourth, it will help Biden at the Glasgow Climate Meeting
No more weasel words from Sinema.
And no media framing as “Deus ex Manchina”
This is why I trust President Biden. Just follow his lead - I know he has the country’s best interests at heart. Just sick of us being led around the nose by narcissistic sociopaths. But to paraphrase disgraced Rumsfeld, we go to war with what we have, not what we wish we had.
No way. Sinema and/or Manchin would slobber at the opportunity to stab Biden in the back. Statement of BBB support HAS to come from them.
That’s huge from the progressive wing, a clear indication of the trust they have in Biden’s good faith negotiations. The question now is can POTUS make those assurances about Manchin and Sinema?
If he can ensure those votes, we’ll have a win for the country.
Is the legislation as big or expansive as many hoped? No.
But it ain’t nothing.
Nothing is allowing the Republicans and media to frame the narrative, continuously chopping away at any/all confidence in democratic (small ‘d’) governance.
From what Pelosi said, the legislative text is out and up for review. We’re rolling out to the tarmac at this point preparing for lift-off.
Personally, I’m good with that.
For both Senators to stiff Biden would be bad news on a number of levels…the worst kind of unprofessionalism…as bad as our politics have sunk
So, in other words, hell freezing over?
OT, but proof that T**** profits bigly off the genetically gullible…
Yet entirely believable at this point.
Of course…this is a leap of faith with Biden.
Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan are the two GOP senators from Alaska, a state with a very poorly operated sovereign wealth fund. With cryosphere collapse, Alaska takes it on the chin, both in terms of falling real fossil fuel prices and loss of natural services. Politics makes strange bedfellows, and I think Murkowski might be ready to get between the sheets.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01162-y.epdf?no_publisher_access=1&r3_referer=nature
There is selling a policy and there is selling a policy…
I know some boys who can take what Joe will have done with these two Bills and make people believe that Mt. Rushmore should have one bust instead of four:
Biden