Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, on Tuesday outlined her support for shortening the duration of programs within the reconciliation package rather than nixing any of them out to bring down its price tag amid centrist senators’ complaints over its $3.5 trillion topline.
That is absolutely brilliant. We get the programs and we get to try them out for 8 or 9 years…
This was the ACA strategy. Give the people what they need and want, and then try to take it away from them GOP.
It’s pretty clear Manchin favors carbon. If he would settle for a blue hydrogen path up to, say, 2050, and stop with the coal silliness, it could still preserve jobs on the Marcellus Shale. Still, it’s a relatively low job production field, and many of the jobs in the oil & gas industry are low-skilled, as is hydrocarbon extraction generally. I don’t think he opposes caring for the elderly or daycare subsidies. Indeed, the Democrats should be touting the fact that this bill helps deal with labor scarcity, a predictable consequence of pandemics.
It might be a good way to go.
This seems like a good plan. Now sell it and stop talking about Sinema and Manchin. Let Joe Biden, Schumer and Pelosi deal with those two. I am sick to death of hearing about them especially from someone who has her House seat for life if she wants it. You need all Dems in the House to support this as well and yes some of those Dems represent WA state.
So Jayapal and Bernie are carrying the message instead of Pelosi. Good strategy, I think.
But Kinzinger is an honorable man. Yeah, fuck him and the “Baby Dick” he rode in on.
I guess standing behind the full faith and credit of the United States is a bridge too far for any Republican.
Even the “moderates.”
Not to single people out…but Jayapal has shown us a doable path.
@hoagie has articulated a strategy that most here are also thinking:
Let them try to take it away from us.
It seems to me that needs-based tuition aid for junior college could also be a thing, rather than free for all.
I think she also could help her and the Dems’ case by noting ongoing preservation of the Affordable Care Act/Obama Care, and continuing health insurance without considering preconditions. This, in the face of Republican’s platform of ending the ACA and replacing it with zip.
And helping make electric cars less expensive will be popular, and could be memed out to great effect.
Creativity is key. The GOP already has creativity to cause chaos.
We actually have no competition from them in what we can do…unless we actually want to set our sights on taking away goods, services and monies from our citizens and placing them in the coffers of the 1%.
Just whack it down to five years, then let Manchinema try and stop reauthorization then. Neither one might even be around by then, or they may be irrelevant.
“I do not think that word means what you think it means.” - The Princess Bride
(You don’t either.)
No, no! Replacing the ACA with hopes and prayers for your health.
Can we please stop referring to Manchenima as “moderates” or “centrists”? They are neither. Indeed, they are merely right wing gops who ran as Democrats, nothing more.
I’ve been talking about doing this all along as a device to pass it. They should have lowered the Medicare age as well, THAT is truly something everyone could have benefited from, directly and indirectly.
Right there. You’re an HR person and you have a person who is 35 who needs insurance coverage and a person who is 55 and doesn’t need health insurance. Who do you hire?
Lowering Medicare to 50 will flip the script for older workers and give them an advantage instead of the handicap they have now.
It really doesn’t take much skill to cause chaos in great quantity. It’s only a matter of choosing when and where to begin. Once planted it will gather a life of it’s own. When I say great skill is not needed look at what tfg has accomplished chaos wise in whining about losing an election.
Masterfully done…with the likes of minions, the GOP and assorted criminals…
…the necessary** deliberation of the torpid Legal/Justice System.
** we have to nail Trump airtight-Legally…all the GOP has to do is to up what they are doing, in conjunction with making us despair and Doom/Gloom out.