Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) on Thursday praised the deal Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) reached on a reconciliation bill that modestly addresses climate investments and lowers prescription drug prices as a “major step forward.”
w/r/t some skepticism I’ve seen elsewhere:
Jayapal is smart and tough. I trust her judgement.
Get the best deal possible, then keep fighting with that as the new baseline.
I’ll be so relieved if we can avert a circular firing squad.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, let’s get shit done!
Major step forward? It’s a goddamn miracle is what it is. The Senate actually did something! And they did this shortly before a midterm election. Was anyone expecting any of this?
I have been gerrymandered out of Jayapal’s district. I liked her and I liked her staff. This will be the third time I have been gerrymandered into another congressional district since I began residence here. Which calls to mind my primary ballot that I dropped into a ballot box yesterday. (No, there was no harassing sign about cameras as was the case in Seattle.) My ballot contained not one vote for a traitor (AKA Republican). Jayapal does not need my help having won 82% of the vote last time. Larsen does well, but he has a couple of real defectives running against him. Then again, I think almost all Republicans are now defective.
Don’t pop the bubbly just yet, Manchin is as trustworthy as one of the rattlesnakes that they use in their snake worship in West Virginia.
Looks like last week’s Manchin blowup was just a smoke screen to get the CHIPS bill passed along with this one. I like it.
More of this please, Democrats!
Take the W.
see initial comment w/r/t Jayapal’s judgement, versus our own.
Democrats in array!
WTF?
So where is the AZ elephant in the room on this? Is nobody mentioning Sinema’s name because she is already on board? I would have thought the corporate tax provision would be a deal breaker for her.
Exactly. There’s no crying in baseball.
I misread this at first, then read it again. I was happy to realize my mistake.
And the fact that it was basically done by snookering Mitch McMoscow, the Dastard of the Senate, is just the double-cross cherry on top of my schadenfreude sundae.
I hate having to be of two minds. The one wants to believe Rep. Jayapal would never say this unless she knew the vote is assured. The other says that Sinemanchin will find some pretext to tank this within days so their pockets and profile are further boosted by dark money and dark connections. Oh, and there’s always the bad luck if too many Senators or Reps. go ill, try to strong arm the caucus for other reasons, etc.
Understandable, given how rare the usage is.
After all, the Dems tend to be more in a heap than an array, most of the time.
(And there’s your computer science data structures joke for the morning. I’ll just pop out now.)
Count the teeth.
It is currently unclear, however, which drugs Medicare will be able to negotiate down.
Let’s start with Epipens and see if Joe is okay with that.
Sinema apparently hasn’t been heard from, apart from her “spokeswoman” saying she’s going over the deal with her eagle eye and still hasn’t decided what she thinks of it.
Lucy #2 with the football?
Does anyone here have a better idea of what Sen. Fuck-Off is going to do?
