House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) remained unmoved after moderates in her caucus threatened to withhold their votes on the reconciliation budget resolution unless she brings the bipartisan infrastructure bill to the floor first.
I wish she could do the same to Manchin and Sinema. But she can’'t so …
Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi continue to demonstrate the stunning effectiveness of decades of experience.
What a relief after the clown administration.
As I said when this threat first became public, the threat itself is not even logical. “This infrastructure bill is so important to our families that unless we pass it now I’m not going to vote for it next month, or ever,” Face palm. Amateur hour, as the iron lady said.
Progressive performative grandstanding, nothing more. Comes from inexperience, nothing more.
The threat is empty and ridiculous. No Dem is going to vote against either of these bills. Nancy knows it, Chuck knows it, and the idiots making the threat know it.
Nancy Pelosi’s finely tuned instincts and political deftness continue to amaze and please me!
She’s a wonder. Long may she reign.
Moderate performative grandstanding, nothing more. FIFY
This is delicate time and Pelosi will need all her skill and patience to navigate it. I have trouble imagining anyone more qualified for the task but even then it seems a razor’s edge: not only must both infrastructure bills pass but so must the voting rights act.
Strength and luck to you Speaker Pelosi: the nation relies on you as much as anyone now.
I agree with you, but I don’t think the Democrats can win the swing districts unless there have been actual, dramatic job creation projects - people put to work, good wages and benefits - from these two bills.
The most important of these two bills is the hard infrastructure bill that was just passed by the Senate and can be passed in the House the moment Pelosi gives the signal. The critical point is this: You can’t get these projects started overnight. There are no shovel-ready projects. It takes many months. So, if the Democrats want to keep Congressional control, I believe they need to quickly show results on the ground, not just to us who subscribe to TPM.
Their failure to do that with Obamacare cost them the Congress in 2010. So, while Pelosi might be right on the “grand political stage” of Congressional Democratic prima donnas, I think she has miscalculated on the effect of delay on the midterms. Gottheimer is a very savvy politician who represents one of those swing districts; I would take his letter seriously.
I worked in a city where the city engineer always had the engineering done when other communities in our SMSA had nothing ready, consequently, we always got a little more than our share.
Good staff and good planning are important.
Inexperience, or a learning disability. Aren’t these some of the same clownshoes who did all that huffing and puffing over challenging Pelosi for the Speakership back in 2018, and then folded like a house built of cheap playing cards (all jokers)?
These nine knuckleheads are back benchers putting their bid in to climb the ladder and become further-back benchers.
So he actually is the “Joe Manchin” of the House? I’d been leaning towards “Amateur Hour” myself, but admit that I know nothing of his local politics.
Except moderate not progressive.
Ruh-ro.
From Taliban presser:
We will bring opium production to zero.
Down from 10,000 metric tons last year.
She knows how to call a bluff.
Gaslighting gaslighter’s gonna gaslight, I suppose.
FIFY
“Moderate”. It’s right there in the title.
Pelosi needs the White House to lean on these Conservadems. Biden has already triangulated between the left and right within his party, and done the work (with Schumer and Pelosi) to bring some Republicans along for part of the ride. Biden’s agenda will come crashing down if one side or the other decides to reopen negotiations.