I think that may have been true couple weeks ago but every time Biden speaks or Jayapal or Sanders they talk about the popular features of the plan. Additionally, there’s been a tv ad playing non-stop for the past 2 months talking up the benefits of the bill.
Of course, they could always do more. I wonder–Is there actually a person–or team–in charge of Democratic messaging for the Congress? Formulating the best talking points and coordinating tv appearances and interviews. Seems overdue.
And nobody reports on it, nobody sees or hears it and right wing media effectively…oh so effectively…shouts over it. Biden will be around 35% approval by Christmas. Watch.
“Neal Says He’s Under Impression That Sinema Is Still ‘Up In The Air’ About Tax Provisions To Pay For Reconciliation”
She’s to up in the air about anything. She’s in peoples’ pockets and has her hand out for more.
The picture is pretty clear …
That’s because she’s an airhead.
I remember Bill Clinton had a pretty rough time during his first term, right before he won re-election to a 2nd.
You’re seeing real movement from Sinema on taxes. Ritchie Neal is so dry and wonky that it mutes Sinema’s reflexively oppositional tendencies. He basically told her that incremental tax rate increases are simple and fair and corporations can plan around it. Writing alternative ways to capture revenue can get convoluted. Sinema also is looking at her own political survival (I am not one of those who thinks she wants only 1 term in the Senate. I believe she loves the power and is only now realizing that she overplayed her hand and could get beat in '24). I believe she now wants to get to ‘yes’. Manchin is not opposed to these tax increases so she doesn’t want to stand out in that way here. I hope we can announce a framework agreement by tomorrow.
I’ve come around to that myself. I initially thought she’d be perfectly happy getting out and making bank lobbying or consulting and leveraging her 1 term as Senator for a huge salary, but upon further observation of the preening, performative, constant deluge of look-at-me bullshit and what appears to be a very deliberate and misguided attempt to fill McCain’s shoes, I think she wants another term. That being said, I don’t think she wants it to necessarily be as a Dem anymore. She’s bought, and she has completely tipped her hand that she’s for sale, and every Dem in the country should pretty much hate her at this point like she shat in their morning cereal, so I don’t see her winning a nomination as a Dem in 2024. What was so short-sighted on her part was helping to hand Congress to the GQP in 2023 (no, I don’t think we have a snowball’s chance in hell). If she had focused on making Biden as big of a success as possible and helped set us up for a good mid-term, then she’d have had our full backing in 2024, but now, with Biden tanked by all this nonsense, his agenda eviscerated to uselessness, and the GQP almost certain to be in control in 2024, she will have absolutely nothing to bargain with to get the Dem party apparatus to support her…and they shouldn’t. Frankly, that might be the realization that has her just switching to “R” and begging the GQP to help her leverage the “mavericky” nonsense and her massive corporate donation warchest as THEIR candidate.
I don’t think she’d have much luck getting GOP support. They like her only because she is tanking Biden’s agenda while they get to sit and watch. That doesn’t translate into voting for her.
If she were to switch parties she would no longer be newsworthy as the centrist Democrat fighting the forces of socialism, no primping and preening for the cameras, nothing more than just another GOP automaton senator controlled by McConnell.
False. Check the Faux News KKKomment boards under the articles about her fucking everything up. She’s almost a folk hero and the posts about voting for her if she’d just change the letter after her name abound. Moreover, the GQP establishment/leadership will absolutely love that she is for sale and can be fully manipulated by donations coupled with periodic princess treatment in the press as the carrot on the stick. Want to get her to behave a certain n way? Call up Faux News and and run the appropriate narrative as the goad.
Perhaps this ought to provide a little clarity on Senator Sinema’s position and whether she is operating in good faith. As noted below, she has put out a statement that she has agreed to tax provisions to “fully cover” the bill, including changes affecting foreign operations!
From TPM: “After shooting down tax hikes on the wealthy, Sen. Sinema is now creating a buzz on the Hill with a carefully worded statement about what tax provisions she would support using to help fund the reconciliation package.
“According to Politico… Sinema has agreed to tax provisions to fund the package that, together, would produce enough revenue to align with the topline spending range of roughly $2 trillion that Democratic leaders have floated recently.
“Senator Sinema has agreed to provisions in each of President Biden’s four proposed revenue categories — international, domestic corporate, high net worth individuals, and tax enforcement — providing sufficient revenue to fully pay for a budget reconciliation package in the range currently being discussed,” a source familiar with the discussions told Politico.
“The details on the specific provisions Sinema supports are still unclear, however.
“Modern day absurdity”? That’s been the normal way of life for most of the world (at least the “civilized world”) for approximately the past 5000 years. Hell, there’s whole genres of literature and music - American, British, and pretty much every other country - about it.
Yep!
She voted to convict Donnie two impeachments - twice. Doesn’t matter what they’re saying on the comment boards now, there’s no way she gets through the Republican primary- even without considering that she’s LGBTQ and pro-choice.
Put it this way, there’s plenty of praise for Kitzinger and Cheney on this board, but do you think either of them are going to get TPM’ers votes next nov?
That’s a remarkably polite way of saying “coo-coo bonkers hopeless”.
Trying to keep it topical (as it relates to current events). The “absurdity” is that it’s happening now - in modern day America.
Why would you have paid family leave not starting in 2022?
And don’t give me technical reasons. That’s political malpractice. Jeebus Democrats, put money in people’s pockets ASAP.
I don’t know why they don’t get that. It’s a two minute drill and they’re huddling up and taking way to much time.
They do lots of stuff when they’re in town. A typical day in the Senate looks like this:
And their hypocrisy knows no bounds. In fact, being total hypocrites and getting away with it is part of “owning the libs.”
You left out 9-5 dialing for dollars/receiving instructions from mega-donors and ignoring constituents.
I’m in Scott Peters (D-Big Pharma) district. He’s obviously feeling the heat for the $900k in pharma donations, his mailer bleats on about having to pay pharma cos to develop new drugs and glosses completely over the fact he’s opposed to allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices. It’s actually a masterful piece of sleight of hand, I’m genuinely impressed.