A substitute amendment introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) failed to be adopted by the Senate in a 20-78 vote. The substitute amendment would have replaced the text of the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Anyone have anything on what the content of the bill was? Was it something as simple (and stupid) as replacing the whole 2000+ pages with ‘nope, nothin’s gonna happen in this Congressional term’? I’ve been working on project data cutover all day and have a break in the action, so just trying to catch up.
Correct, because that would make no sense to look at some isolated incident “in the vast scheme of things.” It’s self-contradictory. What they WILL do…and there’s evidence some are starting to do…is a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether they prefer the complete breakdown of governance and the deregulation, chaos, uncertainty, etc., that prevail in that vacuum OR the stability, certainty and order provided by a functioning regulatory regime and administrative state that operates in a consistent and predictable manner. This is not to say that they cannot prefer both the latter AND holding plutocratic sway over the more stable and predictable situation, but for many businesses in a position to hold that kind of sway, the former proposition of deregulation, dysfunction, non-governance and chaos isn’t necessarily the best profit opportunity.
Perhaps check out the idiots in Jane Mayer’s piece and fan out from there to a couple of degrees of separation to find the true supporters.
Personally I think most corporations speak with forked tongue on this issue. They may favor one side or the other but they mostly just don’t be left out by the winner.
I actually like this thing that McC is trying to do - let’s show the American people how disinterested the GQP is in helping its constituents. Let the record show that the time wasting is eating away at potential income for the workers that would put this infrastructure program on the map. Let the record show that lack of governance is the GQP stock in trade.
I like it. Please proceed.
Eventually, Schumer will decide that enough’s enough and give the GQP Senators enough rope to hang themselves.
I find it a good sign that 78 Senators voted to reject Lee’s attempt to scuttle the bi-partisan bill and replace it with an ALEC bill. Methinks the vote will be lopsided to pass the bi-partisan bill with just a few amendments and then back to the House for reconciliation.
And that’s not even dependent on whether HRH Queen Sinema is present. Heaven forbid her public service job should interfere with her unwarranted vacation (I mean, really - what the hell has she done to deserve any time off??).
The Republican Party certainly has lost any rights it may have had to be considered “republican.” It should now be called the “Dickhead Party” as it is fully descriptive of their modus operandi and beliefs.
And there goes Thune…the suck of the Senate. ‘Yeah yeah WE may have not done squat when WE were in charge but those pesky DEMOCRATS are trying to ram socialist crap through!’
McConnell sounds petulant. He wants the process to eat up time and will still filibuster or whip the vote against the bill even if Schumer acquiesces to stretching out the process.
Yep. McConnell is being McConnell. Totally expected and I am sure Schumer has the situation in hand. Mitch can’t seem to be going along with anything the Dems desire so he is playing his part.
