While Congress is in recess this week, we’ll be watching negotiations on the infrastructure bill and presenting them to you in an evening briefing. Check in here to find out how the sausage-making is shaping up.
That dress is unfortunate as well. Someone should tell her.
This is sort of a radical solution, but Trump proved you don’t need the Senate for anything. Just cut them out completely. Appoint acting judges and officials, all the way up to the SOS and AG, just like Trump did, and make executive orders for everything. Declare an infrastructure emergency and divert military funds to infrastructure, again just like Trump did for the wall. Declare a child care emergency and divert military funds to child care. Etc etc etc. Make them sue us for a change. Anyway the courts pretty much let Trump do anything he wanted. They can be bullied into doing the same for Biden.
He also told some Democrats on a call, per CNN, that he has beef with the expansion of Medicare to cover vision, hearing and dental, opposes paid family leave and medical leave proposals, rejects climate measures that would halve emissions by 2030 and is concerned about tuition-free community college. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), meanwhile, is reportedly blocking tax increases on corporations and the wealthy, one of the main ways Democrats would pay for the bill.
Checking notes to see if he missed any group in his FU statement.
Dear Joe:
Do you know AARP?
Do know any young parents?
Do you know that rocket man Jeff Bezos makes $2.25 billion a week? You don’t think that old Jeffery can hand back some more in taxes?
Play hardball. Have a vote for BBB. Let Sinema and Manchin vote no.
Pelosi shelves the BIL. What next senators Sinema and Manchin?
I agree that more Executive Orders need to be issued. But I don’t think Joe can bully the courts, Trump was bullying Federalist Society hacks owing fealty to McConnell. Joe has those same hacks who think TX Abortion law is good legislating.
Reading the article it begs the question what will Manchin support? Because what else is in that bill? Black Lung Disease support?
Maybe the message needs to go out that the Democrats are going to pull every penny for that and every other federal dollar that goes to support West Virginia BECAUSE of Manchin’s obstruction to passing these bills that his own constituents support.
And then set up the investigations of his family by the FBI and give him a choice, shut up and play ball, or get screwed every which way.
As for Sinema, I dunno, I think she’s more the horsehead in the bed kind of message recipient.
If they vote no, they better have spent time digging their own fortresses like NORAD in Cheyenne Mountain. There’s no place to hide, there will be no one who wouldn’t be pissed off at them, and Mitch will laugh his evil laugh. That’s what’s going to happen if they don’t get on board.
Sometimes I think she’s daring people to be cruel about the way she dresses…
We end the week right where we started.
OT, sort of. If only we could get people to understand who’s really to blame here. Manchin and Sinema aren’t interested, apparently.
The U.S. middle class — defined as the middle 60% of households — now holds a smaller share of wealth than top 1%, according to Schwab.
Jonathan Last: “This is bad. But it’s important to state why it’s bad. I would argue that it’s bad morally, in that increasing the leverage of capital relative to labor is unfair. But let’s leave morality aside.”
“It’s bad practically. Because the stress this disequilibrium puts on a society is significant. It contributes to social conflict, which then translates into political conflict.”
\https://politicalwire.com/2021/10/15/top-1-holds-more-wealth-than-entire-middle-class/
Ultimately, I think that’s where this is headed. House crafts and passes a House BBB, sends it to the Senate and says we’re done unless it passes the Senate.
Call the vote, make them ACT not just posture.
Nah. She is just like the horse that runs into the wall. Not blind. Just doesn’t give a damn.
What is the pattern? Lava-lamp camo?
I heartily agree with you.
I believe that she derived her dress’s color palette from your avatar.
This has been known since before the French Revolution. The other practical point is that if you give the bottom 60% more money they will pay off debts and spend it, in that order. Isn’t that how we juice the economy? The investor class can’t invest any more without turning corporations into even more bloated cash cows. The markets are awash with free/very cheap money, and the only thing the uber rich know to do with it is keep investing. At this point, the additional money does no additional work to build companies, and by trickle down, the economy.
Yup. That’s the way I see it. Then if the BBB goes down in the Senate, the progressive caucus will torpedo the BIF in the House. The only problem with that is that the only winners will be the do-nothing GOP caucus who like the status quo and will be happy with no action at all.
Biden and Democrat’s big risk came very early and it was creating unrealistic expectations for legislation with these razor thin margins and bad faith actors within their caucus. Reconciliation has not become the panacea for the the GOP and the undemocratic filibuster. It has just raised unrealistic expectations among the electorate.
The Dem.s game plan at this point going into 2022 has to be the indictment of the GOP as Trumpism’s enabler. Call them ALL Nazi’s and storm trooper’s. They deserve it. Blame them for not supporting the American Rescue Plan which kept the economy afloat this year. Blame them for condemning Build Back Better (BBB). The GOP’s messaging on BBB is cunning but also another big lie. If Collins or Mrockowski REALLY cared about their constituents or literally millions of kids born into poverty, they would support BBB. That they don’t proves they are morally bankrupt. Their lack of support is as bad as that of Manchin or Sinema. A yes vote is a yes vote. The Constitution doesn’t recognize political parties.
Trickle down. We all know there’s no such phenomenon.
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