Biden’s budget proposal doesn’t include the Hyde Amendment language, and the anti-abortion swarms are flying.
If and only if you get Senators Manchin, and Sinema . Politically, I rather get an infrastructure bill, that covers traditional infrastructure, plus broadband, the electric grid and some Green stuff with say 20 Republican votes. Than a 50 vote bill that cuts out way ever Manchin and Sinema insist plus the pork that Manchin, and Capato add in for WV.
This isn’t Covid relief, it is not time critical. If it take until the end of the year so be it.
The environment is absolutely time critical.
Yeah and I’d like to win the Powerball. If you still think there’s any spending bill the Dems can put forth that the GOP will vote for, let alone twenty of them… well, where have you been the past 5 years?
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2008 was more than 5 years ago.
Well, Biden still thinks there is a shot as does Sen Caputo who is leading the Republican negotiation. Let’s put it this way if you want to making fucking sure absolutely nothing get down. A really good place to start, is to piss off Sen Caputo, who will in turn complain to her good friend Sen. Manchin that Democrats aren’t serious about working with Republicans. Thereby guaranteeing that Democrats have 48 or 49 votes for the bill, which if my math is correct means it is dead.
Trust, my I hate that all roads run through West Virginia. Our family was stuck in Bluefield, WV for 4 days which felt like 4 weeks. If I never heard about West Virginia and it’s Senator I’d be a happy camper, but that’s not the world we live in.
My take is President Biden is a tad more knowledgeable about how bills because laws than us folks in QT3.
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Also it is entirely possible to get bipartisan bills passed. The 2020 Defense bill passed the Senate 86-8, the 2021 Defense bill was passed by a voice vote. That’s an 800 billion bill. The first two Covid bill were also bi-partisan. Transportation bills routinely pass by similar margins.
The second reason for optimist is Mitch McConnell has NOT vowed to kill the infrastructure bill.
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Personally I believe that the climate watershed has been passed long ago. Shit will happen, regardless of what we do today. This kind of thing is like a bandaid on a pulsing arterial wound.
Not to say don’t do it. Just to say too little too late.
Oh, yeah, we’re utterly fucked. All y’all who have kids certainly chose to have them at the worst possible time. Hope they enjoy water wars and continuous worldwide forest fires!
And just slow enough moving that every effect will be able to be bad faith handwaved away as “just the way things are.” Thus allowing people to kick the can down the road a little more, especially those who are financially and politically positioned to be least harmed by the earlier stages of climate change.
If you believe climate scientists are right about the problem, why not also believe their assertion that keeping warming below 3 degrees centigrade will stave off the worst effects? (The political feasibility is obviously another question, though if the GOP weren’t stark raving insane the politics might seem less intractable.)
In any case, throwing up one’s hands and saying “we’re fucked” isn’t really a useful stance, particularly for those of us who so foolishly decided to have kids.
I would also say be careful making declarations that it’s too late to do anything.* The new moment for climate change denial is now “sure we are responsible but it’s too late now” and you don’t want to add to that sad chorus.
Edit: * I wrote this before Gordon’s post above popped up. Basically I agree with him.
“Let’s be careful with that whole ‘not time critical’ thing’”
–Signed, the 2009 Democrats in the Senate
BTW, New Mexico’s 1st district is having a special election today to fill the balance of Deb Haaland’s term, since she’s now in the cabinet.
It was an expected Democratic hold.
Melanie Stansbury, the Democratic candidate looks as if she’ll win by at least the margin that Biden carried the district in 2020.
Take it away, whiz kid Harry Enten:
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At what point are the geniuses in the GOP going to realize that doubling down on the guy who never won the popular vote and lost them both houses of Congress… Is probably not a good idea?
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As soon as someone in the Republican Party can beat him in a primary.
But we all know nobody can.
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That’s the problem they have though.
Winning the primary on the GOP may just not matter, because the GOP didn’t seem to have what constitutes a winning coalition.
That would mean the GOP is simply non viable as a governing party. It might keep limping along though in a minority position, with members who care more about having their own elected positions, rather than actually governing.
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Thanks again, Dominion voting systems!
