Posted on 11/05/2021 2:57:03 PM PDT by Paladin2
The House Progressive Caucus has drawn scorn for its hardball tactic of holding up the bipartisan infrastructure bill in order to pressure moderate Democrats to support President Biden’s larger climate and social policy initiatives. “The liberals’ tactics,” observed the New York Times last month, “were reminiscent of those employed by the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, whose members routinely threatened to withhold their bloc of votes unless Republican leaders met their demands.”
The Freedom Caucus has cultivated a toxic reputation in Washington for its destructive predilections, issuing impossible and constantly changing demands with no clear goal except derailing legislation of almost any kind. The progressives’ critics turned the comparisons to the Freedom Caucus into a shorthand for their belief the liberal faction was acting irrationally. The complaints were especially loud from Never Trump Republicans who, having fled the GOP, saw in the far left the same kind of destructive purism that had wrecked their former party.
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I can't think of one problem they have solved.
Progressives are bonkers.
The fat bloated cretin Jonathan Chait.
Only in a world where Up is Down, Black is White, and Communism is acceptable.
Lots of adjectives. They’re lying.
Well, I guess that's that then.
NYC's braintrust doesn't see any problems.
...right. you guys haven’t advanced broken marxist ideas. That’s not a legacy open for scrutiny at all...
Moderation in the face of evil is no virtue.
-— Goldwater -—
The author.
They got it exactly the other way round. The more they lose (like they did on Tuesday), the crazier they get.
Definitely NOT sane.
I guess he was on the losing end of a bathroom stall glory hole.
This is the same vile POS who was taunting people who are having trouble with grocery bills.
The author Jonathan Chait is ultra-right wing who has been spewing garbage for years that favors Marxist radicals.
See 23. below.
JournoList - 122 NAMES CONFIRMED (WITH NEWS ORGANIZATIONS)
Jul 25, 2010,
1. Spencer Ackerman - Wired, FireDogLake, Washington Independent,
Talking Points Memo, The American Prospect
2. Thomas Adcock - New York Law Journal
3. Ben Adler - Newsweek, POLITICO
4. Mike Allen - POLITICO
5. Eric Alterman - The Nation, Media Matters for America
6. Marc Ambinder - The Atlantic
7. Greg Anrig - The Century Foundation
8. Ryan Avent - Economist
9. Dean Baker - The American Prospect
10. Nick Baumann - Mother Jones
11. Josh Bearman - LA Weekly
12. Steven Benen - The Carpetbagger Report
13. Ari Berman - The Nation
14. Jared Bernstein - Economic Policy Institute
15. Michael Berube - Crooked Timer, Pennsylvania State University
16. Brian Beutler - The Media Consortium
17. Lindsay Beyerstein - Freelance journalist
18. Joel Bleifuss - In These Times
19. John Blevins - South Texas College of Law
20. Sam Boyd - The American Prospect
21. Will Bunch - Philadelphia Daily News
22. Rich Byrne - Playwright
23. Jonathan Chait - The New Republic
satirical. or you’re dyslexic. right-wing?
That sounds like a reasonable goal.
Oh, yes, of course...saying things like if you lose $27 billion you have gained $3 billion is a genius thing to say.
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I’m here for the comedic relief. The headline alone was good for a laugh.
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