Posted on 02/28/2021 10:10:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Radicals in Congress are frustrated and angry at President Joe Biden over the Senate parliamentarian’s decision to exclude the minimum wage increase from the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill passed by the House on Saturday. And the radicals believe it’s only going to get worse.
Many of the bills being considered in the House now may never see the light of day in the Senate because of legislative rules that have developed over centuries and were designed to protect the rights of the minority. Democrats didn’t mind those rules when they were in the minority. But now that they could get a simple majority in the Senate on just about any bill, they see the rules as anti-Democratic and designed to slow the progress of social justice.
They are blaming the president because he and some of his allies in the Senate leadership have forbidden the radicals from initiating sweeping rules changes that would allow them to fulfill their promises to constituents and radically transform the United States.
Progressives are warning that without making significant rules changes, they’re going to face a “Groundhog Day” of watching bills they championed — and their voters supported — pass the House but die in the 50-50 Senate, where Democrats control the majority.
“It’s not just about minimum wage,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told reporters. “Democrats made a lot of promises in winning the House, the Senate and the White House. And it’s going to come up again and again.”
Democrats, she added, face a choice: “Are we going to stick to these rules, or are we actually going to use the levers of government to work for the people?”
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Biden/Harris is a FAR Left regime.
The Left for which nothing of the old extreme Left is extreme to them anymore has blovated.
Exactly when aren’t these demonic POS scum angry?
They will change the rules whenever they feel like doing so.
Just back off and watch...
If you fight 'em, it causes them to stick together.
Wait until they're divided then co-opt the most sane group.
I suppose we have to drag along all the non believers and uneducated voters to prove a point, the destruction of this country. Some will be joyfull and others will look to blame it on everyone else but themselevs
The countdown is on, Kamala Harris might become POTUS before the summer at this pace...
And the focus very slowly starts to turn to getting Biden out and Harris in ... All on schedule. Who will be the first to publicly turn on Slow Joe? Will it be done in the mainstream media or on social media? Will it be an elected official or a lib pundit? This is all about to play out. The GOP should be making plans to capitalize on it. They probably aren’t, but we can hope.
“Are we going to stick to these rules, or are we actually going to use the levers of government to work for the people?”
Those rules are the levers of government that work for the people.
Well said Amorphous.
Yeah, the whole Bernie/AOC crowd ain’t gonna be too interested in the media’s new focus......”Can’t you talk some sense into all your Trump supporting relatives, neighbors, and coworkers, and convince them how great Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney are? Wasn’t it great to see Obama and Bush being so friendly at Biden’s inauguration?”
Lol
There, corrected it.
It’s a silly game they play. It’s how Chuck Schumer has made a career out of pandering to the left even while he’s serving as Wall Street’s paid b!tch in Washington.
What sort of fake-news bull**** is this? Biden is running as wild-eyed crazy to the left as he possibly could.
There are no moderate Democrats.
A few play them on TV and then do what Nancy tells them to do.
Joe where’s my free dough?
Radicals in that party NEVER have had patience.
Myth # 01
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