The House Suicide Squad’s Nonsensical Reason to Kill Biden’s Agenda

NY Rag ^ | 8/17/21 | Jonathan Chiat

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Nine House Democrats are refusing to support the budget plan containing Joe Biden’s signature domestic agenda. The leader of the renegade caucus, New Jersey Democrat Josh Gottheimer, gave an interview with Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman about his strategy. The reasons Gottheimer put forward for his rebellion were nonsensical.

Gottheimer’s demand is that the House hold a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill before it proceeds on the larger Biden plan. Why is it so urgent to vote on this bill now that Gottheimer is willing to vote down the Democrats budget?

Gottheimer explained that the infrastructure bill is a “great, historic, once-in-a-century” bill that must be signed immediately. “We’ve got to get shovels in the ground, you’re talking about two million jobs a year for the next ten years,” he told Sherman. “If you’re in Jersey, where I live, one-third of our bridges are unsafe, third-worst roads in the country.”

So the putative argument is that roads and bridges are about to disintegrate, and they have to be repaired immediately so that the New Jersey drivers cowering in their homes for fear that their next trip to the mall will end in catastrophic collapse can venture out again.

What Gottheimer’s audience may not realize is that, between permitting, environmental review, and so on, construction projects take a fair amount of time to get started. Indeed, this bill spreads out its spending over a full decade. It seems bizarre to insist that a ten-year plan to upgrade physical infrastructure is so urgent that it must be signed into law immediately, rather than waiting a few months.

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BOTH bills need to be voted down and EVERY Assistant Democrat that assisted needs to be removed from office.

Dan Sullivan (R-AK) Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) Mike Crapo (R-ID) Roy Blunt (R-MO) Richard Burr (R-NC) Deb Fischer (R-NE) Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Rob Portman (R-OH) Thom Tillis (R-NC) Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Jim Risch (R-ID) Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Bill Cassidy (R-LA) Kevin Cramer (R-ND) Roger Wicker (R-MS) Mitch McConnell (R-KY) John Hoeven (R-ND) Susan Collins (R-ME) Mitt Romney (R-UT)

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Jonathan Chait: an American LEFT-leaning writer for the New York Magazine and an occasional column for the Los Angeles Times. Previously a senior editor at The New Republic and assistant editor of The American Prospect.

Not all bad as he favors more Charter Schools (his wife is a lobbyist for them) and has a long history against political correctness as suppression of free speech; "a system of left-wing ideological repression". He has since broadened that criticism to the internet and social media.

Here, it appears to me that he is following the Administration line as these 9 'D's are slowing the 'ramming speed' needed for this dam-burst bill!