Posted on 08/28/2021 7:02:23 PM PDT by 11th_VA
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made an unusual admission this week - one that essentially gives the Senate the upper hand in drafting details of President Joe Biden's ambitious $3.5 trillion plan to expand social safety-net programs.
"We write a bill with the Senate, I because it's no use our doing a bill that is not going to pass the Senate," "In the interest of getting things done, results, getting results."…
One result of this streamlined approach to writing the legislation is that it will reinforce the power of centrist Senate Democrats, particularly Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who have already held outsized influence over the first two major agenda items for Biden: the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package and the roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the Senate earlier this month...
By limiting themselves only to things that can win the support of all 50 members of the Senate Democratic caucus, aggressive proposals such as providing a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants may never get to the starting line...
But a pair of veteran House Democrats forced the other part of the deal, essentially mandating that House and Senate Democrats do a "preconference" on their proposals to match up their plans before either chamber holds a vote…
Those rules, and Manchin's ability to exploit his position in the 50-50 Senate, have made pushing the most liberal policies on the table relatively pointless. After voting for the Senate version of the budget proposal, Manchin announced he would not support a final bill that actually spent $3.5 trillion.
As veteran moderates explain it, they are done with the idea of voting for provisions that expose them to political risk that are not going to end up becoming law...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Make Joe Manchin an offer he cannot refuse to switch parties. Do it now when Biden is at his weakest.
AOC is just a very dumb actress .
She can not finish a sentence without cue cards .
Dumb as a door knob.
Sorry door knobs .
Her Commie owners will decide .
They had vest reserve some money to rebuild whatever gets walloped by Ida
You just reminded me - that FEMA money was how Trump got around the Rats last year in providing unemployment - when Pelosi blocked him. I fear they will ‘Bulk Up’ FEMA again to do the same …
He won’t switch parties. He likes the position he’s in, where he can vote no when it’s a sure thing anyway so he can claim that he represented his constituents, while at the same time playing along with the party.
There are no centrist democrats.
This. Not sure why FReepers keep putting hope in Manchin and Sinema.
“Centrist Democrats”?
Center of WHAT?
We’re lucky Sinema swings both ways
Sad that we are forced to rely on Democrats to screw this up.
These are the Assistant Democrats that enabled the latest assault on the USA
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)
They knew when they were voting for the $1.2 trillion they were enabling the bigger, worse one.
Hello to trillion dollar deficits for eternity.
I post these stories to keep people informed about the ‘politics’ behind the legislative bodies. I don’t necessarily put ‘hope’ in Manchin and Sinema, but There is a very interesting dynamic that could sink these bill. I don’t believe Sinema will support Amnesty, nor Joe support the Green New Deal, nor either of them support 3.5T in new spending; conversely, I expect Bush and AOC to derail the infrastructure bill, if they don’t get the Green New Deal, Amnesty, and a host of other goodies. Just keeping folks informed
The Dems have to get this thing passed before it becomes too obvious that they’re going to lose both houses in 2022.
There are no moderates in the Democrat party.
They lost both houses and the White House in 2020 if only legal votes are counted.
My read is the WaPo is taking a shot across the bow of the Dem holdouts.
100% Correct.
Plus, how long does any one think it would be, before the demonRATs converted any of the weak pubbies to switch over and join them.
There is a long list of cheezey pubbies that would flip in a heartbeat, once Manchin made it politically acceptable.
You know that the msm would cheer lead them and provide any cover they needed.
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