Posted on 10/05/2021 6:04:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
"We've got the president of the United States on our side," said Sen. Bernie Sanders Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
"Got 96% of the members of the Democratic caucus in the House on our side. We got all but two senators at this point in the Democratic caucus on our side. We're going to win this thing."
The socialist senator from Vermont may be overly optimistic about how the party deadlock on Capitol Hill unfolds. But about the balance of forces inside the party, and the direction where it is headed, Sanders is probably not wrong.
Progressive Democrats won the week.
resident Joe Biden confirmed it by casting his lot with the liberal-left on the sequencing of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and $3.5 trillion social safety net bill pending in Congress. When Biden went to the Hill Friday, it was thought he was coming to rescue and liberate the Senate-passed infrastructure bill being held hostage by progressives until they got their way on the larger bill. Progressives had threatened to sink the roads-and-bridges bill in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's House, unless they received solid assurances that both houses would simultaneously take up and approve the $3.5 trillion bill. When Biden reached the Hill, however, he threw in with the hostage-takers. He asked for a delay in House passage of his own infrastructure bill, until the demands of the progressives were addressed and met.
Pelosi agreed and has put off any House vote on the infrastructure bill until the end of October.
Biden had ditched the Biden Democrats and cast his lot with Sanders & Co. Let's hold off voting on my own infrastructure bill, until we can also deliver what the progressives demand of us, he was saying.
The real impediment blocking progress, Biden said, was two senators, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who are blocking the resolution of the issue, which is that all Democrats should agree to enact both bills.
By capitulating to the progressives' demand – which translates to, "Both bills or no bill!" – Biden revealed where he thinks the power in the party resides, where the future is, and what he wants as his legacy.
This is not the first time Biden has moved left to accommodate a rising consensus. As vice president, though a self-proclaimed devout Catholic, Biden stepped out in front of Barack 0bama to endorse same-sex marriage.
During the 2020 campaign, Biden abandoned a lifetime belief about abortion and pledged to remove the Hyde Amendment -- a restriction on federal funding of abortions -- from federal law.
Cradle Catholic Joe has become our most pro-abortion president.
But while the moderate-versus-progressive faceoff could still end in a rout for the left, the probability is that the infrastructure bill becomes law and the social safety net bill ends up between Manchin's $1.5 trillion ceiling and its current $3.5 trillion price tag.
One way to solve the sticker-price problem is through subterfuge -- reduce the duration from, say, 10 years to five, in the expectation that no future GOP administration would terminate an entitlement program upon which millions of Americans had come to depend for half a decade.
As Milton Friedman reminded us, "Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."
Nevertheless, this is truly the "transformative" legislation that The New York Times depicted as providing "a cradle-to-grave reweaving of a social safety net."
This Build Back Better bill would provide family and medical leave for illness and the birth of a child, affordable child care during infancy, two years of universal pre-kindergarten, child credits and federal income tax credits, and two years in a community college.
If passed in its present form, government will have an ever-present role in the life of a child, almost from conception until his or her early 20s.
This would also include established programs of welfare, Medicaid, aid to education, subsidized housing, rent supplements, school breakfasts and lunches, and food stamps.
If this bill does not die in the fall, what will America look like a few years hence?
Government will have expanded in both size and the numbers of employees, and in relation to a shrinking private sector. A panoply of new programs will expand eternally with the cost growing inexorably. The dependency of U.S. citizens on their government will grow.
And this doesn't even touch upon another aspect.
The IRS is to be expanded, and corporate taxes, estate taxes and capital gains taxes are to rise. Government will also step in to force a shift away from coal and oil and gas, with which the country is hugely endowed, to wager America's future on solar and wind.
Hopefully, Manchin and Sinema will employ the leverage they have to prevent the worst of the damage this historically high level of spending – with inflation already rising above 5% – will do.
But as to whether the Democrats are a Bernie party or a Biden party, Joe settled that Friday with his capitulation.
The goal of Socialism is Communism.
Biden is nothing, a shell of a person with very little cognitive ability. Biden’s handlers are Sanders Democrats. Biden’s handlers are in the best possible position for communists. They can put in place the most odious, unpalatable communist policy, and when it fails, all the blame goes to Biden.
They are both senile old coots, run by a man behind the curtain.
It would be dead already but for these progressives wearing R jerseys.
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 voted for the Trojan horse they were enabling the bigger worse one.
But this time they will do it right not like all the other failures.
Biden is demented and corrupt. He says and does what the controlling Marxist cabal tells him to say or do.
This will help the 30-50 million illegals who will get amnesty - along with record numbers of destitute, uneducated, low IQ refugees welcomed from the toilets of the world.
What's not to love?
More like Biden becomes a Mao communist.
Biden is a globalist sock puppet. Whenever they’re finished with him, they’ll just flush him and his family away.
Impeach 46.
As in Weekend With Bernie Sanders?
democrats who want to spend gobs of your money. who knew there were so many?
If Sinema and Manchin had any real integrity they would admit that the Democrat Party has been taken over by lunatics (evidenced by the invective and increasingly aggressive harassment aimed at them) and declare themselves independents who will caucus with the GOP. They have no integrity. They will cave for about $2.5 Trillion with some extra goodies for their home states. They are using their leverage to negotiate a better deal for their own careers, not because they want to protect America from the leftist madness.
Bernie controls Biden behind the curtain. He is the Wizard of Oz and Biden is the Scarecrow.
The millions of kids & adults at NFL games, College football games,, NASCAR Races shouting out by the tens of thousands from the stands.....”F—K You, Joe Biden”, tells the whole sad story of the useless, incompetent Fake POTUS, Democrat, Joe Biden!!! Sad days for the American Republic!!! Biden/Harris must go by impeachement or forced to resign immediately!!!
“ The millions of kids & adults at NFL games, College football games,, NASCAR Races shouting out by the tens of thousands from the stands.....”F—K You, Joe Biden”, tells the whole sad story of the useless, incompetent Fake POTUS, Democrat, Joe Biden!!! Sad days for the American Republic!!! Biden/Harris must go by impeachement or forced to resign immediately!!!”
I see this differently.
I see this as evidence that the people have no power in the now totalitarian state that dictates to the people. It is a sign of the weakness of the people in the new system that all they can do is chant “F Joe Biden”. They have no other power to affect the system they are oppressed under. The American Republic has been dead likely for a couple of decades now (once the new intelligence and security structure was built by the government post 9/11, the ruling class had everything it needed in perpetuity).
There will be no impeachment, no resignation, no removal. This is all bread and circuses. Our rulers are as permanent - the names and personalities may change within the ruling class…nothing else will.
He's outdone Bernie - he's more like Josef Stalin.
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