Posted on 11/01/2021 5:24:01 PM PDT by karpov
Democrats want to vote this week on a pair of epic tax and spending bills, yet they’re still playing hide-the-ball on their multi-trillion-dollar reconciliation bill. It’s clearer than ever that the Democrats and Republicans who want to vote for the $1 trillion Senate infrastructure bill are being taken for a ride.
House progressives blocked a vote on the infrastructure bill for a second time last week, and again they did it with President Biden’s blessing. Multiple news reports say the White House gave Rep. Pramila Jayapal, head of the Progressive Caucus, the go-ahead to overrule Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desire to vote on infrastructure before Mr. Biden left for Europe. Mrs. Pelosi had to pull the bill for a second humiliating time.
Now the Congressional left is working to rewrite the "framework" accord that Mr. Biden announced last week to much triumphalism. At last, a victory for Joe! But the left says it ain’t over until Bernie Sanders sings, or at least grumbles, his assent and they’re demanding that their priorities be reinstated.
Mr. Sanders wants Medicare dental benefits restored, though he’s already won an expensive expansion to cover hearing aids. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wants a new national family leave entitlement, though the White House dropped it because Sen. Joe Manchin is opposed. Elizabeth Warren and Mrs. Pelosi want drug price controls reinstated, despite opposition from many swing-district House Democrats and some Senators.
Finance Chairman Ron Wyden says his wealth tax on billionaires still isn’t dead, though the corpse sure looks pale. And, by the way, the framework says nothing about restoring the state-and-local tax deduction, which is a priority of Democrats from high-tax states.
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The WSJ Board finally wakes up from its 20 year slumber.
“Welcome to the Party”
Once you understand that RINOs like losing, that losing is their strategy, life will become a lot clearer. You can just stop listening to their blather as irrelevant ravings of a back stabber.
How can you double cross a losing RINO who wants to be double crossed and then turns around and campaigns on the lies of the democrats who did what he asked them to do and double crossed him.
What happens if the Democrats get wiped out tomorrow?
These are the Assistant Democrats that made all of this possible
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)
Why in God’s name does WSJ want you to subscribe to read a damn article? If they’re going to have a paywall, then do it for their regular financial news reporting. There’s no need to wall off opinion or editorial pieces.
It’s, at best, a $200 Billion Infrastructure bill that costs $1 Trillion and IS NOT paid for.
They don’t care… they have another year where they can ram anything through. They will do it regardless of how badly they lose tomorrow
It’s all about the $$$
They need a rule in congress where there is a full reading of a bill on the floor, and nobody is allowed to vote yea unless they were present, awake, and not playing with their phones or talking through the 100% of the entire reading
We’ll never know, because they won’t.
Well Biden will probably poop his pants again if the infrastructure bill doesn’t pass.
“ Why in God’s name does WSJ want you to subscribe to read a damn article?”
WSJ offers a free link. Subscribers can copy a link to the article to permit those without a subscription to read that article.
The GOP vermin are not stupid. They are COMPLICIT. If they were stupid, they could possibly learn something and change for the better. They do not care about the lives of ordinary Americans except to have their votes. These vermin only care about keeping their offices and all the goodies that come with them for themselves and their families.
very discouraging.
We could still be double crossed by MurCOWski
Not only do we need term limits on candidates, we need word limits on Bills.
I support that idea. Long overdue.
The GOP could have fought for every inch and dragged this legislative session to a crawl. Like the Dems and GOP did to Trump.
That would left the Dems will little time to ram this plan through. Instead, like the Obama Iran deal, the GOP Senate greased the wheels to an awful deal and then washed their hands to carnage they abetted.
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