Posted on 12/17/2021 2:41:48 PM PST by cotton1706
Anger is growing in Democratic ranks over the failure to get President Joe Biden's sweeping agenda through this year despite unified control of Congress, with their party already bracing for what could be a brutal Election Day in next November's midterms.
Major issues they promised to deliver on, such as a bill to overhaul voting laws, stand virtually no chance of becoming law. And the biggest ticket item -- the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better plan to dramatically expand the social safety net -- which is still mired in talks with West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, has yet to be drafted into final legislative text or even fully vetted by the Senate parliamentarian.
Despite major accomplishments this year, such as passage of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure law and the nearly $2 trillion Covid relief package amid razor thin majorities in both chambers, there's a palpable sense of frustration among Democrats that much more should have been accomplished -- especially given the array of promises they made to their voters and the self-imposed deadlines set by their leaders that have blown.
Liberals are angry that they agreed to delink the infrastructure package from the Build Back Better bill -- which they had for months insisted be passed in tandem before relenting under pressure from their leaders and Biden himself. Democrats of all stripes say they're alarmed by the actions of GOP-led states to restrict voting access, yet they don't have the votes in the Senate to overcome a Republican filibuster to enact their a federal law. Other Democratic priorities, such as overhauling gun laws, have fallen by the wayside and completely off the agenda.
And all that comes amid this grim reality: Democrats face bleak prospects of holding the House next year and chances that the Senate could flip, too.
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The headline is needlessly long.
Senate sucks
They’re really not going to be happy after next November.
I thought the ‘Rats stole two Senate seats in 2020.
Coming from the Democrats who tried to thwart President Trump’s policies at every turn.
Why are Democrats always characterized as “angry” unless they get what they want? Isn’t that an unhealthy mental attitude? Shouldn’t they sometimes be “accepting” or “defeated” or “determined”? Nope. Always “angry”. Like this is their default state.
Red States should stop sending Democrats to DC
“...unless they get what they want?”
ALL that they want.
Compromise?? Let the losers in the GOP do that.
there.
fixed it.
Fixed it.
Whatever.
I was not cognizant enough of fine points to assess the Senate in the 1981-1986 time frame.
Since then I think the kindest adjective it may have been entitled to at the best of times was “useless”.
Any old-timers here able to remember back to the days of Jeremiah Denton and the other members of the class that came in with Reagan?
If people wanted their plan they would win in 2022. They are in trouble because people don’t like their plan and results.
As Teddy Roosevelt said, “When they call the roll in the Senate the Senators don’t know whether to respond with “Here” or “Not guilty”.
No problem. The mail-in ballots will solve everything.
Gosh, if they’d only stolen a couple of more we’d be living in paradise.
“If people wanted their plan they would win in 2022. They are in trouble because people don’t like their plan and results.”
That never occurs to the commies who write this crap.
“Any old-timers here able to remember back to the days of Jeremiah Denton and the other members of the class that came in with Reagan?”
I do.
Hawkins (Fl), Rudman (NH), East (NC), Mattingly (Ga), etc.
Democrat method of vote counting:
“One vote for you.”
“Two votes for me.”
“One vote for you.”
“Two votes for me.”
Continue until Democrats win.
Bastille II cannot happen soon enough. Please televise. It’s gonna be HUUUUUUUGE.
Don’t forget Steve Symms of Idaho, who beat Frank Church.
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