Manchin's policy ideas suck butt and are incoherent. But he is a rich guy from West Virginia, so I understand it. Sinema could almost certainly get a sweet private sector no-show job if she'd played ball. She has overplayed the hand she thought she had.
The image of him speaking to constituents in kayaks from his yacht about why he can't pass legislation that would help millions of people in poverty is just an all-time visual metaphor. It should be hung in the Louvre and titled "21st Century American Democracy".
I think that's a reference to a John Denver song at least. I doubt Manchin is feeling as much heat even with all this shit as much as Sinema's dipshit ass.
i know its technically correct but i have never heard country roads described as "a john denver song"
That'd be good. I know he just got reelected, but can someone please primary Coons next time around? Guy sucks.
There's a HIGH likelihood that Coons is opposed to the reconciliation bill, along with probably a handful of other senators, that are just letting Sinema and Manchin be the assholes to take the heat. Coons is way up there on needing to meet his fate in the hydraulic press revolution.
They have a piece of El Paso in a new district that stretches all the way to Eagle Pass, 500 miles away
At best Yang is a dilettante. But he is probably just a narcissist who doesn’t want the hustle to ever end.
He went on Sam Harris' podcast and complained about media like MSNBC that had Biden as their favorite and refused to give Yang a shot or recognition. I wonder if the same conversation would reinforce some already angry beliefs towards left leaning media on other mediums? Going onto a far right/domestic terrorism media to discuss how the country needs to change the current political climate that gives the far right minority a majority is not exactly realpolitik.
Biden's speech yesterday was good. He highlighted the 'what kind of a country do we want to be' pretty well imo. Not that the 40% gives a shit about that tho. He needs to do more of those.
liked that he brought up the infrastructure rankings and how we lag behind other developed nations , wish networks would report w that context .
What's the current limit on number of reconciliations per year (based on the parliamentarian's mood that day)? Wasn't it limited to only one more for 2021 earlier this year?
I think you get 2 per term, but that doesnt include the debt ceiling. Im like 85% certain thats accurate.
lol anything I’ve ever seen on the impact of early childhood development indicates its critical to long term success. Can’t figure out what’s in it for companies not to have super productive workers/drones. Maybe just the benefit of the status quo and keeping people against each other
look Dems never miss a chance to not use a good opportunity to get rid of the filibuster they will take mcconnell's deal bc they are pussies
SO WEIRD how all these Green party types just so happen to run to the GOP ecosystem after they burning the democrats.
Insane priorities BURNETT: We're standing on a levee road one sweltering morning watching crews pour concrete into molds 18 feet tall. The wall will be topped with steel bollards six feet tall. They're now calling them guardrails. Customs and Border Protection says this is not a continuation of Trump's border wall. It's actually a levee wall to patch the original earthen levee that was damaged by Trump's wall contractors. But my recent visit to the construction sites seems to confirm what critics are saying. Excavators and bulldozers were tearing out undamaged levee that's only 10 years old. NICOL: They're basically using the excuse of levee repair as a loophole to continue building walls because the levees were all repaired in 2011 using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act money. BURNETT: That checks out. President Obama spent $19 million to build up the Hidalgo County levee to FEMA standards. EVERARDO VILLAREAL: I mean, we had a perfect levee. It actually did the work that it was supposed to do during one of our last hurricane events.