Most Republicans in Congress couldn’t even cast a bipartisan vote to certify Biden’s election. How are they going to cast bipartisan votes on voting rights, immigration, infrastructure, or any other nuanced policy?
Townie and Junebug need to get out with that nonsense unless Townie explains how Bernie would have gotten Manchin’s vote and Junebug explains how to work with people 100% dedicated to your failure.
Right now, the math works against Democrats. The 2022 Senate map is more favorable if Democrats show up.
I'm not so interested in what can be done within the context of some arcane procedural nonsense with the parliamentarian or even with the bully pulpit to sway public opinion and convince our DINO senators to start voting the party line.
What I'm interested in is why nobody in the ~~liberal media~~ holds him to account for missing a ton of campaign promises that could have been enacted via some combination of executive order and simply administering his own cabinet positions.
Take, for example, the leaked conversation with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from when Biden was simply President-Elect. They asked for some very simple and straightforward provisions to be taken out of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and administered via
either the DOJ or through executive order (such as creation of a federal database of police killings).
I'm interested in why, if he was the guy who could start working on prescription drug reform, or the watered down lowering of the Medicare age to 60 (Hilary even proposed 55 as recently as 2016), or the fight for a public option as part of a legislative or executive action regarding health during the largest health crisis in modern American history, why has he made no strides? And has he not lost the public impetus for that conversation? When is the next appropriate time? The next budget reconciliation? When any new entitlement must by definition sunset in 10 years? Similarly, Democrats are already positioning themselves as sympathetic to management rather than labor in the discussion of the $15 minimum wage and the return to work, and we're not even fully past this pandemic yet. What happens when the pandemic is over and any leverage the left had to sway mass public opinion wanes, because people just want to get a burger quickly?
Why run cover for him, too? For four years it was "don't criticize the Dems, we've got to get Trump out, he's the real bad guy." Now it's "don't criticize the Dems, it's Manchin/the GOP obstructionists" and in 2022 when the Congress is even more precarious, what is the message then, to the still suffering?