If this deal passes, Biden will have inked wins on:
Drug pricing Climate/ACA $$ Higher taxes on corporations $1.9T Covid rescue plan $1.2T infrastructure law New gun law Chips/China bill KBJ on SCOTUS 73+ lower court judges VAWA re-up Postal reform
1) biggest investment in native communities in history 2) cutting child poverty in half 3) justice and financial help for black farmers 3) money for vaccinations 4) rent relief 5) direct cash 6) money to prevent layoffs in local govt. Elections. Have. Consequences.
democrats need to understand that the public does not care about procedure, only results. there are no points for following the rules, no referee that will call foul on the other team. do what you need to do, and campaign on the results.
The Chris Wallace interview with WH Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney this morning would, under normal circumstances, be indistinguishable from a comedic bit.
The President used taxpayer funded assistance to pressure the leader of a foreign government to investigate his political opponents to benefit his re-election, and enlisted the State Dept and DoJ in that effort. We know this from documents. Everything else is noise.
Electoral college talk is fun/interesting/impt eventually. I should point out that if the 2018 House results (taking into account uncontested races) were broken down by electoral votes... You get this... Not very close.
Highest debt since WW2 and what America got in return was historic handouts to the wealthiest, less and more expensive health care, accelerating destruction of the climate, embrace of foes and rejection of allies and some racism thrown in for good measure.
We know what Trump is doing. He stokes racism. He incites violence. We shouldn’t be asking if there’s anything he can do or if he’s responsible for this when we know the answer. I stand by what I said.
What we want - climate action, better healthcare, affordable college, LGBTQ rights, protecting social security - all of it polls at way higher than 50 percent. No one has any business calling any of this extreme. OUR. IDEAS. ARE. POPULAR. We are the mainstream.
So it’s bad that Elizabeth Warren thought she was part Native American, was wrong about it and apologized but we’re all cool with the president of the United States making Trail of Tears jokes? Which one of these is the scandal?