b_m_b_m_b_m Posted May 27, 2021 Author Share Posted May 27, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 The GOP is only good for raising the ambient temperature of whatever room they happen to be in, and I’m not sure all of them could do even that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Pete Buttigieg delivers infrastructure message from a bridge with a cracked steel beam WWW.CNN.COM Truck driver Clifton Hughey heard talk all his life about a potential third highway bridge to cross the Mississippi River near Memphis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 8, 2021 Author Share Posted June 8, 2021 lmao who could have seen this coming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 12 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: lmao who could have seen this coming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 1 hour ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: lmao who could have seen this coming Full article: Biden Ends Infrastructure Talks With Senate GOP Group, Saying Its Plan Fell Short WWW.NPR.ORG A statement from White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the counterproposal on one of the president's chief domestic priorities did not "meet the essential needs... "He offered his gratitude to her for her efforts and good faith conversations, but expressed his disappointment that, while he was willing to reduce his plan by more than $1 trillion, the Republican group had increased their proposed new investments by only $150 billion." Why keep going lower with these cats? reconciliation and dare Manchin to vote against it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 3 minutes ago, SaysWho? said: Why keep going lower with these cats? reconciliation and dare Manchin to vote against it Maybe because it's not just Manchin, and he's pulling a McConnell and letting every other Democrat who doesn't want to vote for it hide behind him while he takes the flak since he thinks taking the flak plays well back home anyhow. But force his hand and you force the rest of their hands when they can't just hide behind him any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 43 minutes ago, Jason said: Maybe because it's not just Manchin, and he's pulling a McConnell and letting every other Democrat who doesn't want to vote for it hide behind him while he takes the flak since he thinks taking the flak plays well back home anyhow. But force his hand and you force the rest of their hands when they can't just hide behind him any more. This is just paraphrasing what a tweet here said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 30 minutes ago, SaysWho? said: This is just paraphrasing what a tweet here said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaladinSolo Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 This guy really is a republican right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 9, 2021 Author Share Posted June 9, 2021 6 minutes ago, PaladinSolo said: This guy really is a republican right? It's how they justified the tax cuts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 15, 2021 Author Share Posted June 15, 2021 dumb dumbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 1 hour ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: dumb dumbs Go back to the GOP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 17, 2021 Author Share Posted June 17, 2021 if that's the two page summary it sucks and is a bad idea. Gas tax increase is particularly bad politics, far outweighing the "good" of bipartisanship Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 trash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 24, 2021 Author Share Posted June 24, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 Quote Pelosi: Make sure you understand this... there ain’t gonna be no bipartisan bill unless we are going to have the reconciliation bill. Double negative. So there IS going to be a bipartisan bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jwheel86 Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 Disability community, screwed again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 24, 2021 Author Share Posted June 24, 2021 2 hours ago, mclumber1 said: Double negative. So there IS going to be a bipartisan bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 24, 2021 Author Share Posted June 24, 2021 bipartisan bill^ Big deal if true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 24, 2021 Author Share Posted June 24, 2021 selling off infra is bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/06/24/us/joe-biden-news.amp.html Deal made. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/06/24/us/joe-biden-news.amp.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 And as stated above, he’ll sign it as long as reconciliation bill comes with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 So this is $1 trillion less than his initial proposal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 Just now, SaysWho? said: And as stated above, he’ll sign it as long as reconciliation bill comes with it. For the other $1 trillion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 Just now, Jason said: So this is $1 trillion less than his initial proposal? The compromise is. Democrats look to pass the rest via reconciliation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 Is the child tax credit getting renewed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 Just now, Jason said: For the other $1 trillion? But it would leave large swaths of the president’s economic proposals — including much of his proposed spending to combat climate change, along with investments in child care, education and other social programs — for a potential future bill that Democrats would try to pass without any Republican votes using a procedural mechanism known as reconciliation. On Capitol Hill, Democrats signaled openness to accepting the initial details of the agreement, provided that their moderate colleagues accept a second, much larger reconciliation package. “There ain’t no infrastructure bill without the reconciliation bill,” Ms. Pelosi told reporters on Thursday, repeating a comment she had made privately on a call with House Democratic leaders, according to two officials familiar with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 2 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: selling off infra is bad Australia still sells off infrastructure. They started privatizing certain highways with (I suppose) the idea being that the money from those acquisitions funding new highways, which makes total sense and isn't stupid at all. Privatizing any public utilities is bad. They exist to serve people, not to make money from an inherently captive market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 Some more info in the separate bill: Biden backs $1.2tn infrastructure bill but places big condition WWW.BBC.COM But the US president says he will only sign it if a separate, far bigger budget bill can be passed. Quote What would be in the separate bill? The president wants to enact another, roughly $6tn spending package that would roll in his party's priorities on climate change, education, paid leave and childcare benefits. It is being drafted by Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist. That measure is expected to include tax increases on the wealthy and corporations. It would be passed by a budget reconciliation process that would not require any Republican votes in the Senate. The most powerful Democrat in the US House of Representatives, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, made clear they would not pass one bill without the other. "There ain't going to be a bipartisan bill without a reconciliation bill," Mrs Pelosi said. Mr Biden echoed that sentiment in later remarks from the East Room of the White House: "If this is the only thing that comes to me, I'm not signing it. It's in tandem." Quote Now, after extended negotiations, it appears that the White House has found a way to work with a handful of Senate Republicans to pass an infrastructure spending package. It's not the "epiphany" candidate Biden promised would occur among conservatives during his presidency, but for a White House that has laboured for a deal, it's a start. There are still many ways this agreement could go sideways, however. Mr Biden's strategy of passing this bipartisan legislation alongside a more ambitious Democrat-only package of spending on social programmes will be a tricky dance. If the former fails, centrist Democrats may vote against the liberal agenda. If Democrats can't stick together on the latter, then progressive senators - growing wary of this administration - could scuttle the former. Mr Biden, a veteran of the US Senate, likes to boast that he knows how the chamber operates. The next few months will more than test his skills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 25, 2021 Author Share Posted June 25, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 Sam Stein was probably very excited to type that as he misses Trump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 25, 2021 Author Share Posted June 25, 2021 46 minutes ago, SaysWho? said: Sam Stein was probably very excited to type that as he misses Trump. Some journalists just can't get over the man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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