Althalucian
All Star
Damn. 1.5 trilli?
How will Joe Biden GOVERN? General Biden Administration F**kery Thread
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Not everything passes at once. It was almost certain everything wouldn't pass in 7 months. We don't have to lose our minds. We will be able to judge Biden accordingly throughout his term.
Democrats are virtually guaranteed to lose the House next year though.
Whatever doesn't get passed by midterms is unlikely to ever get passed under Biden's admin.
Manchin and Sinema won this round 
Democrats are virtually guaranteed to lose the House next year though.
Whatever doesn't get passed by midterms is unlikely to ever get passed under Biden's admin.
They're undefeated at this pointManchin and Sinema won this round
I guess we'll see what happens going forward. One would hope Republicans will be on board for serious discussions for popular policy proposals that benefit their constituency and ignoring Trump's threats.
We blaming the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld machine correct? Just so we are clear?
Absolutely.
GnauzBookOfRhymes
Superstar
I don't think it's a forgone conclusion that Dems are going to get fukkd in midterms.
The polls today don't matter. Ppl are in pissy moods right now. Covid is still dominating the news. The West is on fire and it's hot as fuk everywhere else. The most important thing is that everything Biden/Dems have passed has been very popular.
Over the next year, poor/working class/lower middle class families will be getting $250/300 per child every month. That is HUGE.
Obamacare premiums have gone down drastically.
Looks like they're going to pass some kind of Medicare expansion.
Infrastructure/stimulus bill will keep many sectors very busy. State/local governments are flush with money so more than likely no property tax increases etc. New school construction. No layoffs.
Job market is booming. Workers have more leverage than at anytime in recent history.
At the same time, corporate profits etc are also excellent...so you don't have the traditional back and forth tension between big business and labor.
Trump hasn't gone away so there are many races where his promotion/endorsement of a GOP candidate will be in Dem's favor. His refusal to leave the stage also allows every Dem candidate, no matter the race/state, to frame the election as a choice between Biden/Trump style politics. GOP candidates have to walk that thin line and although he doesn't have the same power as when he was in office, he still commands the loyalty of tens of millions of GOP voters.
Where Dems need to be careful and where shyt might go wrong is:
1. Not having message discipline to drive home the fact that it was the Dems responsible for all this shyt that the ppl are enjoying. Dems are notoriously terrible at communications. They get sidetracked by stupid issues and are always down to stab each other in the back.
2. BIG BIG BIG issue of rise in crime rates. I haven't looked into specific races but unless there is at least a perception that there are plans/strategies to counter the narrative of a nation gripped by runaway increases in violent crime - this is definitely something that can hurt Dem chances in some states.
The polls today don't matter. Ppl are in pissy moods right now. Covid is still dominating the news. The West is on fire and it's hot as fuk everywhere else. The most important thing is that everything Biden/Dems have passed has been very popular.
Over the next year, poor/working class/lower middle class families will be getting $250/300 per child every month. That is HUGE.
Obamacare premiums have gone down drastically.
Looks like they're going to pass some kind of Medicare expansion.
Infrastructure/stimulus bill will keep many sectors very busy. State/local governments are flush with money so more than likely no property tax increases etc. New school construction. No layoffs.
Job market is booming. Workers have more leverage than at anytime in recent history.
At the same time, corporate profits etc are also excellent...so you don't have the traditional back and forth tension between big business and labor.
Trump hasn't gone away so there are many races where his promotion/endorsement of a GOP candidate will be in Dem's favor. His refusal to leave the stage also allows every Dem candidate, no matter the race/state, to frame the election as a choice between Biden/Trump style politics. GOP candidates have to walk that thin line and although he doesn't have the same power as when he was in office, he still commands the loyalty of tens of millions of GOP voters.
Where Dems need to be careful and where shyt might go wrong is:
1. Not having message discipline to drive home the fact that it was the Dems responsible for all this shyt that the ppl are enjoying. Dems are notoriously terrible at communications. They get sidetracked by stupid issues and are always down to stab each other in the back.
2. BIG BIG BIG issue of rise in crime rates. I haven't looked into specific races but unless there is at least a perception that there are plans/strategies to counter the narrative of a nation gripped by runaway increases in violent crime - this is definitely something that can hurt Dem chances in some states.
AquaCityBoy
Veteran
washingtonpost.com
Are progressives paying attention?
Jennifer Rubin
4-5 minutes
After the Senate passes a $1 trillion hard infrastructure with more than a dozen Republican votes, it will turn to, as the New York Times reports, “a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint that would boost spending on health care, child and elder care, education and climate change while bypassing a promised Republican filibuster.” Had that sentence been written a year ago, the typical political observer probably would have thought: “Yeah, if Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) or Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) gets elected.”
And therein lies a lesson for progressives. President Biden and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) are not going to pass Medicare-for-all, wipe out all student debt or pass the sort of Green New Deal that the left-wing of the party would have liked. But these two center-left Democrats may succeed in obtaining, as the Times describes it, “a series of key liberal priorities, including ones championed by [Sanders]." This includes “an expansion of Medicare to include dental, hearing and vision benefits, the formation of a Civilian Climate Corps to address climate change, and funding to establish universal pre-K and grant free community college tuition for two years.”
President Biden was arguably the most centrist contender in the top tier of the Democratic presidential field. He was also likely the only candidate who could have beaten the disgraced former president (who extorted Ukraine in an attempt to prevent Biden from becoming his opponent). Democrats did not nominate him under the impression that he would deliver items such as Medicare-for-all. But in electing him, Democrats may well achieve the biggest gains since the Great Society or even the New Deal. The result could be a huge dent in child poverty, a more progressive tax code and a host of social programs that progressives could have only dreamed of.
“The only way to make progress in Washington is to control the White House and both houses of Congress,” says Matt Bennett from the centrist Third Way. “And the only way for Democrats to win the presidency and to build and hold congressional majorities is by moderates winning in swing districts.”
There are several points worth emphasizing. For starters, the bold agenda would not be possible without Sanders’s newfound streak of pragmatism. Unlike some on the left, he knows that getting three-fourths (or even 90 percent) of a loaf is worthwhile. In fact, it is the only real way to make substantial change in a diverse country loaded with anti-majoritarian devices.
Second, running a center-left presidential candidate likely saved the Democratic House majority. Biden at the top of the ticket allowed a host of moderate Democrats to hang on (some just barely), securing him the majority he needed to pass the agenda. “Moderates elected Joe Biden in 2020. And moderates handed Nancy Pelosi the Speaker’s gavel in 2018, when they flipped 32 of the 41 seats that changed hands,” Bennett says. “The candidates endorsed by far-left groups like Our Revolution and Justice Democrats flipped zero. They struck out again in 2020, while the moderates were busy defending the House and building a Senate majority.”
Finally, while it is fashionable to call America a “center-right” country when it comes to individual policies (e.g., vision care for Medicare recipients, subsidized child care, paid sick leave), time and again voters come down on the side of left-of-center ideas. When Democrats can forget about labeling themselves and the electorate and simply present goodies, they will be on strong-footing with voters. That, in turn, will help secure votes in Congress for what Republicans call “socialism.”
