Inflation Reduction Act: 8/12/22 - $740B Bill PASSES, Biden signs it into law!

[Secure Da Bag]

That said, I'm the first to admit he should've done more in that first two years, not pushing the public option through was a huge mistake. Dems also dropped the ball in 2010 on voter turnout. Part of the problem, and I complained about it at the time, was that Obama spent too much time trying to pander to Republicans who were going to hate him regardless. Didn't make him any more popular with them and just demotivated the Dem base instead.

IIRC, the Joe Manchin of that time was Joe Lieberman. And he's the one who forced Obama to go from public option to Obamacare. If I'm not mistaken, Ted Kennedy had left the Senate that broke the supermajority.

 

[mastermind]

IIRC, the Joe Manchin of that time was Joe Lieberman. And he's the one who forced Obama to go from public option to Obamacare. If I'm not mistaken, Ted Kennedy had left the Senate that broke the supermajority.

Obama never put it on the table. He had no interest in it, especially after Kennedy died.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Obama never put it on the table. He had no interest in it, especially after Kennedy died.

I'm pretty sure he did.

 

[Rice N Beans]

Nap puts a weighted item on the left button.

 

[FAH1223]

Some of them are coming around

 

[wire28]

It seems that Bernie was speaking for those Senators and even Biden with calling these two out

maybe biden is having bernie do it for him

this is 4D intergalatic chess, not red fish blue fish

this shyt too easy

 

[the cac mamba]

Manchinema sounds like something godzilla had to fight in the 80s

 

[mastermind]

I'm pretty sure he did.

He didn’t

He did that vague shyt where he made it seem like he supported it, but he never did.

PolitiFact - Public option was in Obama's platform

 

[FAH1223]

 

[AquaCityBoy]

"Carefully reviewing" = "Waiting for her donors to pay her not to vote for it."

 

[FAH1223]

"Carefully reviewing" = "Waiting for her donors to pay her not to vote for it."

Ryan Grim in this interview says we're in the beginning of the 4th quarter regarding the infrastructure bills. He says the VA Governor Race on November 2, 2021 is probably the soft deadline as Terry McAullife may not win.

He talks about Bob Woodward's new book detailing Biden telling Manchin back in March "you're gonna tank my bill, you're gonna fukking ruin my presidency, Joe!" before the American Rescue Plan passed. Manchin was saying he wasn't gonna tank it. That's at 13:00 minute mark. He also says Manchin is motivated to get this bill passed because in 2017, when McConnell at one point didn't have 50 votes for the tax cuts, Manchin was willing to vote for it and make it a bipartisan effort. Manchin had his amendment ideas and pet projects he wanted to insert. Then McConnell told him that he had 50 votes and didn't need him. Manchin was pissed and he wants to do the tax reform stuff now to get back at Mitch and Trump for sidelining him in 2017

Then at 16:23 mark he talks about Sinema and her rightward shift

 

[FAH1223]

 

[storyteller]

The latest Democrat to receive a flood of pharma cash (campaign-archive.com)

Amgen executives seem to really like Kyrsten Sinema

The drug maker Amgen showered Krysten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who has recently spoken out against her party’s drug pricing proposals, with more than $20,000 in political donations over the course of just 10 days, a STAT review of Federal Election Commission data reveals.

The donations, which were made in late June, primarily came from the company’s top officials, including CEO Robert Bradway and several of the company’s senior vice presidents, including its head of lobbying, Victoria Blatter. Sinema also received a $2,000 donation from Amgen’s political action committee over the course of those 10 days.

The donations to Sinema stand out because the executives who showered her with campaign cash gave so few to other politicians this year. Bradway, the Amgen CEO, has only given to one other politician this year, and the majority of the other executives haven’t given to any individual politicians at all.

The donations are also the latest example of drug industry executives personally donating to the small group of moderate Democrats who have raised concerns with the drug pricing proposals being considered in Congress. Drug industry CEOs have showered other moderate Democrats, like Sen. Bob Menendez (N.J.) and Rep. Scott Peters (Calif.), with similar bursts of campaign cash.

A spokesperson for Amgen declined to comment. A spokesperson for Sinema did not respond to request for comment.

Italicized the bit about some of the other Dems getting money that might turn problematic. I'm living in Jersey, Menendez has always been sketchy (he does show up to support the Verizon workers when their union moves though so credit there).

 

[FAH1223]

5 year deal is $1.75T with everything

 

[radio rahiem]

5 year deal is $1.75T with everything

Let’s see if the progressive caucus likes this.