This bill will be stripped down to just hand outs for corporatations and Sanders will sign it.
Any analysis that fails to recognize the party's (and Biden's) refusal to use any leverage at all against their supposed two-person right flank is going to be garbage.
They're being efficient is what they are. Making do with only two heels to carry the whole show
They need two Senators to match the scapegoatee power of a single Lieberman.
Someone on :reddit-logo: linked this ten year old Glen Greenwald article that really spells it out
Instead, he said that right now he must give some ground, then resume pushing for more.
I’m prepared to do the things that can get done now that can begin to change the lives of ordinary Americans to give them a fighting chance and come back and try to get others later,” the president said.
so now we have a president who is openly acknowledging that he's leaving people twisting in the wind. they said he knew how to mourn!
He said direct dental coverage could be replaced with $800 vouchers and the hearing aid cost problem is solving itself as hearing aids are now being sold over the counter “at Walgreens” and not for thousands of dollars, either. Of vision coverage, he said, “we’re working on it.”
just some geriatric fool who's completely disconnected from the real world, telling us some bullshit about it.
And in an effort to cut costs, which Manchin demands, too, paid family and parental leave would be for four weeks, not 12, Biden conceded
the winning never starts. notice how Warren and Bernie aren't throwing their weight around, despite being 2 senators.
Forced to choose between funding pre-K education for all kids or two free years of community college tuition, Biden chose the kids—a choice experts in the field say is more beneficial in the long run
i allowed my opponent to put me in some preposterous double bind where he's the Joker and I can only save the pre-K education OR the community colleges!