It looks like the vote to force the rail workers back to work will get at least 70+ votes. No filibuster or parliamentarian.
[edit] 80 votes at the moment, 80-15
It looks like the vote to force the rail workers back to work will get at least 70+ votes. No filibuster or parliamentarian.
[edit] 80 votes at the moment, 80-15
Holy fuck, the Republicans crossed the aisle more unanimously than even I expected
they aren't the ones crossing the aisle though? Strike breaking is their default position.
What I mean is that the Democrats are selling this splitting the bills thing on the assumption that a single bill incorporating both wouldn't have passed. That's obviously wrong now, the Republicans would have voted for it to protect their own bottom lines. The strike would almost certainly have triggered the recession everyone has been expecting for months now.
citations needed had a good analysis on it. The democrats are splitting the bills because they want
A) to break the strike, because they are a bourgeois party with bourgeois members
B) to get the symbolic credit for trying to get the workers sick pay but not actually tying it to the strike breaking bill
If the democrats actually tied the two bills together instead of giving up their leverage, the republicans might actually call their bluff. The point for both parties is to give the workers as little as possible while pretending that they "tried"
which episode # is this?
no number, it's their most recent news brief, which is an unnumbered episode. it's funny that they called it a news brief because it runs longer than some of their mainline episodes.
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-biden-congressional-dems-partner-with-gop-media-to-discipline-rail-labor