BREAKING: Sen. Joe Manchin (https://t.co/EHSclJLRrQ.) says "absolutely not" to a round of $2,000 stimulus checks Biden promised to approve $2K checks if Georgia Dems won their Senate races. Pelosi and Schumer also on boardW/ @ericawerner @mikedebonis https://t.co/IjsVMI3kD6— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) January 8, 2021
Yep we're going to go from "We will pass checks immediately" to several months of this kind of shit. They're going to bungle the one thing that happened under Trump and 2022 will be a bloodbath. People in the comments hoping at least one or two Republicans will step in. I have a feeling they're going to rally and stop bipartisan efforts though. It's in their interests to gum up the Democrat machine now they're the minority. Suddenly the bipartisan support for checks will evaporate and the confused conservatives who think they're Democrats will refuse to support it. Then it dies and now the Biden admin must sell that outcome. The media will jump behind it. All the people demanding Drumpf give relief will turn into people who think relief isn't needed. It's going to be a shit show.
Yeah he might. I guess it mainly depends on how many of the Republican senators are actually feeling pressure from the riot. It would be an easy PR thing for a few of them to support it and get it passed. Then they can say they're being bipartisan and trying to move on from a era of division and hatred. But at the same time, strategically, they have to go back to Obama mode. With the Senate being so close and Dems needing at least one or two Senators to get stuff done, that means Republicans hold some power. If they operate as a group, with one or two superficially playing the bipartisan, then Republicans can have a lot of say. And the conservative members of the Dem party will more readily work with and be on the side of Republicans than their own party. So it's like winning GA barely counted for something because the right wing people already in the party canceled it out. Now we're still having to rely on a few good Republicans to help do stuff. McConnell will be able to use that.
So on the one hand we might get $1400 checks just to put this Capitol Hill stuff behind us. On the other, we might not get anything for months or a year. Or at all. It depends on how the Dems can sell this as actually being a good thing. And how willing they are to play chicken with progressives in the party and leftists on the streets. I'm just going to be doomer about it until $2000 is in my bank account.
Yep we're going to go from "We will pass checks immediately" to several months of this kind of shit. They're going to bungle the one thing that happened under Trump and 2022 will be a bloodbath. People in the comments hoping at least one or two Republicans will step in. I have a feeling they're going to rally and stop bipartisan efforts though. It's in their interests to gum up the Democrat machine now they're the minority. Suddenly the bipartisan support for checks will evaporate and the confused conservatives who think they're Democrats will refuse to support it. Then it dies and now the Biden admin must sell that outcome. The media will jump behind it. All the people demanding Drumpf give relief will turn into people who think relief isn't needed. It's going to be a shit show.
Hawley might do it just to try and restore some part of his reputation.
Yeah he might. I guess it mainly depends on how many of the Republican senators are actually feeling pressure from the riot. It would be an easy PR thing for a few of them to support it and get it passed. Then they can say they're being bipartisan and trying to move on from a era of division and hatred. But at the same time, strategically, they have to go back to Obama mode. With the Senate being so close and Dems needing at least one or two Senators to get stuff done, that means Republicans hold some power. If they operate as a group, with one or two superficially playing the bipartisan, then Republicans can have a lot of say. And the conservative members of the Dem party will more readily work with and be on the side of Republicans than their own party. So it's like winning GA barely counted for something because the right wing people already in the party canceled it out. Now we're still having to rely on a few good Republicans to help do stuff. McConnell will be able to use that.
So on the one hand we might get $1400 checks just to put this Capitol Hill stuff behind us. On the other, we might not get anything for months or a year. Or at all. It depends on how the Dems can sell this as actually being a good thing. And how willing they are to play chicken with progressives in the party and leftists on the streets. I'm just going to be doomer about it until $2000 is in my bank account.
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