Gilda Cobb-Hunter is furious with fellow Democrats. A veteran social worker, civil rights activist and the longest-serving member of the South Carolina House, she is losing patience with the infighting that has stalled efforts to enact the agenda the party sold to voters.
“I am seething at how Democrats continuously revert to the circular firing squad method of governing,” she said. “I just don’t understand it. I don’t understand why we continue to do that.”
As Democrats in Washington struggle through contentious negotiations over a sweeping domestic policy proposal, many party activists and officials across the country are watching with a collective head-shake and mounting anxiety.
They see Democrats in control of the White House and Congress, yet so far unable to resolve their differences over a multitrillion-dollar infrastructure and social safety net package.
They see in President Biden a candidate who ran on unity but is now plagued by intraparty divisions. In House and Senate Democratic leaders, they see competing priorities and a reluctance to get their members in line.
[…]
While many Democrats said individual provisions, if passed, will be popular and give the party strong arguments for reelection in the midterms, they acknowledge that the package has become a hodgepodge of climate, health-care and education initiatives that many Americans have only a vague sense of.
When Democrats talk about it, they tend to single out the provisions that appeal to them and the slice of the party they represent. Pelosi has long had a diplomatic way of describing the differences of opinion in her party — which she returned to in recent days.
“We are the Democratic Party. That’s who we are,” she said. “The beauty is in the mix.”
Democrats monitoring the situation from afar described the situation differently.
“We have power, and we haven’t done anything with it,” Bagniewski said.
Republicans are the party of corporate greed and broken infrastructure.
Roll back the tRUMPsky tax cuts, and, make the top earners actually pay tax to help rebuild the physical infrastructure in which they rely for their businesses to operate.
I agree with Gilda Cobb-Hunter – and I blame DINOs like Manchin and Sinema in the Senate and the far right and far left Reps in the House who are not engaging in compromise on the big pieces of legislation to get bills that will pass as reconciliation measures and further blame Manchin, Sinema and those chickenshit unnamed Senators who insist that retaining the filibuster is more important than protecting the right to vote and the democratic process that would allow the majority party to govern. News flash … the next time repugs a have 50 votes in the Senate and a repug president the filibuster will be gone.
“McConaughey, an Oscar-winning actor and Texas native, has said he is considering running for governor, though he has not said whether he’d run as a Republican or Democrat or done much else to elaborate on how he would position himself politically. Despite that, a poll released over the weekend found McConaughey leading Abbott by 9 percentage points. “
If I had ta guess, it would be that Matty is a Republican.
“The fight in front of us right now is the one that we’re talking about today in Texas right now, given what’s going on,” O’Rourke said. “Given the deep damage and chaos and incompetence that is connected to Greg Abbott — from the winter freeze, the abortion ban, the permitless carry, the anti-mask mandate, the terrible toll that COVID has taken on this state and where it has decimated populations along the border, like in my hometown of El Paso — this is what we need to be focused on right now.”
BETO has been working voter registration drives across the state, so folks know who he is and that he’s a true, blue Democrat.
pogo, let’s hope that good news doesn’t put a damper on the quest to get everyone vaccinated. no time to let down guard on that ’cause sure as hell come the fall breaks and holidays and flu, we’ll be surging again.
Attorney Sidney Powell suggested recently that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was designed to give the U.S. Supreme Court time to stop Joe Biden from being certified as president of the United States.
Powell made the remarks on Friday’s episode of The Stew Peters Show. The comments were shared on Twitter by Ron Filipkowski.
According to Filipkowski, Powell’s interview “suggests that the purpose of the insurrection was to DELAY the electoral college certification to give [Justice Samuel Alito] time to intervene on this legal challenge. But, Powell says they didn’t anticipate Pelosi reconvening Congress that day.”
Powell said that while then-President Donald Trump was inciting a riot at the Capitol, her team was filing a “12th Amendment constitutional challenge to the process the Congress was about to use.”
“Justice Alito was our circuit justice for that,” she recalled. “And we were suing the vice president to follow the 12th Amendment as opposed to the Electoral College Act.”
Powell alleged that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned of the lawsuit and rushed to have Congress certify the election despite the ongoing attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“Everything broke loose and she really had to speed up reconvening Congress to get the vote going before Justice Alito might have issued an injunction to stop it all, which is what should have happened,” the attorney said.
So much discussion about the overall cost of Biden’s agenda and not what’s actually in it or that it is paid for. The simple compromise seems to be just sunset some of the programs so that you get the cost down without eliminating them. And if they’re popular enough to deserve extension later on they will be.
Better than what?
Been cleaning out an old desk finally got to the bottom of the pile found a telephone bill from Ma Bell, 1996. It was 53 dollars, half was for long distance and I only made 3 calls.
Also, a floppy disk for my new computer with windows 95
And what I really miss an Independence telephone book from the eighties, complete with yellow, white and blue pages.
Jack
Happy bday patriot/philosopher Samuel Adams, b.1722. “It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.”
Here’s the original Hot Rod Lincoln before Commander Cody or George Thoroughgood got hold of it. BTW, always like CC’s version best. And there’s this one – Down to Stems and Seeds Again – a very favorite of mine back in the day.
“The proposed congressional map also increases the number of districts where Trump had a majority of voters over Biden in 2020 and protects Republican incumbents who might have been vulnerable by packing their districts with more Trump voters.“
Republicans will have to cheat to win. If you have to cheat, you shouldn’t hold office.
Craig, I hope someone else understands the truth about the funding of the infrastructure bill. Democrats should be hitting all media outlets, MSM and social, to make that known and shut down yet another Republican lie. They should also add that Republicans don’t want to create the jobs the bill would fund, not do they want safer roads and bridges and internet to strengthen businesses and schools.
an update from nancy
but meanwhile while we try to do better, john brings us up to date on how it’s going
https://youtu.be/tIHOSAI6lQE
Failure to pass reconciliation, infrastructure bills would be perilous for Democrats – The Washington Post
and if we don’t build back better, more things like this will happen
3 dead, over 50 injured in Amtrak train derailment – ABC News (go.com)
Republicans are the party of corporate greed and broken infrastructure.
Roll back the tRUMPsky tax cuts, and, make the top earners actually pay tax to help rebuild the physical infrastructure in which they rely for their businesses to operate.
I agree with Gilda Cobb-Hunter – and I blame DINOs like Manchin and Sinema in the Senate and the far right and far left Reps in the House who are not engaging in compromise on the big pieces of legislation to get bills that will pass as reconciliation measures and further blame Manchin, Sinema and those chickenshit unnamed Senators who insist that retaining the filibuster is more important than protecting the right to vote and the democratic process that would allow the majority party to govern. News flash … the next time repugs a have 50 votes in the Senate and a repug president the filibuster will be gone.
Exactly. No more of the “when they go low, we go high” stuff. “When” is always with Republicans. Just get in the mud and end them.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/24/beto-orourke-2022/
“McConaughey, an Oscar-winning actor and Texas native, has said he is considering running for governor, though he has not said whether he’d run as a Republican or Democrat or done much else to elaborate on how he would position himself politically. Despite that, a poll released over the weekend found McConaughey leading Abbott by 9 percentage points. “
If I had ta guess, it would be that Matty is a Republican.
“The fight in front of us right now is the one that we’re talking about today in Texas right now, given what’s going on,” O’Rourke said. “Given the deep damage and chaos and incompetence that is connected to Greg Abbott — from the winter freeze, the abortion ban, the permitless carry, the anti-mask mandate, the terrible toll that COVID has taken on this state and where it has decimated populations along the border, like in my hometown of El Paso — this is what we need to be focused on right now.”
BETO has been working voter registration drives across the state, so folks know who he is and that he’s a true, blue Democrat.
Some rare good news re Covid from WaPo.
In the past week in the U.S. …
New daily reported cases fell 19.9%
New daily reported deaths fell 0.8%
Covid-related hospitalizations fell 8.8%
Among reported tests, the positivity rate was 7.3%.
The number of tests reported fell 40.6%from the previous week
The numbers are too high but the direction is right.
pogo, let’s hope that good news doesn’t put a damper on the quest to get everyone vaccinated. no time to let down guard on that ’cause sure as hell come the fall breaks and holidays and flu, we’ll be surging again.
sounds like sidney is fishing to get subpoened as a witness at the jan 6 committee hearings
Powell: Insurrection Was Planned To Help SCOTUS Overturn Biden’s Win | Crooks and Liars
RIP……Commander Cody
So much discussion about the overall cost of Biden’s agenda and not what’s actually in it or that it is paid for. The simple compromise seems to be just sunset some of the programs so that you get the cost down without eliminating them. And if they’re popular enough to deserve extension later on they will be.
Better than what?
Been cleaning out an old desk finally got to the bottom of the pile found a telephone bill from Ma Bell, 1996. It was 53 dollars, half was for long distance and I only made 3 calls.
Also, a floppy disk for my new computer with windows 95
And what I really miss an Independence telephone book from the eighties, complete with yellow, white and blue pages.
Jack
Happy bday patriot/philosopher Samuel Adams, b.1722. “It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.”
BiD and all you other snl ophiles, alec baldwin out and james austin johnson in as you know who.
here’s an article about snl’s new former guy The Best Trump Impersonator of All Would Never Prewrite a Trump Joke | Vanity Fair
and here’s about the announcement ‘SNL’ adds comedian called ‘best Trump impersonator of all’ | TheHill
speaking of samuel adams and SNL, here’s the commercial the crew made last year around this same punkin’ time
Roger that, pat. No question it is only a smidgen of good news, but right now I’ll take any good news.
SNL’s makeup artists are going to be challenged to make Johnson look at all like T_ _ _p, but man does he have the voice down or what?
Here’s the original Hot Rod Lincoln before Commander Cody or George Thoroughgood got hold of it. BTW, always like CC’s version best. And there’s this one – Down to Stems and Seeds Again – a very favorite of mine back in the day.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/24/texas-congressional-redistricting/
“The proposed congressional map also increases the number of districts where Trump had a majority of voters over Biden in 2020 and protects Republican incumbents who might have been vulnerable by packing their districts with more Trump voters.“
Republicans will have to cheat to win. If you have to cheat, you shouldn’t hold office.
Craig, I hope someone else understands the truth about the funding of the infrastructure bill. Democrats should be hitting all media outlets, MSM and social, to make that known and shut down yet another Republican lie. They should also add that Republicans don’t want to create the jobs the bill would fund, not do they want safer roads and bridges and internet to strengthen businesses and schools.
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