The Eaglet has Landed

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Now it’s up to Momma Nancy to see it safely soar out the nest.

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House sets up Friday votes for Biden agenda | TheHill
House Democrats are now planning to vote Friday on their long-sought social spending package as well as the bipartisan infrastructure bill as they rush to deliver on President Biden’s agenda after disappointing state election results earlier this week.
The House Rules Committee met late Thursday night to advance the final text of the social spending legislation.
Next, according to Democratic sources familiar with the plan, the House will convene at 8 a.m. Friday to debate and vote on the package, titled the Build Back Better Act. A vote to clear the bipartisan infrastructure bill — which has stalled in the House since its Senate passage in August due to progressive resistance — will follow.

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  1.  it’s infrastructure weekend AGAIN, but not before the baby build back better bill gets passed today — or so they say.  will we ever see them finally fly?

    Image result for two eagles flying together

  3. After several bruising losses in this week’s elections, Democrats in the House have regrouped and are putting paid family leave back on their legislative agenda. In Iowa, scientists found that a majority of white tail deer are infected with the coronavirus, raising concerns that the species may act as a virus reservoir and eventually transmit it back to the human population.

  4. Any Republican (and Manchin/Sienna) who takes credit fir anything that passes should be castigated by pointing out how much their obstruction diluted the help folks end up getting in the form of jobs, healthcare, etc., and, how they protected their corporate cronies.

  5. I am not encouraged about the votes today. I’m afraid that by adding paid family leave back into the social spending bill it will be doomed to fail and may jeopardize the infrastructure bill. I hope I’m wrong but fear I’m not. 

  6. Justice Department files lawsuit against Texas’s new voting restrictions – The Washington Post

    The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit over Texas’s new voting restrictions, alleging they disenfranchise eligible voters — including older Americans and people with disabilities — and that they violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
    The lawsuit was filed against the state of Texas and the Texas secretary of state over Senate Bill 1, which Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed into law in September. The bill imposed new criminal penalties for violating voting laws, banned 24-hour and drive-through voting and allowed more access for partisan poll watchers.

    “Our democracy depends on the right of eligible voters to cast a ballot and to have that ballot counted,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement Thursday. “The Justice Department will continue to use all the authorities at its disposal to protect this fundamental pillar of our society.”
    […]
    Justice Department’s complaint alleges that provisions of Senate Bill 1 will harm eligible Texas residents seeking to exercise their right to vote, including those with limited English proficiency, voters with disabilities, older voters, members of the military deployed away from home and American citizens residing abroad.
    The complaint also argued that, even before Senate Bill 1, Texas had already imposed some of the strictest limitations in the country on granting voting assistance to certain citizens and on mail-in voting, even during the coronavirus pandemic.
    [continues]

  7. They could certainly add a short, paid, family leave to the bill. It doesn’t have to be twelve weeks, and, they could cap it at once per year. For the sake of women giving birth, at the very least, give them a month at home beyond doctor’s clearance to go back to work. Give the dad’s a chance to bond and stay home the following month. I know there are other circumstances, like elder parent care, but our society isn’t structured in a normal, human manner. Families and generations within those families are spread all over, so there’s no way to help out in any meaningful, long term way.

  8. I know I am late to the party, I have had the “news” off for a while.  So, what will the Dem leadership do now?  The Senate has gone on vacation for a while, continuing a long string of vacation, and the House is scrambling to make eggs out of horse apples.  For whatever else the view is supposed to be, the Congress has shown nothing.  The former senate majority leader did nothing good, but he did make a lot of noise.  For America, the Congress is like a feather pillow, very soft and silent.  The “media” is doing a great job of attacking President Biden and making him look as inept as President Ford. 
     
    Here, deep in sfb country, the cult are very excited.  They took back, their words, Virginia and are looking to make Texas look like a test case of hell and they are going to be the real hate state.  It will not work, there are too many people who will not put up with it, but there are a lot of cult mongers who will dominate the “news”.

  9. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/05/texas-poll-greg-abbott-beto-orourke/

    “The survey of registered voters found Abbott with a 9-percentage-point advantage over O’Rourke, 46% to 37%. Seven percent of respondents picked someone else in the hypothetical matchup, and 10% said they have not thought about it enough to have an opinion.”

    “While O’Rourke is widely liked by Democrats and widely disliked by Republicans, his low favorability with independents is hurting his overall showing: Only 22% of them have a positive view of him, while 48% have a negative view.“

    Why? Why the negative view of Beto among indies? Unless it’s spillover from POTUS Joe, I don’t know why indies would have a negative view of Beto.

    “The poll also found that potential candidate Matthew McConaughey is not universally beloved by Texans. About a quarter of respondents had an unfavorable opinion of the movie star who has flirted with running for governor.“

    I know I’d like to move to a blue state.

  13. ‘course when it lands at the senate, vid cam may catch glimpses of snakes like mitch or manchin and other predators slithering in to try to kill or severely wound it before it can fly on to uncle joe’s signing desk 

  17. Seems like the plan is to pass the social spending bill with whatever they have the votes for, send it to the Senate, let them amend it and return to House, which will pass whatever they send back

    Then pass the Senate infrastructure bill, which is ready to send to Biden

  22. UF needs to reverse ban on professors testifying – Orlando Sentinel

    A choice for the University of Florida: Academic freedom or government stooge | Editorial

    Rest in peace, academic freedom, because the University of Florida has decided faculty members may speak their minds only when it’s in the best interests of the Gators and the governor.
    In effect, that means no university-sanctioned criticism of state government, its laws or the GOP leaders who make them.
    In a stunning revelation Friday, The New York Times reported that UF was prohibiting three professors from working with plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit challenging Florida’s new voting restrictions.
    The decision may be unprecedented, and it represents an about-face for a university that in 2018 cleared a professor to work on previous election lawsuits. One of those, ironically, was a lawsuit that challenged the state’s unconstitutional ban on early voting sites at state university campuses.
    Between this latest decision and revelations that UF greased the hiring of Dr. Joseph Ladapo because he was about to get appointed as surgeon general, the University of Florida is looking more like a political toady than an independent academic institution.
    […]
    The University of Florida’s reputation as an institution that values truth is going to sustain lasting damage if it doesn’t reverse this disastrous decision to silence its professors because of politics.

  23. Lucy snatches the ball away again

    Jayapal sinks latest Pelosi plan on votes | TheHill

    The head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus quickly shut down Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s (D-Calif.) plan to vote Friday on an infrastructure bill without also passing the larger social benefits package that President Biden has sought for months.

    Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) said liberals are holding form to their insistence that both bills move together — a strategy they believe gives them the greatest leverage in negotiations with centrist Democrats in the Senate.

    “As we’ve consistently said, there are dozens of our members who want to vote both bills — the Build Back Better Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act — out of the House together.”

    DEVELOPING…

  24. FU, ron, with love from UF

    University of Florida to allow professors to testify in voting rights case after backlash | TheHill

    The University of Florida (UF) said Friday that it will allow professors to testify in a voting rights lawsuit against the state, reversing its position following a wave of public backlash.
    […]
    Earlier on Friday, the union representing UF employees encouraged donors to stop sending money to the university, according to local NPR affiliate WUFT.
    Dozens of donors took to social media over the past week, pledging to stop donating to the school until the it changed its decision, the outlet reported. 
    [continues]

  34. This attack on our schools , and the people who run them is going to get really crazy , when teaching little kids to read and write  becomes a “Commie Plot”. 

  37. yeah….that tide I saw this morning was good and high…..I love high tides, the higher the better.   I’m good and close to the tides around here, always have been; they’re right outside the door and most everywhere I go.    The prince of tides got nothing on me.

    But by the time they reach the dangerous stage I’ll be a little old jewish comedian in the catskills.

  39. To me, the tides are just like they always have been.  I don’t notice any overall changes.  Whenever there is like a king-hell high tide we sit around and talk about it like we always have.

  41. Blink –
    The Greenland ice cap is not a block of ice any more. It’s more like an ant farm of ice .  Like our thinking about whales , we just got it wrong. They eat 3 rimes more krill than we thought, and that whale crap is far more important than we ever dreamed. 
     
    There is a lot more water flowing into our oceans than we think.

  42. I’ll try to observe this weekend and see if there’s any loss of real estate…I gotta cross all the main points and it’s right outside and it’s high mid-morning to mid-day…..so i’ll try and relate if this tide is any remarkable amount higher.   Every time there’s a high tide, I see it and think, “Damn, that tide is high.”   lol   Very seldom the tide gets onto the road…..i think it was early this year that it got so high as to get onto the road, but I have seen it do that before, and downtown certain streets flood regularly…..

  44. Blink –
    Gravity  is at work as well ,  the mass of Antarctica, and Greenland draws the water up around them . As they melt, and lose mass,   that water flows other places . 
     
    That effect is just getting under way.

  45. CNN:

  46. Johns Island is an island in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States, and is the largest island in the state of South Carolina. Johns Island is bordered by the Wadmalaw, Seabrook, Kiawah, Edisto, Folly, and James islands; the Stono and Kiawah rivers separate Johns Island from its border islands. Wikipedia
     

  49. Eagle, fish hawk … first cousins I’d say. 

    Aaron Rodgers is the NFL’s moron of the day. He’s taking everything that has been proven totally ineffective and feels “incredible”.  Stupid shit.

  50. I hope all these progressives understand what they have done. 
    I saw Carville  on Wednesday , on PBS  hopping mad. 
    He said what I see .  They all see themselves as policy wonks . And not salesmen .  You got to sell  your idea. 
    This is fucking America , you got to be Rudy in “Used Cars”.
     

     

  53. i think expanded access to associate’s and bachelor’s degrees is a winning idea, just don’t call it “free community college” 

  54. Sturg, Charleston is at risk during King tides. I’ve been there twice – once after an unremarkable storm during a king tide. Lotta water around. 

  56. here since there’s a dearth of conservative voices, here, i’ll provide their perspective on any given topic:
     
    ”I me I me I me I me I I I me me me I I I I I me me me me”

  59. Blink –
    You nailed the it !
    They preach  about Love of country , but it’s all about me. 
    What I want , what I need , what I think.
    We landed on the Moon , not me. 

  61. That “Bears Ears”  post  –
    The Mormons  whine  they are losing power.  Because change  is here.  They whine about their  roots. 
    Well the Utes, Hopi, Zuni, and Navajo  have banded together. 
    And this is a big deal , no one likes  the Navajo.  They are Johnny come lately’s , they showed up 400 years ago. 
    As land fights go , this one is  a bear. 
     
    The fate of the West is at stake, all the while the drought   it’s  killing everyone’s future. 

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