Time For Biden Hardball

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No infrastructure spending in red states. He knows how to play this game.

Portman and Mitch about to lose their precious bridge rebuilding from Cincinnati to Northern KY. That decaying bridge only access for Ohioans to Cincinnati Airport which is actually in Kentucky. Also only access for Kentuckians to Cincinnati’s riverfront stadiums.

LBJ would literally tell Mitch you want this bridge rebuilt and named after you, lick my balls now. That’s how Johnson got civil rights passed.

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47 thoughts on “Time For Biden Hardball”

  1. WWJD discussed back in 2009 still applicable in 2021

    On “Face The Nation” Bob Schieffer offers insight into how President Lyndon Johnson would have approached President Obama’s battle for health care reform.

  2. WWTD – what would the former guy do (and still might be doing) with congress critters? here’s his modus operandi 

    excerpt from

    Trump Reportedly Tried to Bribe Arlen Specter to Stop Patriots Investigation (mediaite.com)

    Specter wasn’t satisfied with the league’s brief investigation, and decided to launch a Spygate probe of his own. According to ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham, it wasn’t long before Spector received an interesting offer to leave the Patriots alone.
    One day in early 2008, Specter had dinner with the man in Palm Beach at his palatial club, not far from (Patriots owner Robert) Kraft’s Florida home. A phone call followed. The friend offered Specter what the senator felt was tantamount to a bribe: “If you laid off the Patriots, there’d be a lot of money in Palm Beach.”
    ESPN states the man was Donald Trump, who was reportedly acting on behalf of Patriots owner Robert Kraft. The information came to ESPN from Specter’s son, Shanin Specter.

  4. Republicans who publicly drag their feet on a jobs plan…  Hmmm… Can’t wait for the midterm ads.

  5. If Trump had thought of putting his name on every project we’d have plenty of infrastructure by now

    …it would also all be failing and owned by DeutscheBank 

  7. Every member of the Senate who votes against the 1/6 investigation should be named, shamed and exposed in commercials nationwide as examples of traitorous cowardice.

  8. Yes, Poobah, time for hardball indeed.  And by the way I think its’s time for him to have coffee and donuts with Manchin and Sinema, and he might invite Chuck for good measure.

  10. pogo, i heard the joes are in touch by phone often,if not almost daily; but nothing beats real life flesh to flesh, eyeball to eyeball visits where you can shake on a deal to cement it. 

  11. Manchin too busy reeling from the revelation that Republicans refuse to work in good-faith, he’s the only guy who didn’t know

  12. a country song’s chorus

    Shake on it, just put it there
    That’s the way it’s always been ’round here
    You could trust a man when he held out his hand
    And said ‘Let’s shake on it
    They were battered and bruised
    When Pat and Billy picked themselfes up
    They looked each other over
    And two grins appeared from beneath the sweat and dust
    Billy picked up his hat
    And clipped his old mate on the ear
    And said we’ll call it a draw Pat
    But I reckon you owe me a beer

  14. bradley makes sense on colbert show last night

    the hill:

    Actor Bradley Whitford is likening Democrats attempting to work across the aisle with Republican lawmakers to “negotiating with terrorists.”
    “They want bipartisanship? They stole two Supreme Court seats,” Whitford, who starred as fictional White House deputy chief of staff Josh Lyman on “The West Wing,” said of the GOP in a Thursday appearance on CBS’s “The Late Show.”
    “I mean, negotiating with a party that worships an insurrectionist feels really close to me to negotiating with terrorists,” the “Handmaid’s Tale” actor told host Stephen Colbert. “If they’re going to use the filibuster to keep us from protecting Capitol Police officers, I don’t know where the common ground is to be had.”
    […]
    Slamming Republicans and former President Trump, Whitford said, “Joe’s doing civics and they’re doing professional wrestling.”
    “It’s such a relief to have a president who wants to help people and not need smoke blown up his ass. That’s fantastic,” Whitford, 61, said.

  16. Bink, Manchin finds himself between the devil and the deep blue sea politically. You’re right that he is naive to thing that today’s GQP is rational and will deal to obtain benefits for their states and constituents as rational legislators have done for most of the republic’s existence.But he’s looking at being a Dem representing a deep red state and seeing his support eroding from election to election he’s having to do a bit of image management to try and avoid having to switch to the GQP in 2024 when he’s up for re-election, and hear his father roll over in his grave..  In a certain sense I think his stint as Governor suited him much better than his time as a Senator.  So he has to choose between doing the right thing  (and he knows that the filibuster is not worth preserving to protect his party’s minority rights) – rather IMHO it’s part of trying to keep a few “moderate” WV voters in his camp as part of that image management thing.  Joe’s facing a bleak future with a stark choice he’s never had to deal with in WV before.  I just hope he’ll wake the fuck up and do what it takes to advance Biden’s agenda, which I firmly believes he supports wholeheartedly even if it means being forced to 1. do away with the filibuster and 2. become a Repug in 2024 if he wants another term.

  19. Well it looks like we’re gonna be seeing select committees instead of a bipartisan  commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection.

  20. Republicans don’t need a commission to investigate the Jan 6 insurrection, they already know they were behind it

  22. Here’s the word “should” again….I hate that word nowadays
    man-chin should do the right thing and resign himself to losing if that’s what happens. No two ways. Step up joe MANCHIN, it’s TIME

  23. well, the 1973-74 select watergate investigation group did their job okay and it was only a special select  committee established by the senate.   so why wouldn’t nancy’s be just as good especially since they already have most of the tapes this time.

  25. …it’s like asking Saudi Arabia to appoint an independent commission to find out what happened on 9-11

  26. Manchin is 73.  For crap’s sake.  These folks trying to straddle the fence  aren’t going to live and hold office forever.  Do the right thing. 

  29. The other alternative that comes to mind since the GQP senators won’t vote for a bipartisan commission is the appointment of a presidential commission, chaired by a couple folks Joe thinks are straight shooters, likely retired senators, presidents, judges or the like, and throw the weight of the FBI behind it for the investigative work.  Hell, they and DOJ have already brought what, 450 or so arrests following the insurrection? Not like they haven’t done anything to investigate it to date.

  30. This looks like a great on-line show

    Stonewall Inn Safe Spaces Concert 

    This all-star virtual event will raise funds for LGBTQA+ Safe Spaces and will stream exclusively on Logo’s YouTube and Facebook on June 1 at 8 p.m. Jägermeister, one of SIGBI’s corporate sponsors, has already pledged to match donations up to $25,000 as part of its #SaveTheNight global initiative.  

    Read more: https://www.digitaljournal.com/entertainment/stonewall-inn-safe-spaces-concert-featuring-melissa-mccarthy-chelsea-clinton-shea-diamond-emily-estefan-randy-rainbow-and-nancy-pelosi-to-kick-off-pride-month/article#ixzz6wBkhxyU5

  31. pogo, thinking along those same lines, a prez commission with republicans like justice o’connor, former def. sec cohen, senators danforth, hagel and democrats like jim webb, joe lieberman  etc.  might do the trick.  

    throw into that bunch the former DHS sec.s who today just announced their dismay – ridge, chertoff, napolitano and johnson

  34. I’ll have to pass on the Cicada recipes – while I’m certain they would be delicious, Brood X isn’t here and I ain’t driving East to collect insects to cook.
     
    Then again, after reading the article BB posted, sounds like “What’s the point” would be appropriate.  If I want ICK!! food, I’ll stick with my beloved oysters.

  36. Yeah, it’s all fun and stuff but I reckon I got enough to eat without eatin’ bugs.   I’m not very adventurous when it comes to food.   Besides, I’ve yet to see the first cicader.

  38. Pogo
    Nice post above regarding Manchin. Didn’t he live through the Obama years?? At 73 where is he going from here? Becoming a Republican may be his best choice.


  39. Flashback Friday! Loved this. Taking Bernie to task for his BS :0)

  43. But they don’t want it gone till they’ve rigged up the next election real good

  44. another thing mitch might want is for nancy to set up the investigation and dig up all the dirt on the maga cult so he’s not blamed.  no way does he want the former guy who lost the senate and the presidency around to mess with mitch’s opportunity to regain the senate throne.  he knows they’ll find all sorts of shenanigans that likely cause resignations of the culpable crazies and their political blood won’t be on his hands. 

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