Meh, could just be a statement on the senators in their state. Which is the situation I am in. I'm not going to be wasting any time calling Cruz or Cornyn. Good initiative, though, if it makes sense in your area.
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The media is completely failing us. Even NPR today saying things like "if voting rights legislation isn't bipartisan does it really mean anything other than it's a partisan overreach" or something broadly to that effect
Wtf. What do you think the reason is NPR lady that not a single GOP senator supports protecting voting rights?
Wtf. What do you think the reason is NPR lady that not a single GOP senator supports protecting voting rights?
Yes, I'm sure he was impractical and made proposals that would harm people, even though they put forth (relatively speaking) their "largest proposal" yet.
Can't claim good faith, either, when your leader publicly says he doesn't want them voting for anything.
It's funny too wapos slogan is "democracy dies in darkness" and NPR constantly shilling "independent journalism" to get subs despite playing ads for giant corporate sponsors all the time.
People like to talk about bubbles online at places like Era. But plenty of traditional media sources have consistently had their heads up their butts for decades really.
Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Negotiations with Congress | The White House
The President has spoken to a number of members of the House and Senate the past two days. He informed Senator Capito today that the latest offer from her group did not, in his view, meet the essential needs of our country to restore our roads and bridges, prepare us for our clean energy future,…
Yeah I wish that the guests they had on their shows sometimes with this "both sides" nonsense would throw the book at the "journalists" framing shit like this too.
But civility and it's an honor to be on the show blah blah blah
They had on someone who met with Manchin today and if the host asked me that I'd be all over that bullshit. But if you come across as too confrontational you're seen by white moderates as "too out there, etc" and won't be invited back.
Rinse and repeat and then it's a bad look to literally call fascists for what they are.
We're already there.
Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Negotiations with Congress | The White House
The President has spoken to a number of members of the House and Senate the past two days. He informed Senator Capito today that the latest offer from her group did not, in his view, meet the essential needs of our country to restore our roads and bridges, prepare us for our clean energy future,…www.whitehouse.gov
So the reporting that they would wait until the fall to go forward with reconciliation was incorrect? Well, that was a lot of outrage here wasted if that's true.
Well you could leave a message telling them they're doing a good job!
The fall timeline was in reference to the John Lewis VRA, not infrastructure...unless there was a reported fall timeline for infrastructure that I missed!
Democrats fell right into the trap most of us in here warned about months ago:
Take the bait on bipartisanship, negotiate in good faith, have republicans make ridiculous demands, republicans stab democrats in the back and claim democrats ended the bipartisanship plans, placing all public blame on democrats.
Every. Single. Time.
Take the bait on bipartisanship, negotiate in good faith, have republicans make ridiculous demands, republicans stab democrats in the back and claim democrats ended the bipartisanship plans, placing all public blame on democrats.
Every. Single. Time.
Missouri finally has a prescription medication database
I don't know how there aren't more tankies in missourii tbqh
I don't know how there aren't more tankies in missourii tbqh
He released a statement yesterday:
Statement by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on Puerto Rico | The White House
Today, the Department of Justice will file a brief in the Supreme Court in the case United States v. Vaello-Madero, which addresses whether a provision in the Social Security Act that declines to provide Puerto Rico residents with Supplemental Security Income (SSI) violates the Constitution’s...
Democrats are losers.
Republicans are winners.
Democrats have incredible legislative goals.
Republicans want to tear everything down.
It's crazy that people in, like, half the states (or more!) will vote for the tear it down option every time.
Republicans are winners.
Democrats have incredible legislative goals.
Republicans want to tear everything down.
It's crazy that people in, like, half the states (or more!) will vote for the tear it down option every time.
This was always the plan to get Manchin convinced to go through reconciliation. Regardless of who republicans blame, hopefully the centrists will see the Republican scapegoating and know to act alone.
I'm pretty sure that hold-out senator(s) who insist bipartisan efforts are made before even considering going along with a party-line vote have nothing to do with this. Again, Dems don't have the numbers to steamroll bills through congress despite the fact most of them have ample experience with the good faith Republicans participate in these negotiations. Traps have nothing to do with this.
They publicized it. Biden pushed bipartisanship hard. Whether it had a chance or not, it was deliberate.
Senate confirmed another judicial nominee:
Senate Democrats start confirming Biden's judges to 'restore the balance' in courts
The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm what Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the "first of many" judicial nominations.www.nbcnews.com
NYT coverage:
Senate Confirms First Biden Judges, Beginning Push to Rebalance Courts (Published 2021)
The votes were the start of an effort by Democrats to confirm liberals and people of color to the federal courts after Donald J. Trump moved aggressively to install conservative white men.
WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed President Biden's first two judicial nominees on Tuesday with modest Republican support, quietly touching off a liberal sprint to fill scores of federal vacancies, aimed at rebalancing the ideological makeup of the courts and injecting new diversity after the Trump era.
In a lopsided 66-to-33 vote, the chamber approved Julien Xavier Neals to serve as a district court judge in New Jersey, where a spate of vacancies has contributed to a significant backlog of cases.
A few hours later, senators voted 72 to 28 to confirm Regina Rodriguez as the first Asian American judge to serve on the Federal District Court bench in Colorado.
"This is the first, certainly not the last — not even close," Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, boasted between the votes. "We're going to be able to restore a lot of balance to the courts because there are a lot of vacancies we are going to fill."
Democrats plan to move as soon as this week to confirm Mr. Biden's first appeals court pick, Ketanji Brown Jackson, to serve on the powerful District of Columbia Circuit. They have roughly a dozen other nominees already winding their way through the approval process, with more than 100 vacancies expected to be open on the federal bench in the coming months.
But Democrats are starting from a deep hole. When they controlled the Senate, Republicans led by Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky used their majority to help President Donald J. Trump confirm more than 220 federal judges over four years, including more than 50 to influential appeals court posts and three Supreme Court justices. Together, they are already putting a deep conservative stamp on the law.
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To push back, Democrats are borrowing liberally from Mr. McConnell's playbook during the Trump years, when he focused intensively on confirming conservatives to lifetime terms on the federal courts. The White House moved swiftly to begin naming nominees for many of the most important posts this spring, far earlier than the historic norm, and Mr. Biden's liberal allies on Capitol Hill have made their approval a top priority of an evenly split Senate.
Both nominees confirmed on Tuesday also underscored the significance of the shifting power. Mr. Neals and Ms. Rodriguez were first nominated by President Barack Obama near the end of his second term, but their nominations were among the dozens blocked by Mr. McConnell when he was the majority leader as part of his successful effort to hold open crucial vacancies in case a Republican won the presidency in 2016.
More in the link.
At least we're able to salvage the judiciary a bit.
This was all about Manchin and, to a lesser extent, Sinema. McConnell was never going to negotiate in good faith, and he said as much months ago.
As many have said in here: they were NEVER going to get 10 GOP votes. It just won't happen.
Yep. You could see the fucking glee on McConnell's face in that press conference where he said Biden ended bipartisan talks. He couldn't contain it.
The plan was never for Manchin to pass a bill through reconciliation. He was supposed to already be on board for that if it eventually went to that. This was supposed to convince him to end the filibuster and start passing other popular Democratic legislation.
Nothing has been passed that has been crippled by bi-partisanship though? Anyone who has been paying any modicum of attention knows that most legislation is DOA because of the filibuster, McConnell's desire to not allow anything that would benefit Democrats to move forward, and/or Manchin/Sinema's resistance to killing the filibuster. We can negotiate or not, it doesn't really matter at this point because most everything is doomed to fail regardless sans the stuff that can be pushed through via reconciliation (which apparently has to have some degree of compromise because of the demands of President Manchin).
Regardless, I tend to believe the the majority of Americans at this point know why things aren't moving forward, and that is by a Republican party that doesn't believe in actually governing, regardless of whom Capito points a finger at. It is probably better that Dems show a willingness to talk and negotiate even if there is a snowball's chance in hell of what we want to pass becoming law over these next two years.
5 years ago, I might have agreed with you. After the Trump era, I think more people are plugged in to what is going on in DC than ever.
I still believe the vast majority of voters to be low-information voters.
These are the people that remember the commercials about student debt reform, public option health care, and voting rights.
These are also the people that realize these things talked about in the commercials aren't getting fixed.
History has shown they don't seek out why. Maybe you're right and this group of voters has finally broken the cycle of "blame the group in power" that has happened for decades. I don't believe we are there yet.
The Senate just passed the Innovation and Competition Act:
Background:
www.npr.org
Background:
Senate Is Poised To Approve A Major Science Funding Bill To Compete With China
The Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 would allocate billions to scientific research and has strong bipartisan support. It could be a game changer for some U.S. cities.
www.npr.org
The Senate just passed the Innovation and Competition Act:
Background:
Senate Is Poised To Approve A Major Science Funding Bill To Compete With China
The Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 would allocate billions to scientific research and has strong bipartisan support. It could be a game changer for some U.S. cities.
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Sanders voted no.
NYT coverage:
Senate Confirms First Biden Judges, Beginning Push to Rebalance Courts (Published 2021)
The votes were the start of an effort by Democrats to confirm liberals and people of color to the federal courts after Donald J. Trump moved aggressively to install conservative white men.www.nytimes.com
WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed President Biden's first two judicial nominees on Tuesday with modest Republican support, quietly touching off a liberal sprint to fill scores of federal vacancies, aimed at rebalancing the ideological makeup of the courts and injecting new diversity after the Trump era.In a lopsided 66-to-33 vote, the chamber approved Julien Xavier Neals to serve as a district court judge in New Jersey, where a spate of vacancies has contributed to a significant backlog of cases.A few hours later, senators voted 72 to 28 to confirm Regina Rodriguez as the first Asian American judge to serve on the Federal District Court bench in Colorado."This is the first, certainly not the last — not even close," Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, boasted between the votes. "We're going to be able to restore a lot of balance to the courts because there are a lot of vacancies we are going to fill."Democrats plan to move as soon as this week to confirm Mr. Biden's first appeals court pick, Ketanji Brown Jackson, to serve on the powerful District of Columbia Circuit. They have roughly a dozen other nominees already winding their way through the approval process, with more than 100 vacancies expected to be open on the federal bench in the coming months.But Democrats are starting from a deep hole. When they controlled the Senate, Republicans led by Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky used their majority to help President Donald J. Trump confirm more than 220 federal judges over four years, including more than 50 to influential appeals court posts and three Supreme Court justices. Together, they are already putting a deep conservative stamp on the law. --------------------------To push back, Democrats are borrowing liberally from Mr. McConnell's playbook during the Trump years, when he focused intensively on confirming conservatives to lifetime terms on the federal courts. The White House moved swiftly to begin naming nominees for many of the most important posts this spring, far earlier than the historic norm, and Mr. Biden's liberal allies on Capitol Hill have made their approval a top priority of an evenly split Senate.Both nominees confirmed on Tuesday also underscored the significance of the shifting power. Mr. Neals and Ms. Rodriguez were first nominated by President Barack Obama near the end of his second term, but their nominations were among the dozens blocked by Mr. McConnell when he was the majority leader as part of his successful effort to hold open crucial vacancies in case a Republican won the presidency in 2016.
More in the link.
At least we're able to salvage the judiciary a bit.
I needed some good news today.
Right. I agree. But then saying things like "the Democrats fell for their trap", "the Democrats fucked up again", etc. isn't just unhelpful, it's not true! The vast majority of the Democratic Party, the president included, went into these bipartisan talks knowing that the main goal was more to push Manchin and Sinema toward reconciliation than it was about pushing 10 Republicans to join us.
Along with that, Sanders had issues with wealthy semiconductor companies like Intel and TI getting a ~$50 billion boost.
Well, good luck with getting literally any media to go along with that narrative.
Iim genuinely confused. I thought we all knew that the whole point of the infrastructure negotiation was to demonstrate how unreasonable Republicans were being. They did that and then once the goal was accomplished they decoded to move on. Republicans were always going to say that Biden was being partisan and unreasonable. Why are some of you buying into their nonsense opposite world framing? Nobody else is.
And that's the main problem. The framing by the media here is going to be clearly putting democrats in a bad light. That's the trap.
Exactly the point I was trying to make. I literally expected all of this to unfold in the way that it ended up happening.
No it's not? This was the intended outcome, and the audience that it's intended for seems to have taken it in the spirit in which it was intended, to wit: Republicans refused to advance a serious counter offer so we're moving on.
Y'all are too quick to chicken little lately. Chill. The Republican counter offer was not well received anywhere.
Besides, folks were complaining about taking as much time negotiating as we did! There are multiple constituencies to balance here.
Wouldn't it have been smarter for them to not vote for a bill that has all of their concessions? Because Biden ending the talks gives them all of the cover they need.
Only if they ever actually agree to anything in negotiations. If they just drag it out indefinitely you never get there and waste a ton of time and effort. This outcome will do the job fine.
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