Biden infrastructure/tax increase megathread

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In his State of the Union, Biden asked a rhetorical question "Can democracy still deliver?" and he answered this week by saying "Nope". Even his initial bill made piddling efforts on climate change. Any compromise that could pass would be trivial.

Looks like we will have to wait until some really brutal natural disaster before people wake up.

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While I should probably wait to see how all of this plays out over the coming year before reflecting, I think that Biden has stumped me. The past few months played into classic "Obungler" scripts, where a bumbling Democratic administration gets strung along chasing the "bipartisan" opiate, but, in reality, Biden was running circles around Republicans, intending to capitulate, agreeing to pass some pathetic "bipartisan" bill to appease narcissists like Manchin and low IQ Beltway schmucks. This should allow him to rally the support of 50 Senate votes in favor of a massive reconciliation bill, as Manchin got his photo op, and it will make Biden look "bipartisan", even as Democrats will ram through a New Deal/Great Society type reconciliation bill that is extremely partisan.

Joey B owns the cons once again!

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https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1408129053840785413?s=21

This is why Biden is the best president since LBJ.

He might not be signing any infrastructure bill at this rate, if Republicans back out of the deal and then Manchin/Sinema refuse to sign on to the reconciliation.

Neither Manchin nor Sinema would refuse to pass a large infrastructure and "families" bill if Republicans back out of this deal.

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Well, I guess that's that:

https://twitter.com/elwasson/status/1408478816079646722

What a fool. Either you want something done and actually legislate or not and you're just being an obstructionist/my way or the highway. Republicans just don't negotiate in good faith.

The GOP must have lost their minds if they think threatening Joe Manchin is a good strategy

them walking away from this deal would be smack in the face to Joe Manchin and it would also make a lot of Dems on the left very happy

it would all but guarantee that Dems go it alone on infrastructure and at that point not even Joe Manchin would be willing to stop it since the GOP would be betraying him by walking away from a bipartisan deal that he help negotiate......

Pelosi and Biden smacked Manchin in the face by announcing they weren't going to do the deal he worked on without the reconciliation bill first.

I'm pretty sure that Manchin couldn't care less. The point is that he has a trophy to show that he is bipartisan.

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Well, I guess that's that:

https://twitter.com/elwasson/status/1408478816079646722

What a fool. Either you want something done and actually legislate or not and you're just being an obstructionist/my way or the highway. Republicans just don't negotiate in good faith.

The GOP must have lost their minds if they think threatening Joe Manchin is a good strategy

them walking away from this deal would be smack in the face to Joe Manchin and it would also make a lot of Dems on the left very happy

it would all but guarantee that Dems go it alone on infrastructure and at that point not even Joe Manchin would be willing to stop it since the GOP would be betraying him by walking away from a bipartisan deal that he help negotiate......

Pelosi and Biden smacked Manchin in the face by announcing they weren't going to do the deal he worked on without the reconciliation bill first.

I'm pretty sure that Manchin couldn't care less. The point is that he has a trophy to show that he is bipartisan.

Like WV voters will care about that in 3 years.

No idea how this is relevant to my point!