A Right Wing Cannot Flap Alone, or, Donald Trump Screwed the Putsch

[Dark Jaguar]

They share the direct blame, but ABF, we TOLD YOU they weren't useful to actual issues some time ago.  There's also plenty of blame to go around.  The democratic party failed to do what the republican party would have done, which is GET THEM IN LINE and play hard ball.  The actual policy is far too important to tip toe around all polite and say things like "we're a big tent".  Make the tent smaller I guess.  Maybe the tent was too big.

The whole democratic party shares the blame.  Yes, the progressive wing too.  They fell for that deal to split the bill and then voted on the really sucky part, the part with those provisions Manchin actually wanted.  You know, the provisions we're ALL going to regret in a few years but very few people are talking about now.  The ones that let PRIVATE COMPANIES own major infrastructure like highways.  By allowing the bad part to get passed first, the progressives lost all their leverage.  Shame on them.  Shame on the rest of the party for not getting Manchin in line.  They should have made him a pariah the very instant he started going against their plans.  The only "negotiations" that should have happened was Biden getting him in a room and telling him in no uncertain terms that "If you don't vote on this thing, we're going to advertise how you betrayed us in your state for the next five years straight and we're going to mention the names of your big coal company connections in every one of those ads to give them a black eye too."  Then run the vote.  If it tanks.  Do it again.  Do it again after that.

Manchin for his part doesn't care.  His own state HATES that he did this.  His own VOTERS hate that he did this.  Lobbies he worked closely with hate him for this.  He's getting paid.

Speaking of, Pelosi sure answered that question about whether or not congress should be allowed to own stocks FAST.  "Freedom" she says.  Sure, the people in congress are free to trade in stocks, IF THEY LEAVE CONGRESS.  That should be the deal.  It's absolutely ridiculous that it's allowed to happen, and that is the exact reason that we get politicians that vote against their own constituent's desires.  It only makes sense if they no longer care about getting elected and instead care about financial gain.

Yes, I'm mad about this, but I saw it coming years ahead of time.

Now for my next prediction.  This is going to cost the democrats the mid terms.  They're afraid actually doing things will lose them power?  Let's see what NOT doing things does for them.  First they'll lose the mid terms, then Biden truly will be powerless to achieve anything, and then he loses his reelection because he failed to do anything, and then we get to hear morning shows complain that "no one gave him a chance".  Trump's running again in 2024 by the way.  If that man gets reelected, the democratic experiment in the US is over.  I don't want that.  Biden needs to take direct action to prevent it, but now they're shifting tracks to focus on another bill.  Voting rights are an absolute necessity as well, but if they cave on one, who's to say they won't cave on the next?

There's some genuine good things Biden did.  Most of that was on the very first week he was in office, but he didn't go quite far enough then, and he's definitely not going far enough now.  Where's that $10,000 student loan reduction?  Stroke of a pen, but I don't see any scratching.