And potentially faster > https://t.co/d6UuatZpvB
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) May 27, 2021
"I can’t imagine anyone voting against establishing a commission on the greatest assault since the Civil War on the Capitol," President Biden tells reporters. "But anyway..."
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) May 27, 2021
#TX24... https://t.co/n0ETnyMrCL
— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) May 27, 2021
This is the reward for perusing bipartisanship. Democrats could simply convene a select committee with subpoena power. Instead they negotiated in good faith with Republicans. They came to an agreement and now that agreement will be filibustered in the Senate. https://t.co/tEzmti1ku8
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 27, 2021
Let's see if Democrats in the Congress and the Biden administration make the right use of this demonstration of Republican obstruction, now. I strongly suspect that they will use it to pressure Manchin and that dim bulb from Arizona on the filibuster and, also, as an issue for the 2022 campaign. I know Obama would have felt above something like that but I think there are plenty of Democrats in leadership who are ready to weaponize it. I think Schumer is as impatient as Biden to get something done and if there is someone in DC who has demonstrated they are, it's Nancy Pelosi who has been bringing hundreds of bills through the House that have died in the goddamned Senate.
ReplyDeleteI hope that the fear I'm feeling is a hold-over from the Obama-Reid years (both of them) but that the ones there now will not be suckered into fulfilling.
Three mythologies in D.C. I can do without: 1) Harry Reid used to box, so he’s a “fighter.” 2) McConnell is a Senate rules “genius”; and 3) if it ain’t bi-partisan, it ain’t shit.
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