Not a single one of the "2 moderate-to-conservative Senators and 9ish moderate-to-conservative House members" would have hesitated (in fact the latter group practically begged) to vote promptly on the "bipartisan infrastructure bill", delivering to Biden a most desperately needed win - the delay of which has now cost him and his party de…
Not a single one of the "2 moderate-to-conservative Senators and 9ish moderate-to-conservative House members" would have hesitated (in fact the latter group practically begged) to vote promptly on the "bipartisan infrastructure bill", delivering to Biden a most desperately needed win - the delay of which has now cost him and his party dearly.
They (the 2+9) would have loved to get that vital piece of business done without utterly unnecessary and damaging delay. They would have then been glad to take up sober negotiations on the "BBB" package, with a needed sense of calm and rational discourse - which is to say, absent threats from the Progressives (whom Mona rightly chastises) to "kill the puppy" (in this particular case, taking hostage the infrastructure bill already passed by the Senate, a tactic aimed at forcing the hands of the "2 moderate-to-conservative Senators and 9ish moderate-to-conservative House members", who, it turned out, did not particularly care for being bullied like that).
So yes: it is "someone else's fault" that the strong-arm tactics employed by the Progressive wing (some of whom ended up voting against the infrastructure bill despite obviously supporting it - a surly gesture befitting today's GOP) turned into one of the major factors in the shared misfortunes of Terry McAuliffe, Joe Biden and all who wish to keep the barking mad Republicans as far as possible from the levers of power.
Not a single one of the "2 moderate-to-conservative Senators and 9ish moderate-to-conservative House members" would have hesitated (in fact the latter group practically begged) to vote promptly on the "bipartisan infrastructure bill", delivering to Biden a most desperately needed win - the delay of which has now cost him and his party dearly.
They (the 2+9) would have loved to get that vital piece of business done without utterly unnecessary and damaging delay. They would have then been glad to take up sober negotiations on the "BBB" package, with a needed sense of calm and rational discourse - which is to say, absent threats from the Progressives (whom Mona rightly chastises) to "kill the puppy" (in this particular case, taking hostage the infrastructure bill already passed by the Senate, a tactic aimed at forcing the hands of the "2 moderate-to-conservative Senators and 9ish moderate-to-conservative House members", who, it turned out, did not particularly care for being bullied like that).
So yes: it is "someone else's fault" that the strong-arm tactics employed by the Progressive wing (some of whom ended up voting against the infrastructure bill despite obviously supporting it - a surly gesture befitting today's GOP) turned into one of the major factors in the shared misfortunes of Terry McAuliffe, Joe Biden and all who wish to keep the barking mad Republicans as far as possible from the levers of power.