Who Would Win, Nancy Pelosi Or An Army Of Tiny Mike Ditkas?

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.wonkette.com/must-be-time-for-another-dems-in-disarray-story

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is having a really fun week. She had a pretty simple goal: Bring the House back into session, pass the budget resolution that would start the process of moving forward with the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill that will contain a huge chunk of Joe Biden's agenda for his first term, and get back to the August recess while House committees got to work actually writing their parts of the actual reconciliation bill. But noooooo, a group of nine "centrist" or "moderate" or "conservative-leaning" House Democrats have blocked that plan, for the moment at least, because they do not like this tricksy "two-track" plan that the White House and all the other Dems in Congress have agreed to.

As you'll recall, those two tracks involved putting some of the physical infrastructure stuff from Joe Biden's American Jobs Plan into the trillion-dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill that finally passed in the Senate earlier this month. Most of the rest of what Democrats want — including child care, universal pre-K education, free community college, green energy and infrastructure, paid medical/family leave, and an expansion of Medicare to cover vision, dental, and hearing — will go into the reconciliation bill that will be passed only by Democrats, because Republicans are terrible.

The whole idea of the two-track plan is that the bipartisan piece and the reconciliation piece would have to be passed together. Progressives in both houses insisted that final passage of the bipartisan bill in the House would only happen once the reconciliation bill had been completed and passed by the Senate, essentially to prevent moderates in either house from just passing infrastructure and ditching the rest. And here's where this week's impasse arises: Those nine "moderates," led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-New Jersey), say they won't allow a vote on the budget resolution unless the bipartisan bill comes up for a vote first. They're mostly arguing that the infrastructure spending is needed right now, and shouldn't have to wait months until the reconciliation package is written and passed.

So you see the problem there. Complete opposite of the plan.

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[calguy]

1. Nancy will let them have their say

And in the end, they'll vote with her and Nancy will bring home the bacon.

[2naSalit]

3. +1

[Demsrule86]

2. The fear is the reconciliation bill might fail. It can't be done right away and if the GOP

succeeds in killing it and then nothing may pass. I say pass the bi-partisan bill and then work on the other one.