Neal says Sinema is ready to deal

[AZProgressive]

The head of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee said Thursday that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), one of the centrist holdouts resisting President Biden's sweeping economic agenda, is ready to get a deal.

Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.) said he spoke with Sinema for roughly 30 to 40 minutes Thursday morning in an effort to break the impasse over Biden's massive social benefits package. According to Neal, Sinema indicated that a failure to pass the president's top agenda item is not an option.

"I started the conversation with that. I said, 'Kyrsten, this has got to pass.' She said, 'I couldn't agree more,' " Neal told reporters outside the Capitol.

(Snip)

"I made the argument for efficiency in tax policy, and the way you do that is simplicity of corporate increases, and pointed out that not only are they efficient, but they weren't punitive - [that] this was still good pro-growth economics," Neal said.

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[Takket]

1. and after she left the room she laughed her ass off for an hour before calling her right wing donors

to tell them her price has just gone up again.

[leftstreet]

3. +1

[sprinkleeninow]

8. And curtsied while holding her right hand up into the air....

[Blaukraut]

2. I'll believe it when she actually says so herself

Every time someone has had a conversation with Sinema and has later stated that she is open to this, that, or the other thing, Sinema turns around and has more objections.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Sad to say I agree with you...

we'll see.

Lawrence O'Donnell is reporting now that there is a deal with Sinema. Let's hope.

[CentralMass]

11. Someone will give her another suitcase full of rubles and she'll flip back.

[qazplm135]

4. We shall see

She's burning a ton of bridges, maybe she's starting to rethink that strategy.

[Takket]

6. nah. she doesn't care about bridges. She's in the Senate to get filthy rich stopping Biden's agenda

for the rethugs. She'll get primaried out eventually and then become a lobbyist and rake in even more

[qazplm135]

13. I mean if that were set in stone

she wouldn't agree to anything at all. She appears to be agreeing to at least some things. I always put incompetence and stupidity as the answer before pure evil.

[dweller]

5. And after all

Why should Manchin get all the attention …




✌🏻

[Stinky The Clown]

9. Neal is a force. Very low profile. Quiet and effective.

Not prone to blowing smoke.

[PoliticAverse]

10. "Sinema did not agree, he said" ... "She didn't say no, she just listened to what I had to say."

To pass a bill, you need "affirmative consent".

[Alhena]

12. I'd love to hear her articulate her love of corporations

At least I can understand where Manchin is coming from, that's garden variety Blue Dog Dem stuff.

[msfiddlestix]

14. but the excerpt isn't the full story, is it?

what's the bottom line regarding her vote?