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========== Romney is still a traditional conservative interested in defending minority rule makers from all those Democratic takers. https://www.mediamatters.org/lou-dobbs/makers-vs-takers-romneys-47-percent-rhetoric-echoes-fox-news But what's Karl Smith been smoking? https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-28/biden-agenda-in-2022-could-depend-more-on-romney-than-on-manchin Bipartisan support for anything? Trump put an end to that after the physical infrastructure bill passed with GOP support. Romney is about as popular with Trumpists as Biden, Clinton, or Obama. They will vote down anything he proposes, especially if Biden supports it. To pass under reconciliation, the Democrats could only lose one vote if they got Romney's. Manchin and Sinema MIGHT go along - though they've fooled everybody before - but to expect the other 48 Democrats in the Senate to give up on the rest of BBB is unrealistic. #PS1biden ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-30 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Romney is still a traditional conservative interested in topic biden wordrate 0 words 115 epoch Lifetime ID 1570492949961885 impress 4 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/30/2021 12:12" reach 4 title "" type Text URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1570492949961885 ========== Is there ANY version of BBB that can pass the Senate AND the House? Not today. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/12/23/biden-manchin-child-tax-credit/ But ALL the Democrats know that failure to deliver on ANY of their promises is bad for ALL of them. GOP has two playbooks ready to roll in 2022 - either blame Democrats for doing nothing or blame Democrats for doing something. So they might as well do something promptly. Then promptly move on to voting rights. #PS1biden ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-23 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Is there ANY version of BBB that can pass the Senate AND topic biden wordrate 0 words 74 epoch Lifetime ID 1565759473768566 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/23/2021 10:12" title "With tensions simmering, Democrats plot next steps to rethink their $2 trillion spending bill" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1565759473768566 ========== It might have been a mistake to split the physical infrastructure and BBB bills. If Manchin were going to kill them anyway, better get it over sooner, and promptly move on to a plan B, than waste months of Senate time, a surprisingly scarce commodity. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/19/manchin-build-back-better-oppose-democrats-playing-soft/ It's evident that there will be no bipartisanship between Trumpists and anti-Trumpists. The physical infrastructure bill passed because of bipartisanship between anti-Trumpist Democrats and anti-Trumpist traditional conservative Republicans. The latter might have been more reasonable about BBB and voting rights if their physical infrastructure goodies were in greater jeopardy. Or maybe nothing would have ever been passed. Trumpists were hoping for that. But both Biden and the senators who voted for physical infrastructure were desperate to get something they could show voters. #PS1biden ===== impact 13 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-21 ratio 0 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title It might have been a mistake to split the physical topic biden wordrate 0 words 128 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1564718190539361 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/21/2021 21:12" sharesimpress 1 title "Opinion | Manchin’s rebuff of Build Back Better is the latest failure of Democrats playing soft" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1564718190539361 ========== If Manchin won't vote for BBB in any form and won't say what he will vote for, can he still be useful to America? It's hard to say what he might do since he listed covid as a reason to vote against BBB. That is the sort of irrelevant excuse that a Trumpist would offer, and if he meant that, he might as well accept McConnell's invitation to join the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP. I very much appreciate Manchin’s opposition - Lindsey Graham. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-joe-manchin-congress-937bac56b09dfda5be2ed70748b5cd01 Without warning, Manchin announced his decision on BBB on Fox, which is also a very Trumpist thing to do. However, if Manchin is not a 100%-on-board Trumpist then he is by definition an anti-Trumpist, and he will not really be welcome for long in the GOP, But he could announce that he is going to remain in the Democratic caucus as an independent traditional conservative, voting with other traditional conservatives on the traditional conservative issues - which includes supporting voting rights and the rule of law - which are Democratic issues now, since the GOP has abandoned them. Maybe Manchin could get one or two GOP senators to join his little caucus. They'd vote with the GOP on most things, but with the Democrats on fundamental issues of voting rights and the rule of law, rule of the people, by the people, for the people. Manchin's persuasive powers are slight, though; he tried to find 10 GOP votes for his watered-down bipartisan version of voting rights, but could only find one. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/579673-manchin-murkowski-back-revised-john-lewis-voting-rights-bill It's doubtful that Manchin will touch filibuster, even to pass his watered-down voting rights bill. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/19/manchin-opposes-build-back-better-biden-agenda/ If the GOP ever abandons Trumpist cult of personality and returns to traditional conservative principles, those anti-Trump senators would return to the GOP fold. Unless Manchin's willing to drink all the Trumpist koolaid, he's going to lose some major donors and be opposed in the primary and general elections by certified Trumpists. There will never be bipartisanship between Trumpists and anti-Trumpists but there's at least a chance between GOP anti-Trumpists and Democratic anti-Trumpists. If Manchin is willing to work on it. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-joe-manchin-congress-e7a0ca4c25c686e91cb21e166c44821b #PS1biden ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-19 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title If Manchin won't vote for BBB in any form and won't say topic biden wordrate 0 words 350 epoch Lifetime ID 1563164900694690 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/19/2021 11:12" title "Manchin not backing Dems' $2T bill, potentially dooming it | AP News" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1563164900694690 ========== Facts have nothing to do with it! GOP will say anything whether true or not. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/19/build-back-better-passes-dumb-gop-attack/ Having a SALT tax cap was a bad idea. Raising it was a bad idea. But for GOP to claim to be for middle-income taxpayers is a very bad joke. Read all about the 2017 billionaire tax relief to see what GOP really supports - https://www.one-flat-tax.net/ The Democrats could remove the SALT tax cap raise and GOP would still vote against BBB, because they vote against everything from Biden now - especially anything raising taxes on their donors - hoping that a wrecked economy will lead to GOP control of Congress in 2022. They don't even support their own bipartisan infrastructure bill any more. #PS1biden https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/19/build-back-better-passes-dumb-gop-attack/ ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-19 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Facts have nothing to do with it! GOP will say anything topic biden wordrate 0 words 119 epoch Lifetime ID 1543213316023182 impress 5 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/19/2021 15:11" reach 5 title "Opinion | As Democrats score a big BBB win, Republicans unleash the dumbest attack ever" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1543213316023182 ========== It was a straight party line vote, except for Democrat Jared Golden of Maine, who didn't like raising the SALT cap. Biden didn't like it either, but that's how the sausage gets made - it's called compromise. McCarthy's 8 hour rant might have fortified some wobbly Democrats to vote for the bill. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/us/politics/house-passes-reconciliation-bill.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/11/19/house-spending-reconciliation-bill/ https://apnews.com/article/climate-immigration-joe-biden-health-lifestyle-bff841da156cb12cd47a564f9e0267eb NOW what about Manchin and Sinema? #PS1biden ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-19 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title It was a straight party line vote, except for Democrat topic biden wordrate 0 words 59 epoch Lifetime ID 1542979322713248 impress 6 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/19/2021 07:11" reach 6 title "Dems' sweeping social, climate bill passes divided House" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1542979322713248 ========== Republicans said the latest legislation would give tax breaks to some wealthy taxpayers https://apnews.com/article/climate-immigration-joe-biden-health-lifestyle-bff841da156cb12cd47a564f9e0267eb Oh the horror! We all thought GOP loved tax breaks to wealthy taxpayers! But perhaps translation is required here - some wealthy taxpayers means major Democratic donors. McCarthy proved his leadership mettle by ranting aimlessly for 8 hours to beat Pelosi's record. He's trying so hard to prove he'll be a FIGHTER for Trump if he becomes speaker! Strom Thurmond, the founder of the modern Dixiecrat GOP, would be so proud. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-mccarthy-reconciliation/2021/11/19/3a07263c-48e9-11ec-b05d-3cb9d96eb495_story.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/us/politics/kevin-mccarthy-speech.html https://apnews.com/article/immigration-donald-trump-joe-biden-kevin-mccarthy-congress-4e62762dee96af071d139ac9d4624b01 But what if Trump ran for Congress in 2022 in some safe district and demanded to be elected Speaker, so he could succeed Biden and Harris after they were impeached and convicted for the high crime of opposing Trump? Then poor Kevin would have debased himself for nothing. But Trump enjoys watching people debase themselves in the hope - often in vain - of some fleeting favor. Just ask Mitt Romney! Maybe Trump would let Kevin be majority leader. Where does the Constitution say that the Speaker can't be the same person as the President? Or that President Trump couldn't nominate himself to serve on the Supreme Court as well? That would show Putin and Xi who the REAL strong leader is! And then the constitutional amendment making him President for Life, and to top off his imperial presidency, declare that he is in fact immortal and the Second Coming of God as prophesied in a tweet - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tweets-quote-calling-him-the-second-coming-of-god-to-jews-in-israel/ Even if some of these dreams never come to pass, the effort would serve to illuminate who in the GOP is REALLY loyal to the Trump personality cult and eliminate those merely going through the motions out of self-serving opportunism. Of course, a self-serving opportunist at the top is going to attract self-serving opportunists all the way down, so the purge might be extensive. But the only way to become immortal is to die, and GOP has plenty of would-be successors to Trumpism, even worse than Trump because abler and bolder, that would secretly hope and pray for his early immortality. Just as in ancient imperial Rome! #PS1biden https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-mccarthy-reconciliation/2021/11/19/3a07263c-48e9-11ec-b05d-3cb9d96eb495_story.html ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-19 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Republicans said the latest legislation would give tax topic biden wordrate 0 words 350 epoch Lifetime ID 1542917046052809 impress 3 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/19/2021 05:11" reach 3 title "Dems' sweeping social, climate bill passes divided House" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1542917046052809 ========== The House Democrats finally accomplished something. They passed an infrastructure bill that had already passed the Senate months ago. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/11/05/house-infrastructure-reconciliation-vote/ Since the outcome of BBB is still in doubt - it may be weeks before the CBO weighs in - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/upshot/biden-budget-scorekeepers-cbo.html they all recognized that they had better do SOMEthing while they still could. GOP proved the couldn't even draft, much less pass, an infrastructure bill in four years, just as they could never quite remember how to write their Obamacare replacement that would provide better coverage at lower cost to more Americans. When it comes to legislation, GOP is better at blocking and tackling than passing - or even drafting. Their internal divisions make the Democrats look sensible, but that doesn't show as long as they don't try to pass anything. Being GOP, they don't need to pass anything to please their donors. Thus, although the Senate bill passed on a bipartisan basis, in the House, Republicans voted 200-13 against it. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/05/us/politics/house-vote-infrastructure.html #PS1biden https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/11/05/house-infrastructure-reconciliation-vote/ ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-05 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The House Democrats finally accomplished something. topic biden wordrate 0 words 161 epoch Lifetime ID 1533792573631923 impress 10 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/05/2021 20:11" reach 10 title "Congress approves $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, sending measure to Biden for enactment" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1533792573631923 ========== Persuadable swing voters mostly don't follow politics or economics closely. They couldn't tell you what BBB contained even if it weren't constantly shifting. They mostly got the price tag - trillions of dollars! without comparison to e.g. the 2017 GOP billionaire tax relief. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/05/virginia-results-build-back-better/ Some were motivated by culture wars, but most persuadables vote their pocketbooks, and, not following politics or economics closely, blamed Biden for supply chain issues, labor shortages, and inflation. That negative outlook might have increased the appeal of culture wars. The way to get the persuadables next time is to pass BBB and change their lives for the better. #PS1biden ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-05 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Persuadable swing voters mostly don't follow politics or topic biden wordrate 0 words 103 epoch Lifetime ID 1533450146999499 impress 7 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/05/2021 08:11" reach 7 title "Opinion | A dangerous myth about those big Democratic losses is threatening Biden’s agenda" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1533450146999499 ========== The Democratic majority in 2023 is in great peril. Democrats must show SOME accomplishments that seem tangible to persuadable voters, most of whom vote their pocketbooks because they don't follow politics. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/opinion/biden-voting-filibuster.html To have even a chance of keeping control and preventing GOP from undoing everything he's done, Biden must pass some version of BBB before he can tackle voting rights and filibuster. AND he must somehow keep the GOP from forcing a default on debt or from shutting down the government, which they'd love to do to make Biden look bad to the persuadables. It's a complicated obstacle course with many paths to failure. #PS1biden ===== impact 11 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-10-24 ratio 9 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title The Democratic majority in 2023 is in great peril. topic biden wordrate 0 words 105 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1525286254482555 impress 10 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/24/2021 15:10" reach 9 sharesimpress 1 title "Opinion | Biden, Tepid in the Face of Catastrophe" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1525286254482555 ========== A carbon tax offset by universal basic income might make sense. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-ubi.html Economists support carbon tax - but not GOP senators, who are opposed to any tax. So that's no solution to the Manchin problem, since he won't touch filibuster. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/16/climate/democrats-carbon-tax-climate.html == Maybe one shouldn't say opposed to any tax. How many GOP senators, and their state legislatures, would support repeal of the 24th amendment in order to revive the poll tax? With literacy tests to follow? #PS1biden ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-10-17 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title A carbon tax offset by universal basic income might topic biden wordrate 0 words 76 epoch Lifetime ID 1520618031616044 impress 8 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/17/2021 16:10" reach 7 title "Democrats Weigh Carbon Tax After Manchin Rejects Key Climate Provision" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1520618031616044 ========== Is Biden competent? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/opinion/joe-biden-democratic-party.html It's hard to say - he started out well, but Afghanistan looked bad because it was - but it's hard to believe that defeat was going to look much different no matter who pulled the plug. Manchin and Sinema can block all of Biden's initiatives but haven't said what they would support. McConnell has gotten over bipartisanship and promised to block everything Democratic, looking forward to wrecking the economy and blaming Biden. Inflation and price increases was a surprise dividend of the Trump and Biden covid relief, but would have been a problem anyway because of supply shortages due to covid in foreign manufacturing countries, interacting with the overlooked weaknesses of just-in-time logistics. There is massive unemployment and massive help-wanted due to covid fears, aided and abetted by GOP governors and legislators, and due to lack of child care, and due to massive rethinking of the meaning of life and work, also thanks to covid. That means wages are rising, to the dismay of GOP donors. GOP will blame Biden for all that, and Democrats won't. Persuadable voters in swing states will vote their pocketbooks, which is why the GOP is keen to prevent further economic recovery. #PS1biden ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-10-14 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Is Biden competent? topic biden wordrate 0 words 201 epoch Lifetime ID 1518315738512940 impress 11 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/14/2021 13:10" reach 9 title "Opinion | Where Biden Is Most Vulnerable" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1518315738512940 ========== It's more children, or more immigration, or a lower standard of living. Even GOP should understand that. Anything that makes having children less of an economic catastrophe is a good idea in mature western democracies. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ But more means-testing bureaucrats is the wrong answer! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/09/opinion/family-policy-manchin.html What we need is a simple program that every voter can understand, even if it provides a minor benefit to the wealthy. As McConnell emphasizes at every opportunity, GOP will vote against anything Biden proposes, and moderate Democrat legislators need to get over that and act without them. #PS1biden ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-10-10 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title It's more children, or more immigration, or a lower topic biden wordrate 0 words 92 epoch Lifetime ID 1515747158769798 impress 10 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/10/2021 20:10" reach 8 title "Opinion | Joe Manchin’s Choices on Family Policy" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1515747158769798 ========== Scalise reminds us of the cost of failing to pass the Biden agenda - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/10/steve-scalise-election-stolen-2020/ Congressional Democrats need to quickly get to a realistic assessment of what's possible and enact it. The problem is not GOP - who will vote against it no matter what - but delusional Democrats. They need to understand that most voters don't really care about bipartisanship, and Trumpists will be running against them whether they pass a big Biden bill, a small one, or none at all. #PS1biden ===== impact 8 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-10-10 ratio 12 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Scalise reminds us of the cost of failing to pass the topic biden wordrate 0 words 82 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1515714298773084 impress 13 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/10/2021 19:10" reach 12 title "Opinion | Steve Scalise still can’t break the grip of Trump’s lies" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1515714298773084 ========== A revolutionary disguised as a evolutionary! "hard-working, decent American people who are really having it stuck to them" Sounds like something Trump would say, but Biden said it. The difference is Biden means it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/joe-biden-is-a-paradigm-shifter/2021/03/27/1658854c-8e76-11eb-a6bd-0eb91c03305a_story.html He's redefining bipartisanship - "getting support from rank-and-file Republican voters, even if GOP politicians in Washington follow their long-standing habits of obstruction". Most ordinary GOP voters support the social safety net, and infrastructure work, and paying for it by taxing the rich. Major GOP donors are opposed to all that so GOP senators are as well, though they pretend otherwise in public. This "SAY one thing and DO the opposite" https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1376797479331434 is a pillar of minority rule, which is why Biden is bypassing them and appealing directly to voters. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1biden https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/joe-biden-is-a-paradigm-shifter/2021/03/27/1658854c-8e76-11eb-a6bd-0eb91c03305a_story.html ===== impact 12 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-03-29 ratio 17 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title A revolutionary disguised as a evolutionary! topic biden wordrate 0 words 123 engaged 1 ID 1383853671959148 impress 19 likeclickusers 1 likeuimpress 17 likeuusers 16 oimpress 19 oreach 17 posted "03/29/2021 07:19:40 AM" reach 17 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1383853671959148 ========== San Jose is proud to see Cesar Chavez in the Oval Office! https://www.sanjose.org/listings/chavez-family-home Along with Martin Luther King Jr. - and Harry Truman! Truman got the Marshall Plan through Congress to contain Stalin, and led on civil rights, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman#Civil_rights pushing Strom Thurmond to found the modern Republican Party. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-race-and-ethnicity-immigration-7e5e5cf901ba66174f2bbc175f1625f0 #PS1biden ===== impact 71 impactrate 0 likeimpress 12 negative 0 posted 2021-01-21 ratio 3 react 15 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title San Jose is proud to see Cesar Chavez in the Oval Office! topic biden wordrate 0 words 47 audclicks 3 audreach 3 engaged 15 ID 1340068829670966 impress 54 likeclickusers 15 likeimpress 12 likeuimpress 51 likeusers 12 likeuusers 50 matchedlinkclicks 3 oimpress 54 oreach 51 posted "01/21/2021 05:30:34 PM" postlinkclicks 3 reach 51 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1340068829670966