also some notable @AOC praise of Schumer and him moving quickly/ignoring Susan Collins, given all the "will she primary him?" chatter: “Schumer spoke to the very real pain of delaying decisive action, which is a self-inflicted wound, I would say, for the party.
fwiw, here's some of the Dem/Biden/Schumer shade toward the '09 response that @theodoricmeyer and I reported last week.
Schumer called Obama’s $787 billion package “small” and “measly.”
Clyburn: “One of the—if not the biggest—mistakes that Obama made, in my opinion, was getting the Recovery Act done and not explaining to people what he had done.”
Biden:
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In a 1995 NYT op-ed explaining his vote for the Balanced Budget Amendment, Biden wrote that "trying to spend our way out of recessions is no longer an option.”
If he had succeeded, he wudn have ben able to sign the ARP last week. politico.com/newsletters/tr…
Biden's career is more fiscal hawk than dove.
He pushed for spending freezes in the 1980s
he opposed raising the debt ceiling in 2006 b/c of what he said was W.'s “record of indifference to the price our children and grandchildren will pay to redeem our debt when it comes due.”
In 2008, his presidential campaign website pledged to "adopt a Pay-As-You-Go budget."
12 yrs later as president, his first legislative proposal was the biggest deficit spending package in history.
An ex who I haven’t spoken to in a while just texted me:
“Alex, you can’t write crazy things about bagels on Twitter. People I know start texting me and demanding I defend your position because ‘didn’t you date this guy after me’ and ‘you seriously let this guy sleep in our apt’”
Liz Cheney says Rs "should not be embracing the former president" and "somebody who has provoked an attack on the...Capitol to prevent the counting of electoral votes, which resulted in 5 ppl dying..that is a person who does not have a role as a leader of our party going forward"
Cheney says she talked to officer Sicknick's mother this week. More: "the single greatest threat to our public is a president who would put his own self-interest above the constitution, above the national interest."
Shorter clip from part from @FoxNewsSunday:
"we've had a situation where President Trump claimed for months that the election was stolen and then apparently set about to do everything he could to steal it himself and that ended up in an attack on the capitol, five people killed"
WH says don't expect Biden to talk about impeachment next week. Like at all.
Steve Ricchetti is giving in & is getting an official WH twitter, we're told. Welcome. Twitter's not real life, Steve. It's worse. politico.com/newsletters/tr…
Obama aides have been sending around this clip of Jon Tester this week from @MaritsaNBCMT where he talks about how Wednesday was the 1st time he was in the Oval.
Some felt sheepish about somehow never having him in the Oval during Obama’s 8 years.
The Biden admin's go-to dodge when pressed on the Covid bill:
Cedric Richmond: “Look, we're not going to negotiate on TV”
Ron Klain: "Chuck, I am not going to negotiate on Meet the Press”