How solid are the 8 Dems lined up with @JoshGottheimer in his face off with Pelosi? Let's look at @Carolyn4GA7 -- Carolyn Bourdeaux -- one of his signatories.
Her top legislative priority, and the key to her re-election, is Raphael Warnock's Medicaid expansion measure /1
The bill will send millions to Georgia and other states who refused the Medicaid expansion, and Bourdeaux is a lead sponsor: georgiarecorder.com/2021/07/21/bou…
Also at that fundraiser is Vicente Gonzalez, another of the 8 Gottheimer has on his letter. Our story on his effort is here theintercept.com/2021/08/18/jos…
(The Medicaid lookalike measure, if it's not clear, is in the reconciliation package that Gottheimer is threatening to blow up.)
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Something extremely important went down at the House Education and Labor Committee on Friday, when a group of progressives teamed up with centrists in vulnerable districts to threaten to take down their portion of the reconciliation bill. Here's what happened /1
The bill included means-tested subsidies for child care that could be claimed only by people making up to 150% of the median area income. Typical Dem crap. Progressives, as they do, argued it should be universal. But this time they had two things they didn't have before.
First, they had big numbers, and were willing to vote as a bloc. But second, frontline Democrats on the committee *also* wanted the program to be universal. They collectively lobbied Pelosi and Chair Bobby Scott, and threatened to take it down without it.
You’re seeing vocal support for Biden’s decision to withdraw from @IlhanMN and @RepBarbaraLee but the rest of House Democrats, Squad included, have not really been loudly out there, even as the public is rallying behind Biden’s decision
Later the guy turned his camera on me and asked why I sheepdog people into the Democratic Party or some such
The problem with building your entire persona/brand/politics around the idea that nothing good can ever happen is that if something decent happens, u feel compelled to diminish it. And soon u actively try to stop good things from happening just to prove your own cynicism correct
As the socialist mayor of Burlington he talked Vermont’s lefty third party world into participating in the 1988 Democratic primary caucuses in order to elect Jesse Jackson. Jackson won VT and nearly won the nomination. Pragmatism is nothing new for Bernie.
Watching this ethan/seder/crowder thing and finally starting to get the appeal of twitch and youtube politics shows — it’s basically Bravo. Makes sense now.
Somebody’s about to overturn a table and you don’t wanna miss it…
Trying to figure out which character I am in this youtube bravo world. I’m the mostly off screen figure everybody hates yet he doesn’t really care. Maybe I’m Kelsey Grammer from the early seasons.
On one side is me & @KateAronoff talking about Marx’s reserve army to explain full employment and its value to workers, and on the other is Biden on full employment yesterday. No daylight.
Since the ‘70s, government policy, actively supported by Biden, has sought to suppress inflation by artificially increasing unemployment to keep workers competing against each other for scarce jobs. Biden’s now rejecting that entire framework.
The business-owner freakout about not being able to find workers was/is all about pushing Biden to cool the economy so desperate workers will take lower wages. For him to say the opposite in the face of that matters. From here