Time for progressives to make like an electric truck and #TankIt, I suppose.
https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1443297346054393864
If a counterparty in a negotiation refuses to even begin negotiating, there’s little choice left but to move along to the best alternative to a negotiated agreement. That’s not the BIF — which falls short of addressing the climate challenge and other needs. It’s nothing.
If Manchin’s best alternative to a negotiated agreement proves to be nothing as well, we may be stuck. At least we’ll have clarity about that situation, though.
https://twitter.com/hirokotabuchi/status/1439672767557914627
This statement from Manchin illustrates the point. What separates the infrastructure investments in the BIF from the investments in human infrastructure — child care, pre-K, Medicaid expansion — that _directly_ relieve costs that burden the working class?
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1443322646033276934
To drill down: why is it “vengefully tax[ing],” by Manchin’s lights, to revise the tax code so the wealthy no longer pay lower percentages than workers — but not vengeful to impose a work requirement on a *child tax credit* designed to aid the next generation? 
The Manchin statement has no substance to engage with; it’s all affect, all show. If that’s all he can offer while expecting House Dems to pass the BIF tomorrow, progressives have no choice but to #TankIt.
To take up another Manchin line, that other Dems “ignore the reality that … families continue pay [sic] an unavoidable inflation tax”: Biden proposes to *remedy* inflation for core costs—child & health care, housing, education. Manchin mistakes the cure for the disease.
Meyer is right: the 49th and 50th votes seem at odds with _each other_, never mind the Dem caucus.
Another example: Manchin named prescription drug price negotiation as a policy, along with the child tax credit, he’s open to including. But Sinema seems categorically opposed:
Another example: Manchin named prescription drug price negotiation as a policy, along with the child tax credit, he’s open to including. But Sinema seems categorically opposed:
https://twitter.com/yayitsrob/status/1443377642992984069
(Source for the above tweet: see link below.)
If Manchin wants to raise some income taxes and negotiate prescription drug prices while Sinema says ix-nay to both, it’s difficult to see how a consensus might eventually develop _between them_. politico.com/news/2021/09/1…
If Manchin wants to raise some income taxes and negotiate prescription drug prices while Sinema says ix-nay to both, it’s difficult to see how a consensus might eventually develop _between them_. politico.com/news/2021/09/1…
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