Gee, where could people get the idea that you can make this happen through the bully pulpit? Could it be because you grandly announced you were going up to the Hill to talk Manchin and Sinema into doing what they repeatedly said they wouldn't do?
At least the Obama people whined about the Green Lantern stuff instead of actively encouraging it like this administration.
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Characterizing my objection to Amtrak's plan to spend BIF funds on 3h25m service from New York City to Scranton as "hating trains" is sort of emblematic of how liberals don't pay attention to whether their grand policy plans that are supposed to win elections are actually useful.
When I talk of people "wanting services on a normal schedule" I'm referring foremost to unreliable provision of K-12 school, though much of what government and private institutions do is heavily disrupted, as you may have noticed. It's the #1 way government underperforms today.
I think Dems are gravely underweighting this issue (frankly often being dismissive about it, as happened in Virginia) and are overweighting theoretical concerns about what legislatures might do in December 2024 -- which frankly would in any case fall to courts to resolve.
A lot of these academic leftists are deeply confused about the difference between money and the economy. You *can* give people money even if their work is paused, but you can't free society of the need for certain productive activities to happen. You can't close everything.
And this confusion is how you end up with the idea that expecting certain institutions to keep operating and providing services (very often public sector institutions!) is "neoliberal."
Samantha was always the most ethical of the four and now she's gone and now look what's happened
"Carrie Bradshaw goes on trial and is sent to minimum-security prison for denying Big life-saving medical care" would be a more fun plot line for this season than what we're surely going to get