We will find out if Joe can get smart by downsizing his $3.5 T wish list and finding a middle ground that works for the "Dear Santa I want a pony and a new I phone 22 and a new Apple computer, and a Peloton, and a Tesla S, but if I have a Tesla maybe I don't need a pony, Progressives" and a nice package which protects the financial assets, and sponsors of Sen Houseboat Manchin. And who the fuck knows what Sen Sinema wants other than another 15 minutes of over exposure.
And maybe Pres. Joe will get his infrastructure bill and his reconciliation BBB plan which seems poorly named as its ripping the big tent party to shreds.
Two Senators and a few House recalcitrants is not ripping the big tent party to shreds.
The Progressives are not fighting Biden they are fighting for the Biden agenda which could be described as going big.
Sinema has people confused but she is a performance artist while Manchin is losing the argument and looking like a dick.
Why should Biden fold?
Hell, he should hold out for his pony.
Larry it might have been described as big when it Sanders said $7T was a minimum but $10T was needed.
Joe then went to $4.5T and then $3.5T.
And now we are seeing a number of around $2-2.5T.
But by all means feel free to call it "big" when all the evidence reveals a different reality.
And unless some smart negotiations take place there will be nothing delivered and a lot of Dem voters will be pissed in '22. And progressive House Dems from safe seats may have won a very pyrrhic victory sitting in Kevin McCarthy''s House.
But by all means hold out for the whole fucking $3.5T pig.
And fwiw if Joe holds out for the pony, he better get a shovel too, as pony's are shovel ready upon delivery.
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