No, a few words to the media is not meaningful pushback.
Why do you avoid my main argument? Manchin is head of the energy committee. Why do Democrats keep giving so much power to a quisling, even after they were betrayed by him?
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Maybe if the Democrats gave even a tiny amount of pushback against those "quislings" then they would deserve some credit.
After all the damage Manchin has done, they still let him chair the energy committee and sit on appropriations. I'm here in reality wondering why they continue to give quislings so much power. Its almost as if the "rotating villain" is a feature, not a bug.
"We tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" isn't good enough for me, and it's sad that so many people just accept it.
Have some standards, mate.
Depends how you measure "safety".
Here in the US life expectancy is declining.
I can't afford a home, healthcare, or retirement. My parents generation could.
Climate change is doing significant damage, and it's just getting started.
But yeah, I'm less likely to be murdered. I got that going for me, which is nice.
Israel is using rockets that are made in the USA and paid for by US taxpayers to commit a genocide.
This has always been a US fight.
I dont expect Biden to get anything through the Republican house. I dont expect miracles. It's too late now.
I expected him to do something when Democrats had control of Congress. Instead he choose to follow Obama's failures and do practically nothing when the people gave Democrats control of the House, Senate, and White House.
And if you think Democrats will actually give up their role as Lesser Evil and pass ranked choice voting, then I think you are delusional.
Asking for a democratically elected leader to respond to the needs of the people isn't "curing cancer and buying puppies"
And yes Biden is better than Trump, but is that really how low you want to set the bar?
Have some standards, mate.
I dont agree that it's a competency issue.
Our leaders are hyper-competent when fighting for the interests of wall street, the military industrial complex, the oil and gas industry, the insurance industry, etc.
Powerful moneyed interests are their real constituents. They only pretend to care about the needs of real working Americans when they need votes.
I agree the infrastructure bill is a step in the right direction, but its mostly just clearing the maintenance backlog. Our infrastructure will be upgraded from "crumbling" to "poor". Its easy to forget it, most Americans already have.
Now instead of being 20 years behind China, our infrastructure will only be 15 years behind. As the richest country in the history of earth, we can do so much better than this.
And as for climate, tinkering around the edges isn't meaningful. We are still going full speed ahead towards climate ccatastrophe. We need radical change to save our civilization, and this bill ain't it, jack.
I prefer my doomerism to be vague.
Precise doomerism is just too depressing.
This article is so misleading.
Reuters considers the "Biden agenda" to be things like fighting climate change, infrastructure spending, and healthcare reform.
If Biden actually fought for the "Biden agenda" then he would be much more popular.
I'll say it another time:
You pressure manchin by stripping him of his committee assignments. This is huge leverage.
The chair of the energy committee is a very important and powerful position, and even after Manchin betrayed Bidens supposed agenda, the Democrats still give him this immense power. Why?
Hes already blocking all meaningful legislation, if he wants to give up his power and go caucus with republicans then let him. Call his bluff. If he would actually switch to (R) he would become just another run of the mill Republican. His donors would dry up, he wouldn't get headlines, he wouldnt matter anymore.