The media is waiting with bated breath to report a Democratic failure

[JohnSJ]

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Beginning on Oct 1st a delay will actively be hurting President Biden because the bipartisan infrastructure spending that was agreed to will stop flowing. Nationwide governors and mayors wil be calling saying they need the funding for the Dept. of transportation, along with over 500 billion of new investments that cannot be accessed etc.

50 votes in the Senate, and 220 in the House is not a functional majority. There is zero chance of 50 votes in the Senate for a 3,5 trillion dollar bill, but they should be able to get something at a lower price.

I suspect the press will try to paint President Biden, Speaker Pelosi, and Majority leader Schumer as “losers” if passage is delayed or worse. That is a false characterization. President Biden has passed four massive pieces of legislation in a mere 9 months.

We got a fiscal year 2021 budget, a 2022 budget, we got a 1.889 trillion Covid relief bill, and a 1.2 trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure package passed in the Senate.

Those are massive accomplishments in 9 months.

Between Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer we have 100 years of legislative experience, and no one should underestimate that.

[uponit7771]

1. K&R, and acting like this bill can't be brought up later

[JohnSJ]

2. Yes

[Lovie777]

3. Any mention there won't be a government shutdown? . ...

corporation media got it's marching orders to only trash Democrats.

[Walleye]

4. Our leaders are always forced to deal with complex legislation and cutthroat politics all at once

It’s a huge accomplishment when we can get anything passed under the circumstances

[Klaralven]

5. The 1.2 trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure has not passed. It is hung up in the House.

[JohnSJ]

10. but to get it through the Senate is an accomplishment

[cutroot]

6. They are certainly not getting any traction with the Afghanistan hearings

The republicans look more and more like Wile E. Coyote every day

[doc03]

8. From watching TV reports it didn't appear that way.

What I heard from the report the Generals threw Biden
under the bus.

[Mad_Machine76]

9. The Tom Cotton rebuke

was pretty widely reported though.

[cutroot]

13. What reports did you listen to?

The generals backed President Biden all the way. I watched the hearings myself. You should

[doc03]

14. Watching MSNBC the Generals said they told Biden

to leave 2500 troops in Afganistan. Biden said they didn't tell him that and they say they did. Didn't sound so good for Biden IMO

[cutroot]

15. They said that they could not leave 2500 without support from the local govt.

I am sure that there are transcripts available if you need to know more. The report you heard may have been biased. Many are.

[doc03]

16. If I hear a report I don't like I don't automatically

think it was biased. I don't think the withdrawal from Afganistan was handled very well. And what is going on in Congress makes me pretty disappointed so far.

[cutroot]

17. President Biden took it on the chin and got us out of there as quickly and smoothly as possible

Given the flaming pile of crap that trump left for him. TFG would have let them slaughter every one.

[2Gingersnaps]

20. TFG would have abandoned the Afghans the way he did the Kurds.

He didn't pay a price for that did he? No. He isn't paying a price for giving Afghanistan to the Taliban either. His sock puppets are well trained to see what they want to see, all evidence be damned. That is the big problem with never paying a price for white collar crime. Even "white collar crime" is too pretty a euphemism for "psychotic incompetence no one saw coming and can't seem to do anything about."

[cutroot]

22. His cult will abandon him just like they dropped bush

What will be their next shiny object concerns me. His followers have gone beyond the edge of reason and sanity.

[BoomaofBandM]

7. The msm has more about progressives vs centrists than anything about how Republicans caused

most of the problems. Propaganda works. As democrats we need to stop feeding it.

[marybourg]

11. Bated

Short for "abated" or held back

[JohnSJ]

12. Thanks Mary

[Steelrolled]

18. Shocking!

And Walmart is selling stuff for more than they are paying for it!

[kimbutgar]

19. Last night I watched the NBC evening news and it was negative negative negative about

President Biden. About the debt ceiling raising it was the Democrats fault no word of Republican obstruction and the turtle saying the Democrats would have to go it alone. No word about TFG making an agreement to pull out troops of Afghanistan that the Biden administration had to honor. Covid response, no word about American Taliban governors having high rates of covid because they are against mask and vaccine mandates. I was screaming at my tv and so disappointed in Mr. Lester.

Tonight I’m going to watch ABC news instead!

[dlk]

21. Their overt conservative bias is disgusting

They don’t even try to hide it.