We can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good

[Baltimike]

We know what's happening. We know that Kirsten "Joe Lieberman" Sinema and Coal Joe Manchin are causing us the perfect (you know what I mean) and this forces us to settle for the good. Until we make them irrelevant with a broader majority, we're stuck with it...

A paraphrase of what I heard on the Stephanie Miller Show just now: I voted for a party that promised me a large cheese pizza with mushrooms. I expected to get a large cheese pizza with mushrooms. Instead, I only got a medium pizza with cheese. The other side wants to feed me arsenic and nails.

Things aren't as good as they could be, but they sure as shit could be much worse.

[doc03]

1. This fighting among Democrats for the last several months

is hurting us worse than if they did nothing

[Baltimike]

2. and then they do the work of the other side FOR them

divide and conquer

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. THe media coverage is certainly intended

to hurt democrats, but the actual fact of progressives standing up, working with Biden and getting something done is very good. That should be the story, actually.

If they pass this then give immediate full concentration on getting voting rights passed, there might still be hope for a future.

[Irish_Dem]

6. I think that was the plan on the part of certain senators.

Creating chaos and division.

[Wicked Blue]

4. I would not be at all surprised

if President Biden initially requested two or three times as much funding as he expected to get.

This is how labor negotiators usually work. You ask for far more than you want, and let the other side bargain you down.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Exactly, that is what I think as well. It is Negotiation 101.

I think Biden ended up with the bill he planned from the beginning.

[Baltimike]

9. I would not be surprised either. nt

[Beastly Boy]

5. Imagine if Biden had to get a single Republican on board to pass this

To use your pizza metaphor, we might have had to settle for a slice of pizza topped with arsenic.

[Baltimike]

11. absolutely. nt

[Wounded Bear]

8. Indeed. It takes more than one election cycle to change things significantly...

all of the Veruca Salt types out there on the left have to deal with it.



Just chalk up the win and let's move forward in the next cycle. Sure, it's not the Super Bowl, but it's a win.

Now run on the successes and realize that the last line in the tweet is the important one. If you vote for repubs, or sit out and let them win, they will destroy everything that was accomplished this time around. Keep the Dems in charge and run on continued improvement in the future.

[Baltimike]

10. I love this response. Thank you for posting it.

We can't always get everything we want....but we can at least make progress.

We have to rally, not waver.