Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act has passed!

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“America” does not want both bills. Many more people are against the second bill.

Au contraire

So other than your opinion, where is your proof that the majority of Americans oppose BBB?

Also remember, what percentage of Americans do the Dems represent in the House and Senate as compared to the GOP? How many votes did Biden win in the 2020 election?

He RAN on this agenda and won handily, and now he is delivering for the American people.

He ran on whatever. He won because he wasn’t Trump.

And I’m sure if you polled Americans and asked them if they wanted $1 million deposited into their accounts they’d say YES. Doesn’t make it fiscal policy that anyone sane would support.

Well its a good thing that there isn't a provision to dump a million dollars into every American's account then, right?

There will be in 2022 if the Squad is let loose again.

I think they are too deep in your head. The fact is, a coalition of rank and file House members passed this bill. The sqaud is fringe.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve never seen a less intelligent, less qualified group of politicians than the squad. They’ve accomplish absolutely nothing during their tenure and seem to view their jobs as being yammering mouthpieces of the professional protester class. Disgusting losers.

Add Bernie to that mix. Take a look at his career accomplishments. Almost ZERO bills he's passed, except for a few garbage items like renaming a post office. Bernie is known for basically being an assh*Le to work with. The squad is similar.

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Anonymous wrote:This should have happened over the summer. But instead of reining in the caucus then, Biden and Pelosi cut the progressives and moderates too much slack -- allowing this damaging and unnecessary political debacle to take place. Sure, the infrastructure bill passed, but only because enough GOP members hopped on board. The division between moderates and progressives is still there.

The jury is still out on the budget reconciliation bill, which still has several hurdles in front of it -- both in the House and Senate.

The Ds need to get their act together fast. They've already damaged themselves politically as thousands of voters switched to GOP candidates in Virginia and New Jersey this past week.

The Squad would have voted for it if there weren't GOP votes. Don't kid yourself.

No I watched the vote live - only Ayanns Pressley waited til the bill passed with enough votes to down vote it. The Squad is worse than a GOP - they will kill a package with broad party support which hasn’t been seen in decades because it doesn’t have their toys in it. Not only are they unable to get any legislation passed (check their voting history) they’re dangerous because they’re willing to hold up GOOD legislation for 90 days and still not vote it through.

And the GOP’s failure to get in line with what America wants - both bills, that is - is, what? “Boys will be boys”?

The GOP - men and women - is the only reason it passed. Compromise. Which the Squad failed to do and has failed to do for three years in office which is why their social welfare bill is dead as a doornail. They wouldn’t even agree to have a means test of a paltry $2,500/yr in income for the CTC. That is just insane. No one can work with that and clearly they didn’t consider they boxed themselves into a corner with no off-ramp by doing so.

All the Republicans that voted for this bill are from states and districts that they would lose if they did not vote for this. Hardly a compromise. Democrats championed and overwhelmingly supported this bill.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve never seen a less intelligent, less qualified group of politicians than the squad. They’ve accomplish absolutely nothing during their tenure and seem to view their jobs as being yammering mouthpieces of the professional protester class. Disgusting losers.

Add Bernie to that mix. Take a look at his career accomplishments. Almost ZERO bills he's passed, except for a few garbage items like renaming a post office. Bernie is known for basically being an assh*Le to work with. The squad is similar.

I heard this for a long time. Basically the congresspeople with the worst track record of no legislation passed got together and decided to form a band at the expense of the public. Hopefully they’ll be shoved into a closet now.

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The PP is right. We did not sign up for the social welfare bills. Just normalcy. Glad to see the moderates and independents once more having a voice in the party.

Look at the polling. The BBB is enjoying uniform support across political parties and across the country.

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It is more fiscally responsible than the infrastructure bill that passed last night.

Facts are important.

The facts are that the vast majority of Americans have no idea what’s in the bill so how could it possibly have widespread support? And the absurd shell games and accounting buffoonery that was employed to market it as a cost of 1.75T has already been exposed as an outright lie. So yeah, where again are your facts that the majority of Americans support a $4T package of social boondoggles when our existing social security will be bankrupt in our lifetime?

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Fun fact: The dems did better on Tuesday's election than any other first year post-presidential election in generations. Yes, they "lost" Virginia, but they did really well otherwise. THAT isn't how things are being reported.

They only did well in cities and districts that are so blue they’re essentially non-competitive.

I mean -- Americans mostly live in cities. Per a quick Google: 83% of the U.S. population lives in urban areas. So, I guess, "if you ignore most of the country, Democrats didn't do that well, actually" is a take one can have.

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The PP is right. We did not sign up for the social welfare bills. Just normalcy. Glad to see the moderates and independents once more having a voice in the party.

Look at the polling. The BBB is enjoying uniform support across political parties and across the country.

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It is more fiscally responsible than the infrastructure bill that passed last night.

Facts are important.

And yet a majority of senators are perfectly comfortable not voting for it because there will be no consequences from voters if they dont. Unless you have an electorate that is so fired up for the legislation all the polls you reference mean nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve never seen a less intelligent, less qualified group of politicians than the squad. They’ve accomplish absolutely nothing during their tenure and seem to view their jobs as being yammering mouthpieces of the professional protester class. Disgusting losers.

Marjorie Taylor Greene comes to mind but I agree. They need to be stripped of committee assignments and ignored.

Agree about Greene but thankfully there’s only one of her!

there are a few on the extreme right.. Hawley, Boebert (I'm sure I did not spell her name right).... extremism on both sides (yes, both sides) is going to kill this country.

Politics is all about compromise. I agree with a PP who stated that if those politicians are not willing to compromise to get things done then go be community organizers and mouthpieces for some media. Let the grown ups keep the country runnning.

-moderate.

Gaetz, Banks, Jordan come to mind as horrible, deranged partisans.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve never seen a less intelligent, less qualified group of politicians than the squad. They’ve accomplish absolutely nothing during their tenure and seem to view their jobs as being yammering mouthpieces of the professional protester class. Disgusting losers.

Yes, it is like they are GOP.

+1000. This successful legal immigrant agrees. Would have jumped ship from the Democratic party a while ago if the GOP weren't the disaster they are.

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The PP is right. We did not sign up for the social welfare bills. Just normalcy. Glad to see the moderates and independents once more having a voice in the party.

Look at the polling. The BBB is enjoying uniform support across political parties and across the country.

AND

It is more fiscally responsible than the infrastructure bill that passed last night.

Facts are important.

The facts are that the vast majority of Americans have no idea what’s in the bill so how could it possibly have widespread support? And the absurd shell games and accounting buffoonery that was employed to market it as a cost of 1.75T has already been exposed as an outright lie. So yeah, where again are your facts that the majority of Americans support a $4T package of social boondoggles when our existing social security will be bankrupt in our lifetime?

+1. It's like Americans "support the military," and yet they have no idea what it costs, what is being purchased with that money, or how it's being paid for. What is it these days: like $7.25 trillion over 10 years? The U.S. represents like 40% of the world's total military expenditures - so clearly, we've got some unnecessary bloat in there. And yet, these expenditures are very "popular."

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Murphy was winning New Jersey by 2.6%

In an election too close to call for nearly a week

What kind of f**ked up metric is that? The votes are the votes. You want to attach significance to the order in which they were counted? The iverm*ct*n is rotting your brain.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve never seen a less intelligent, less qualified group of politicians than the squad. They’ve accomplish absolutely nothing during their tenure and seem to view their jobs as being yammering mouthpieces of the professional protester class. Disgusting losers.

Marjorie Taylor Greene comes to mind but I agree. They need to be stripped of committee assignments and ignored.

Agree about Greene but thankfully there’s only one of her!

there are a few on the extreme right.. Hawley, Boebert (I'm sure I did not spell her name right).... extremism on both sides (yes, both sides) is going to kill this country.

Politics is all about compromise. I agree with a PP who stated that if those politicians are not willing to compromise to get things done then go be community organizers and mouthpieces for some media. Let the grown ups keep the country runnning.

-moderate.

There is no “both sides.” It’s a lazy, intellectually bankrupt argument. There are precious few grownups in the GOP at all.

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Murphy was winning New Jersey by 2.6%

In an election too close to call for nearly a week

What kind of f**ked up metric is that? The votes are the votes. You want to attach significance to the order in which they were counted? The iverm*ct*n is rotting your brain.

AP and NBC called it 24 hours after the polls closed so I have no idea what PP is talking about. It’s not close.

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This bill will have an enormous impact all over America. No one will remember all the stupid sausage making when the shovels come out at the ribbon cuttings.