Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act has passed!

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Anonymous wrote: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.

+1 This is great and it’s going to be better.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Least of all the Republicans who called it communism, voted against it, and will nevertheless show up for the ribbon cuttings.

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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.

+1 It was the moderate Rs, for the most part.

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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?

+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."

People are fairly simple minded when it comes to government, because most don't have time or interest into digging into all the weeds. What most believe, on both sides of the party fence, is that the military (aka defense spending) is one of the top three things our government should spend on. Social security and medicare/aid being the other two. When the numbers are so large and our deficit so large, the numbers become numbing and people just generally say, "ok". That's why they are popular. Also, it is political suicide to not fully support our men and women in the service. Not saying I agree, but just explaining why it is.

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“Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, commended Congress “for setting aside partisan differences to pass a bill that works for the American people.”

With nearly $600 billion in new federal aid to improve highways, bridges, dams, public transit, rail, ports, airports, water quality and broadband over 10 years, the legislation is a once-in-a-generation chance to overhaul the nation’s public works system. And it offers a rare opportunity for states that for decades have been forced to balance huge short-term backlogs of repairs and upgrades against larger, longer-term projects and needs.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/us/states-infrastructure-bill-funding.html?referringSource=articleShare

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Anonymous wrote:I have a lot more respect for the 13 Republicans that I do those 6 Democrats.

+1000.

It's good to see there are at least some Republicans who still care about the advancement of our nation and not letting our infrastructure fall behind and crumble, as opposed to all of the other jackasses who've placed partisanship ahead of what's best for the country.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Least of all the Republicans who called it communism, voted against it, and will nevertheless show up for the ribbon cuttings.

They need welcoming committees to shame them and call out their hypocrisy at every single ribbon cutting they try showing up at.

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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.

+1 It was the moderate Rs, for the most part.

So we’ve got all of the 13, count them, 13 Republicans capable of getting more money for their districts. That’s not saying much.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a lot more respect for the 13 Republicans that I do those 6 Democrats.

+1000.

It's good to see there are at least some Republicans who still care about the advancement of our nation and not letting our infrastructure fall behind and crumble, as opposed to all of the other jackasses who've placed partisanship ahead of what's best for the country.

How naive are you to not know that the six knew that it would pass? Do you think they don’t count votes? You think it’s some big surprise?

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Hats off to Sinema, Manchin, and the Republicans and Democrats in the Senate who architected the bill and made it happen!!


Boo to the progressive that held it hostage!

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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.

As an immigrant, people like this are the reason I moved over to the republican party. From what I see, the republicans have often had achievements and careers outside politics. They aren’t just complaining adult sized babies who throw tantrums all day that they aren’t allowed to spend even more of someone else’s money. I know not all democrats are that bad, but I just can’t stand the ones who are.

Even the ‘good’ ones like Biden have done nothing with their lives except spend our money. There should be term limits for all politicians so they are forced to work for a living at least some of the time.

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Anonymous wrote:Hats off to Sinema, Manchin, and the Republicans and Democrats in the Senate who architected the bill and made it happen!!


Boo to the progressive that held it hostage!

Up is down, I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a lot more respect for the 13 Republicans that I do those 6 Democrats.

+1000.

It's good to see there are at least some Republicans who still care about the advancement of our nation and not letting our infrastructure fall behind and crumble, as opposed to all of the other jackasses who've placed partisanship ahead of what's best for the country.

How naive are you to not know that the six knew that it would pass? Do you think they don’t count votes? You think it’s some big surprise?

Do you think they're making some monumental statement by not voting for it? They look churlish and immature.

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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.

As an immigrant, people like this are the reason I moved over to the republican party. From what I see, the republicans have often had achievements and careers outside politics. They aren’t just complaining adult sized babies who throw tantrums all day that they aren’t allowed to spend even more of someone else’s money. I know not all democrats are that bad, but I just can’t stand the ones who are.

Even the ‘good’ ones like Biden have done nothing with their lives except spend our money. There should be term limits for all politicians so they are forced to work for a living at least some of the time.

This is a really weird flex given that we’ve been watching one looooong tantrum from the GOP for several years.

Sour grapes. That’s all the GOP and their voters have.