You democrats are desperate. I'm hedging my bets. Biden heads off Europe without a deal and therefore, he looks like the incompetent president that he is. This is what happens when you prioritize optics over substance.
Democrats seemed to move further apart over the course of the last 24 hours, laying bare the very real risk that President Joe Biden will fall short in his effort to secure an agreement before he arrives on the global stage later this week.
But it's Biden, in private meetings, who has repeatedly not sugar-coated his view of the stakes -- and what it would mean for him to arrive at COP26 in particular without an agreement in hand.
That looms over every minute of the next 24 hours for Democratic lawmakers.
But in this moment, two things matter most:
I disagree with the assessment. The flip side of that same coin is the 95-strong Progressive Caucus getting amnesty in the $1.2T infrastructure proposal. They've slipped it in again despite Senate Parliamentarian's rejection of it on previous iterations of the bill. And that's where the rubber meets the road. That's why Biden goes to Europe empty-handed.
Democrats seemed to move further apart over the course of the last 24 hours, laying bare the very real risk that President Joe Biden will fall short in his effort to secure an agreement before he arrives on the global stage later this week.
But it's Biden, in private meetings, who has repeatedly not sugar-coated his view of the stakes -- and what it would mean for him to arrive at COP26 in particular without an agreement in hand.
That looms over every minute of the next 24 hours for Democratic lawmakers.
But in this moment, two things matter most:
- What progressives need to see in order to agree to vote for Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure proposal?
- Can Biden and Democratic leaders secure -- or get within striking distance of - #1 with Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, two centrist Senate hold-outs, in the next 24 hours?
I disagree with the assessment. The flip side of that same coin is the 95-strong Progressive Caucus getting amnesty in the $1.2T infrastructure proposal. They've slipped it in again despite Senate Parliamentarian's rejection of it on previous iterations of the bill. And that's where the rubber meets the road. That's why Biden goes to Europe empty-handed.
