Sell out the poor. Oh, and cut the IRS budget so that they can’t go after billionaire tax cheats:
Biden and McCarthy agreed to offset additional reductions in domestic spending by clawing back and redirecting other money. That included funds set aside to help the IRS pursue unpaid taxes, which Republicans long have opposed, according to two other individuals who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the sensitive negotiations. The two men also agreed to rescind some money previously authorized to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden and McCarthy also agreed to several provisions unrelated to federal spending and the nation’s fiscal health. They came to terms around new rules that would ease permitting around energy projects. And they brokered a deal around a key GOP demand: new work requirements on low-income Americans who receive food assistance under the program known as SNAP, one of the individuals said.
Once again, it’ll be up to Democrats to swallow hard and accept this deal. They flat-out shouldn’t, despite the cheerleading from Daily Kos. You can bet, though, that LBR, Carper and Coons will, with Coons fulsomely praising the bipartisanship of it all.
Groundhog Day. New groundhogs, please.
Dysfunctional Senator Disgraces Herself. BTW, didja know that her chief caregiver is–Nancy Pelosi’s daughter?:
When Senator Dianne Feinstein entered a hearing room this month to reclaim her seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee after a monthslong absence, she was accompanied by a phalanx of aides.
Two staff members settled the 89-year-old California Democrat into a chair at the dais as the assembled senators greeted their ailing colleague with a round of applause. When Ms. Feinstein spoke — during a vote on one of several of President Biden’s judicial nominees whose approval had awaited her return — she appeared to read from a piece of paper handed to her by a female aide seated behind her.
“I ask to be recorded as voting in person on the three nominees considered earlier, Mr. Chairman, and I vote aye now,” she said.
The aide knelt next to her and whispered into her ear in between votes — popping up repeatedly from her seat to confer with the senator, at one point clearing away the paper Ms. Feinstein had read from and presenting her with a folder that appeared to contain background information about the nominees.
Oh, the Nancy Pelosi thingy? You see, Pelosi supports Adam Schiff. Were Feinstein to resign, Gov. Newsome has pledged to fill the seat with a Black woman, likely Rep. Barbara Lee. So, even here, Machiavellian machinations are being employed. Along with Pelosi’s daughter.
DeSantis Vs. Constitution. With any other Supreme Court, the results would be pre-ordained:
This “war on woke” serves as the central justification and argument for DeSantis’ bid for the GOP nomination. By challenging the supposed liberal tilt in American culture as expressed in schools, the media and the corporate workplace culture, this “war,” and the legislation behind it, shows DeSantis as a culture fighter who gets things done.
But there’s one big problem for DeSantis’ war: the U.S. Constitution.
Broad swathes of DeSantis’ anti-woke agenda — from restrictions on the teaching of social science about race in colleges and universities, to bans on corporate diversity training to limits on public protests — have been temporarily suspended by judges who found them very likely to be in violation of the first and 14th amendments.
In suspending these laws, federal judges called them “positively dystopian” and the defenses presented in court “wholly at odds with accepted constitutional principles.” The suspended provisions of the laws may yet be upheld as they move through appeals courts and, possibly, U.S. Supreme Court review, but, at the moment, DeSantis’ offensive against the “woke mind virus” has been partially reversed.
One of the laws partially suspended is the pillar of DeSantis’ war: The Individual Freedom Act, popularly known as the Stop WOKE Act, prohibits the promotion or advancement of eight concepts related to race in public schools, colleges and universities and in private-sector corporate trainings. The definitions of the prohibited concepts are based on a Trump administration executive order banning government contractors from engaging employees in certain diversity training programs.
Excellent article. Even the Supreme Court will likely think twice about ruling these laws constitutional.
Headline From Today’s News-Journal. A ‘subscribers-only’ article at that: All you need to know about Nicola Pizza’s new location in Lewes. Uh, I’ll take a stab at it. They sell pizza. They have a new location in Lewes. You’re welcome.
What do you want to talk about?
O.K., Biden’s very old, past his prime and as a staunch corporate Dem has not got a lot of zeal for doing what the downtrodden need. Neither do any of the rest, the ascendant LBR included. As for DeSantis, here after known as The Woke Joke, I see him as nothing, repeat nothing when it comes to personality, as noted he now seeks to do battle with the constitution. Also as noted a far right rogue court or not he’s over matched, especially if evil Uncle Clarence is impeached or forced to resign, sadly either is doubtful.
The deal sounds worse than the Obama/Biden budget sequestration deal. At least the sequester hit defense spending too.
That sequester ensured anemic GDP growth and created the jobless recovery, so we’re probably looking forward to the same now. Good luck running on that Joe (and Dem Senators). When Trump claims he had higher GDP and job growth, he’ll be right.
I think it’s very likely there aren’t enough GOP votes for this anyway. They got 5% of what they wanted.
They don’t need all the GOP to vote for this. There will be enough Democrats to push it over the finish line.
Not even these Democrats will walk the plank unless a significant majority of the Rethugs vote for it.
Yays 160R 90D
69 Senate
Missed my prediction in the House in a good way😎
“Biden Breaks Word, Negotiates With Terrorists, Cuts Shitty Deal. Retire, you fucking old fart!:”
First, this level of vitriol is unsupported and unsupportable. Be your calmer self. No one needs to hear you roar.
Been saying for some time that Biden shouldn’t cave. Only natural since Biden said he wouldn’t cave. He caved.
Seriously, don’t tell me what the fuck to do. Especially since my position is both supported and supportable.
What do you suppose would be the outcome of a debt ceiling debate when Dems lost control of the House in 2022. Biden was right to take his first position, “no negotiations” until he had to commit to concessions to pass the debt ceiling bill. Bad, but considering how much worse it could have been, he did well. Want fewer concessions? Win elections. (what happened to New York, easily accounting for the flipped five.) I have enough to do without telling you what to do, not to mention I respect the way you use your voice, most of the time.
They had ample time, even BEFORE they lost the House, to raise the debt ceiling. Janet Yellen urged them to. They didn’t. Where was Biden?
Biden dawdled until the 14th Amendment option fell outside the time-sensitive parameters. He dismissed other options, including minting the coin, which should have been a legit option.
Instead, he was forced to negotiate b/c he didn’t do anything to forestall it.
I would have felt triumphant about a 14th amendment solution for about a day or so.
After that, all Republicans would run against the economy as illegitimate. And that would sell well enough for them to sweep 2024. Especially after the Supreme Court ruled against Biden on the 14th.