Make them vote “No”

Senator Elizabeth Warren was on TV this morning saying that  if the Dems had any fighting spirt it at all, they'd take the elements of the BBB plan and hold votes on them to make Republicans (plus Chris Coons, Joe Manchin, et al) vote against:
  • expanded free preschool for all 3- and 4-year-olds,
  • high-quality care for older Americans and people with disabilities in their homes
  • making the wealthy and corporations pay what they owe
  • and so on.
It is that or make like John Carney and say that your hands are tied.

DL Open Thread Tuesday January 18th 2022

Unless they are scared off by Trump, the GOP presidential primary is going to be a donnybrook because they all view Biden (or Harris) as incredibly beatable. With the changes they've made on the state level regarding how elections are run, they are probably right. Anyway, I guess I hope Liz Cheney runs, but I don't see that happening. As usual the country's assholes will be choosing a "King of the assholes" to represent them. FWIW, here is the NYT on Trump v DeSantis:

Happy MLK Day

"I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed…

DL Open Thread Monday Jan 17th 2021

Another very successful weekend of me avoiding all "news" is in the books.  I have no earthly idea what may have happened over the last 48 hours but I can guess that "0MG! InFLaTI0N!!"  "Dems in Disarray and "Biden Presidency in Deep Trouble" stories loomed large. Fortunately none of that stuff has any real world impact.  It is all just a jolly game for DC cocktail circuit regulars.    So what is on your radar?   While you ponder that question here are some is one "Delaware" headline of note per the google news algorithms.

Is it time for liberals to go on strike against the radical centrist Democratic Party?

Look. "Angry liberals" will get blamed for the failure of the radical centrist Democratic Party anyway, so maybe it is time to earn that scorn and reprobation we are going to be getting no matter how badly centrist bomb throwers fuck shit up? Maybe it is time for all left of center Dems to quit the party or at least provide zero votes (or money) to the party or to any Dem candidate until it reigns in the centrist zealots who are committed to failure? "Liberals" have been the most loyal but most routinely ignored part of the Dem coalition. It seems to me that it is time for the party to pay a price for being in the thrall of radical centrism.

GOP to Run Out the Clock, Then Arrest the Whole Biden Admin After the Mid-Terms

It isn't a secret plot. You do not have to know how to decode subtle signs. It is right out in the open. Oh well, the wholly powerless figure-head President and pretend legislature can't do anything about it.

Kevin McCarthy Refuses Interview Request From Jan. 6 Committee

The panel said it was interested in conversations the top House Republican had with President Donald J. Trump on the day of the riot and afterward.

Really Stupid DC Bubble Dem Idiocy is Thriving in the Biden White House

Insurers Will Have to Cover 8 At-Home Virus Tests Per Month

The Biden administration announced the new guidelines as it continued to work to get coronavirus tests to people regardless of their insurance status.

FFS, just send out the goddam tests. Jesus fucking Christ! The DC Bubble bullshit artists are in full control. New complicated tax credits and unworkable bullshit will surely save us.