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What's been going on in the

artappraiser — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 05:09:16 +0000

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What's been going on in the Senate the last couple hours from Shahil Kapur. Mitch wants to go to bed, they vote no 50-49, fuck u grampa, they're gonna go all night, MORE

ELEVEN HOURS LATER: The Senate has yet to call the minimum wage vote as Democrats ready their new jobless benefit amendment for prime time.

The chamber is mostly empty. pic.twitter.com/IgCmKRyaet
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 6, 2021

And 11 hours and 50 minutes later, the Senate finishes the vote on the first amendment to the Covid relief bill.

"Voting will resume shortly," @SenSchumer says. "Now that this agreement has reached we are going to power through the rest of this process and get this bill done."
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 6, 2021

McConnell mocks Democrats for their internal divisions that forced this delay. "What this proves is there are benefits to bipartisanship," he says. As majority leader, McConnell pursued partisan votes (unsuccessfully) for ACA repeal and (successfully) on a major tax overhaul.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 6, 2021

McConnell calls for the Senate to adjourn until 10 am tomorrow. The chamber is voting on it now.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 6, 2021

And the Senate votes 50-49 to reject McConnell's motion to adjourn the chamber.

They're gonna go all night.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 6, 2021

How one Senate Dem aide expects this to play out:

Portman is offering his amendment to slash jobless benefits and it will PASS.

Then Dems will pass the deal they cut with Manchin to supersede that amendment.

(Again, per this source.)

A way to maneuver around this landmine.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 6, 2021

Joe Manchin has voted for Portman's amendment so it is indeed on track to pass.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 6, 2021

Sinema, on the other hand, is voting with Dems to kill the Portman amendment that curtails jobless benefits.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 6, 2021

BTW, as I stated on this

artappraiser — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 21:49:59 +0000

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BTW, as I stated on this thread, I do think this was his part of plan, I think he already expected the minimum wage thing wasn't going to work out when he made this video, it's why he made it

BIDEN SPEAKING ON THE RIGHT TO UNIONIZE

especially as I am sure he knows that just Amazon workers alone having a union would make a huge difference pronto and that the effect would spread!

"Progressive" group Justice

artappraiser — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 21:43:15 +0000

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"Progressive" group Justice Dems doing the "cancel the Biden wing" thing:

A statement of position, or pledge to fight for a policy goal, is not a “campaign promise” which becomes broken when others in Congress don’t agree with you. https://t.co/LZMRWzLaZr
— Bill Scher (@billscher) March 5, 2021

Eh, it's just playing to their choir.

Senate quickly losing all

artappraiser — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 21:08:06 +0000

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Senate quickly losing all semblance of the grownup chamber it was intended to be, Sinema doing House-style performance art, role play/antics to emphasize culture wars

She’s decided she’s going to be a media darling as Marie Antoinette of the establishment. Dress in a super fun way, do performatively hip thumbs downs as she votes to kill higher wages & now rub it in with symbolic cake we can all eat instead of higher salaries. #CorporateTool https://t.co/IvbzF7NfOj
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) March 5, 2021

Kyrsten Sinema flippantly tried and failed to emulate John McCain.

Instead she ended up with a sort of Sarah Palin meets Marie Antoinette energy.
— Shari Lynn (@LynnSharig8) March 5, 2021

Strong Marie Antoinette energy. https://t.co/tGORPD6Ido
— Dwight Rhinosoros (@rhinosoros) March 5, 2021

Note that the "Official New York Socialist" basically loves him some of this, chomping at the bit to play.

Senate at standstill with

artappraiser — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 20:22:44 +0000

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Senate at standstill with Manchin surprise:

The Manchin surprise:

- Dems fear he'll back the GOP plan to pare back jobless benefits
- GOP working to line up support from all 50 members
- Dems working to get him to back WH-Dem deal
- Manchin concerned about $10,200 in tax-free jobless benefits
- Senate in a standstill pic.twitter.com/dTUo66IKer
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 5, 2021

the future is starting to

artappraiser — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 20:41:14 +0000

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the future is starting to look bright if we pass it, who'd a thunk it

A year-long pandemic leading to higher long-run economic output is the best evidence that the future is in fact a policy choice. https://t.co/nVKaFZ2A4F
— Conor Sen (@conorsen) March 3, 2021

Ezra's wonk brain really

artappraiser — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 20:38:23 +0000

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Ezra's wonk brain really working overtime today, wish I knew what he had for breakfast:

That reflects their base — while the Rescue Act won't get a single Republican vote in Congress, it has huge support among actual Republicans. When asked if it should be abandoned for a smaller, bipartisan bill, half of Republicans say no! https://t.co/jnhP4l5Mn0
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) March 4, 2021

Krugman's 7 tweets to the

artappraiser — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 19:52:20 +0000

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Krugman's 6 tweets to the faithful warning about perfect being enemy of the good, stop nitpicking and move:

As the Senate begins debate on the Biden relief bill, let me remind everyone of three crucial facts:

1. The bill is imperfect — because all legislation is imperfect

2. Nonetheless, it's very, very good

3. The clock is ticking 1/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 4, 2021

On (1), sure, you can argue that some aid recipients don't need the money as badly as others. An idealized bill would target aid more accurately on families, local governments etc hurt worst by the pandemic. But so what? 2/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 4, 2021

The great bulk of the proposed outlays will go to extremely worthy causes — shots in arms, reopened schools, sustaining the unemployed, avoiding cuts in crucial services, and more. Compared with real-world bills of the past, this one is amazingly good 3/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 4, 2021

And it must be done fast. If it doesn't happen literally within days, some unemployed workers will be cut off. Beyond that, anyone awake in 2009 knows that political momentum, once lost, is very hard to regain. 4/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 4, 2021

So for good-faith critics of the details: OK, you've been heard. If some of the problems you've predicted, like inflationary heating, come true — I don't think so, but they might — your prescience will be duly acknowledged 5/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 4, 2021

But this thing isn't going back to the drawing board. The choice now is to pass it, imperfections and all, or have the whole effort to rescue the economy crash and burn. Please, let's just get this done 6/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 4, 2021

and a good reminder in reply to him:

And remember this bill has huge BIPARTISAN support from every around the country except DC republicans. They don't want it to work because they know it's going to help a lot of people who are hurting and that's not going to help their 2022 campaign agenda. Not one bit.
— Conor Sheridan - Wear a mask. (@conorfsheridan) March 4, 2021

Sen. Johnson says he's

artappraiser — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:59:58 +0000

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Sen. Johnson says he's setting up shifts to make sure Senate Republicans force a ton of amendment votes on covid bill

“The better way of putting it is making sure that all amendments offered are all voted on."
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) March 4, 2021

OMG, Trump has issued this

artappraiser — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:53:31 +0000

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OMG, Trump has issued this statement. He really has it out for Mitch, timed to hurt:

TRUMP: “To set the record straight, there were two reasons the Senate races were lost in Georgia. ...

“Senator Mitch McConnell’s refusal to go above $600 per person on the stimulus check payments when the two Democrat opponents were touting $2,000 per person in ad after ad.” pic.twitter.com/AwsygaXuLd
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) March 4, 2021