Jennifer Rubin's on board with Biden's positive spin:

Progressives are being steamrolled by Biden & Pelosi? Figuring their reticence is all "for show"?

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Biden's White House could see reality basically from the getgo. I would say: if "progressives" want more power, they need to work to get more Bernie Sanders types in the Senate, which means quitting with the culture wars crap and the "defund police" crap and then maybe that's possible. You don't do that by making whypipple swallow Woke theory, Bernie doesn't! He famously stays away from most racial woke messaging. Meanwhile, until you can accomplish this, you don't bitch about and badmouth Dems who manage to get elected to the Senate in a conservative state like West Virginia, they are all you've got.

You always claim everyone you supported won, so you must have supported Biden. Where o where did you get the impression he was a "progressive"? He never ever said he was, he said he was into bi-partisanship. He said it again here, I guess I have to post this again hoping you'll clean the wax out of your ears, where he says that's consensus and that's what I ran on

The Progressive caucus IS A SMALL minority of Democrats. Most Democrats clearly wanted to do what he president wanted. NO THEY ARE NOT DOING WHAT BIDEN WANTED, NOT AT ALL. Again, a repeat:

Therefore, what went on is that a small minority is holding back what the majority of the party, the President and the Speaker wanted to do. Again, the whole caucus drowned them out with cheers of "vote!

You wouldn't like it if the GOP was doing this,not at all.

Furthermore the FDR thing you posted was just more proof of your stupidity. Like PP implied, if you want to do what FDR did, you have to have a large majority in Congress. You don't have that, instead you lost seats in the house because "progressives" were shouting "Defund the police" and "socialism!" according to Jim Clyburn who told them to shut the fuck up lest they help lose the two Senate seats in Georgia as well.

If this progressive trick goes bad, it will be more of the same old same old purity game that is against everything Biden has ever believed in. Heck, even Bernie doesn't do too much of the purity thing, though many of his fans think it's a cool thing to do, be a small, select group that specializes in turning majorities off and losing elections.

So the way I see what went down:

• The Biden White House worked real hard to work out a deal with THE SENATE THEY HAVE NOT THE SENATE THEY WISH THEY HAD, asking progressive House members to negotiate down their requests in order to make a deal.
• Biden announced the deal  Saying everyone had to compromise and didn't get all they wanted, including him.
• And at the same time he and Pelosi asked for a vote on the Infrastructure plan in time for his G-20 summit, to present as proof of progress rather than gridlock. Which they knew they had the votes for, including Republican ones. Because the 2,000+ page reconciliation bill was not ready for review in time for the summit. The big House Democratic caucus cheered "Vote!"
• Pelosi insisted that the Progressive Caucus should trust the president that he will make sure what they bargained for will be in the reconciliation bill. Several indicated that they did not trust that would happen and would vote the Infrastructure plan down until the reconciliation bill was ready to vote on. She went to their Caucus meeting and was refused entry.
• A 2,000+ page copy of the bill was rushed/dumped.
• They did not trust Biden to protect what they bargained for, they want to hold the Infrastructure bill hostage until both are ready to be voted on together.
• Therefore it's likely nothing will be accomplished until Dec., and no results from whatever is passed will start being seen until well into next year.

Sounds like a parliamentary system of 3 parties to me!

• The Democratic party with a very slim and tenuous majority and an Executive in office, 
• the Progressive party that often as not doesn't agree with them because they think the Democrats are neo-liberal globalist capitalists in the pocket of big money,
• and the Republican party which must unhappily fake being unified in protecting the delusions of a lunatic and criminal most never wanted as president but have to pander to because his culture warring for narcissistic gain is popular with their base (Which they brought on themselves since the days of the Tea Party: chickens come home to roost!)

Europeans and others with parliamentary systems should totally understand this predicament?! They just won't be working under any delusion that the U.S. is any more capable than they are, that's all?