Francesca and Caroline Johnson of The Damage Report tell us about “Calgary” Cruz trying to trip up law professors on Texas’s racist voter ID law, partly by trying to put words in their mouths...typical...
...and speaking of ways to “disadvantage” people of color, David Doel tells us about the recent UN speech by Mia Motley, the Prime Minister of Barbados, taking that governing body to task on a whole host of issues including the climate and COVID-19 crises... and yeah, it looks on the surface as if the U.S. supports the so-called TRIPS waiver on producing the COVID vaccine for poorer countries, but upon further review, apparently not...
...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ tells us about former FedEx driver Vincent Paterno, who apparently didn’t want to make deliveries to Democrats...fortunately for this asshat, employers are hiring all over the place, so he’ll probably find something if he hasn’t already (mildly NSFW/H)...
...and if ever there was a reason to join The Young Turks, it’s because of videos like this, where Ana and Cenk pretty much rip the mask off our thoroughly bought-and-paid-for corporate media on the “Manchin machinations” along with those of “Curtsy Kyrsten” on Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan..and to be honest, I’m starting to wonder if it will EVER see the light of day...Biden and that useless meat sack Schumer might as well tell Manchin and Sinema to make it official and become Republicans at this point, and yeah, that would kill any future piece of legislation, but that’s just about where we are anyway (and as far as Sinema is concerned, this sure fits, doesn’t it?)...
Update: Cenk and Ana took "the old gray lady" to task in the prior clip, and Will Bunch also does so here.
Update 1 9/29/21: Might be worth it to remind everybody what a Friedman Unit is after this.
Update 2 9/29/21: I honestly thought I’d stumbled across Fix Noise when I read this from the Times today (still more about the never-ending Congressional negotiations over “Build Back Better,” the infrastructure bill, or both, or whatever the hell they’re called at this point...and of course the article is behind the pay wall)...
Mr. Biden has thus far failed to convince Ms. Sinema and Mr. Manchin to agree publicly to a framework for how much they are willing to spend and what taxes they are willing to raise to fund the more expansive bill. If Mr. Biden cannot find a way to address their concerns, while also assuaging progressives and persuading them to support his infrastructure bill, he could see the warring factions in his party kill his entire economic agenda in the span of a few days.Hey, @jimtankersley, how much do you get paid to write total, unmitigated horseshit like this?
There is no “warring” progressive faction in the negotiation. Actually, if anything, progressives have been the ones trying to “move the needle” while alleged sensible (cough) centrists (cough) like (cough, cough) Manchin and “Curtsy Kyrsten” (cough) are saying “no, no, no” to the $3.5 trillion dollar plan spent over 10 years without an alternative. And that’s because Manchin and Sinema’s funders want the entire $3.5 trillion bill to die, even though it’s hugely popular (maybe those two factors are related? Maybe you should report on that instead?).
Here’s a link to Jonathan Chait, who, unlike you, actually knows the issue. And by the way, nice job to “disappear” in the Times once more anything whatsoever to do with U.S. Senate Republican obstruction.
(@tyt)
Update 3 9/29/21: Even though it would be self-defeating to a degree (it's getting to the point where ALL OF THIS is self-defeating), I think Josh Marshall makes a lot of sense here; Sinema's bundlers are clearly counting on the smaller infrastructure bill and not the $3.5 trillion BBB one. So, if there's any question at all about either passing, pass nothing instead.
Update 9/30/21: At the moment, FWIW, I’m reading this great book about the 2008 economic meltdown, and there’s a whole chapter about the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, which was targeted for corporations of course largely at taxpayer expense. What was supposed to happen was that, in response to the “banksters” getting bailed out, homeowners who were “under water” (e.g., the value of their property was less than their mortgage) were supposed to get help through the Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP. Well, this article explains why HAMP failed (basically, because the terms of refinancing were left up to the mortgage servicers and not the borrowers, among other issues).
This whole discussion about the somewhat slimmed down infrastructure bill (to help corporations) and the $3.5-trillion-over-10-years “Build Back Better” bill (to help everyone else and this country overall) reminded me of something, and I couldn’t think of what it was. I’m pretty sure it was the TARP/HAMP discussion noted above.
Well, TARP worked and HAMP didn’t. So, instead of the smaller bill working and the BBB bill not working, don’t pass either of the two latter bills. The last thing we need is TARP vs. HAMP 2.0.
Update 10/2/21: This is even more of a reason to kill both bills if we can't get the $3.5 trillion BBB bill passed.
...and on the subject of useless, thoroughly co-opted Democrats, this tells us that U.S. House Rep Kathleen Rice is facing the proverbial music from her constituents on her vote against allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices (and that goes for Scott Peters and Kurt Schrader also as noted here...apparently Schrader is a long-time offender in that category)...
...and Miles Davis died 30 years ago today.
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