A master politician Biden is:

it strikes me, a big dummy, that the white house is doing a great job constructing its big plans to have wide appeal to *voters* rather than *politicians*. it seems like a clever strategy to let the weight of the electorate push congress into doing stuff the white house wants

— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) April 1, 2021

this has the ancillary benefit of zapping arguments like “well, I don’t want to reform the filibuster” because voters most definitely don’t care about that, but they will 100 percent call your office angrily asking why you’re keeping roads from being built in their town

— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) April 1, 2021