re: #181 Belafon

The annoying thing about this is that it’s going to make the progressive part of the Democrats into the bad guys rather than the moderates/conservatives who won’t work with the rest of the party.

Excuse me — the progressives are the bad guys. They are a large part of the party but they are not the majority. They had 2 candidates for president (and I supported Warren) but either one would have lost in a landslide to Trump. I like Jayapal and consider myself a progressive, but I am old and a realist based on many years of life lived. Given the situation in the Senate and the razor thin margin in the House, it’s going to take more time to get the large infrastructure bill in a form that it can pass through reconciliation. If the Jayapal caucus doesn’t cooperate, they will merit all the censure directed toward them and they will be the ones responsible for the end of the Biden administration.

If Biden were working with the majorities that Obama had in his first term, it would be very different, but he isn’t.