Thursday, October 28, 2021
Trust
Complicating Democrats' effort to pass an infrastructure deal is trust -- the lack of it. Progressive members are frustrated with two moderates who have again and again held up passage of the bill with late-arriving objections. Senators Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema wield enormous power over the fate of the legislation because there is only a one-vote margin in the senate -- that of the Vice President. The two of them must agree on a final package for victory to occur and neither seems in a hurry to go along with Democrats' proposals. Meanwhile, the president is left frustrated and stewing in his failure to get a law to his desk. What will happen to the two Senators is anyone's guess but be assured they won't generate support from colleagues at election time. Democrats want both of them gone and replaced by more compliant legislators. The two senators seem to have missed a maxim applied to politics, "Go along to get along."
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