If only he paid his bets like he talks ****…lol. I still wonder why you even engage with him seeing as he still owes you money.
I'm going to say this again the Democrats could greatly improve their standing by passing the Bipartisan infrastructure Bill right now. This should've been done months ago. That doesn't mean the Build Back Better plan shouldn't be passed but making the bipartisan Bill contingent on the Build Back Better plan is a strategic mistake and has fed into the view that the Democrats can't govern. And yes that doesn't mean letting Manchin or Sinema off the hook but the Build Back Better Bill hasn't been even been written yet while the Bipartisan Bill has already been passed by one chamber.
N.Y. Democrats Assess Losses to Republicans: ‘This Was a Shellacking’ While Eric Adams easily won the New York City mayor’s race, Republicans made inroads across New York, from bedroom communities on Long Island to City Council races in Queens and Brooklyn. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/nyregion/republican-election-results-new-york.html excerpt: New York Democrats were left reeling on Wednesday after startling electoral losses from the tip of Long Island to the shores of Lake Erie, as a re-energized Republican Party showed it could make deep inroads even in one of the country’s liberal strongholds. In suburban Nassau County, where Democrats controlled every major office before Election Day, Republicans capitalized on anemic Democratic turnout to flip the county comptroller and district attorney offices for the first time in 15 years, while also defeating the incumbent county executive. In Colonie, outside Albany, they handily won the town supervisor job for the first time in nearly two decades and were on track to wrest control of the town board from Democrats. And in New York City, where Eric Adams and his fellow Democrats easily retained control of City Hall and the City Council, Republicans were nonetheless poised to expand their presence in city government after another low-turnout election — possibly to levels not seen since Rudolph W. Giuliani was mayor. As ballot tallying continued Wednesday afternoon, an incumbent Democratic council member and likely candidate for council speaker remained improbably at risk of losing his Southern Brooklyn seat. The results for Democrats were no better on statewide ballot measures, as voters soundly rejected two constitutional amendments meant to broaden ballot access — a major national priority for the party — that Democrats had believed would sail to approval. “There’s no way to sugarcoat this: This was a shellacking on a thumping,” Steve Israel, a former New York congressman and onetime chair of the House Democratic campaign arm, said of Tuesday’s results for the party in New York and across the country. Party strategists cautioned against reading too much into the results of off-year, low-turnout elections. It is impossible to predict what the political environment or issues will look like next year, they emphasized, or what role former President Donald J. Trump may play. But the results across New York mirrored damaging outcomes for Democrats in governor’s races in Virginia, where Republicans won, and New Jersey, where they came close, and signaled that even traditional blue bastions and suburbs that leaned Democratic during Mr. Trump’s presidency were not immune to a punishing national environment. Indeed, that coalition appears to be harder to maintain without a polarizing Republican president in office.
Welcome back and just in the nick of time to **** all over the Democrats per the usual. They do deserve it this round…
That's cool. It makes sense. But at the same time the holdouts who seem to be not voting for it aren't the progressives.
This right here shows us how tone deaf the Dems really are. Last night’s shelllacking in Virginia had very little to do with those 2 bills.
just to be factually correct, it is not "losses", as Murphy won re-election in NJ on Tues. fwiw, going back to the 1980s, since Bush 41, the year after a new POTUS is elected, there are Gubernatorial elections in NJ and Va. invariably, the new POTUS party loses both Gubernatorial elections for Orange hair, he witnessed Dems (Northam and Murphy) winning both this trend was broken this year, when NJ's Dem Gov Murphy won re-election
They would do it if it gets them reelected. Alas, Dem voters expect more and Reps only live for schadenfreude from the fallout of these moves.
