The Virginia race should be a wakeup call for all congressional Democrats with
one simple message: Pass stalled bills that get America moving forward.
Extract from this BBC
story headline (with my emphasis for the blog format):
“Key
takeaways from a bad night for Joe Biden”
At the very least, the
VA gubernatorial race should prompt House and Senate Democrats to vote on
Biden's trillion-dollar infrastructure package so the president can sign it into
law and start touting the accomplishment.
Whether it also leads the
party to reach an agreement on the larger spending package - that includes
funding for healthcare, climate investments, and early child education - or go
back to the drawing board to overcome centrist objections about the costs remains
to be seen.
The party needs to agree on something, and the clock is ticking.
It's been just 10 months since Trump supporters stormed the National Capitol in a last-ditch attempt to block congressional certification of Joe
Biden's presidential victory.
In the days that followed, there was more than a little talk about whether the chaos and violence of the day had mortally wounded the Republican brand.
Some GOP leaders distanced themselves from the former
president, and others began considering whether the Republican move toward
Trump's style of economic and cultural populism was too dangerous a game.
As it turns out voters, those still tied to Trump Republicans, either have a short memory, or they don't hold the Republican Party itself responsible for the January 6 violence. Instead, politics has been tracking a familiar pattern.
A new president is elected with congressional majorities. After early popularity, his attempts to pass a political agenda run into political headwinds.
The out-of-power party (GOP), stung by recent defeat and angered
by their opponents' governing actions, become unified in their opposition,
while the in-power party (DEMS) struggles with internal divisions. Their voters grow
frustrated over the lack of immediate success and their enthusiasm ebbs.
When the first new elections roll around, the out-of-power party (GOP) shows surprising strength.
It's a dynamic that played itself out early in
the presidencies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, and during
George W. Bush's second term (once the political salience of 9/11 had faded a
bit).
Congress has been, and continues to be, a sharply polarized,
showing a closely divided nation politically. There are no permanent governing
majorities, and fortunes ebb and flow with the fickle nature of the electorate.
My 2 Cents: Senators Joe
Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten
Sinema (D-AZ) in a word need to start acting like national
Democrats instead of two spoiled brats against President Biden's big, but sorely needed agenda items.
Those two need to wake up and serve the nation as a whole and stop with their narrow-minded selfish ways we have seen recently.
Democrats won it all in
2020 and the voters sent them into office with simple message: Stop the GOP and
do some good for the nation.
Sadly that ain’t happening – mainly due to GOP road blocking at every turn – and that is on the scale the country does not need in these very troubling pandemic times.
The public trusts the DEMS to serve the national good and all the people, again which the GOP always falls short in doing except for their narrow top bracket favors. That is both a political and historical fact.
DEMS won the W/H and both
Houses of Congress and that is not a small feat in recent years, thus that shows
the public’s will for movement not more division and stalemate politics.
So, the DEMS had better
pay close attention and work harder to get things done, otherwise they will get thrown back in the minority to watch from the outside with the GOP back in charge, and my friends, won’t be very pretty.
Now, and especially for Senators
Manchin and Sinema, I truly hope you read this post and then fall in line with all the rest of the Democrats and thus, for the nation, too. It’s the right
thing to do.
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