The Hill is reporting, Pelosi: Vote on spending bill ‘hopefully will take place this afternoon’: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday said a vote on the Democrats’ social spending and climate package “hopefully will take place this afternoon.” [Most likely late this evening.] The timeline is ambitious. House Democrats had suggested the vote on the … Read more
Update to Inflationary Psychology and GQP Fear Mongering Over Inflation. The corporate media is complicit in creating an inflation panic that can become a self-fulfilling outcome as a result of panic. It is reckless and irresponsible reporting. Fortunately, there are some more responsible reporters who are pushing back against this GQP fear mongering over inflation, … Read more
Above Graphic: h/t CrooksAndLiars.com. The Associated Press reports, Sinema’s shift: ‘Prada socialist’ to corporate donor magnet: Twenty years ago, a Green Party activist running for the Phoenix City Council named Kyrsten Sinema likened raising campaign cash to “bribery.” Now a first-term senator from Arizona, she no longer has such qualms. Once a self-styled “Prada socialist” … Read more
“The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” – Oscar Wilde. Senator Joe Manchin is a cynical self-interested politician. He is trying to preserve his federal coal subsidies which make him wealthy, while at the same time denying American families, in particular America’s children, the basic assistance they need. And he … Read more
On a historic day for the American People and the United States, President Joe Biden, flanked by 800 guests of both major political parties, signed the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. As many Democrats have remarked: infrastructure week has finally come. Joe Biden is the master of the art of the deal. The Bipartisan Infrastructure … Read more