Bill Sher has a message for the hillbilly coal baron from West Virginia: Manchin, You Won. Now Give Biden a Win, Too. For one of the first fights between Al and Peg Bundy on the farcical sitcom Married … With Children, Peg belts out a song Al hates, the sappy “Honey” by Bobby Goldsboro. Al … Read more
Trump Fluffer Lyin’ Lindsey Graham requested the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to score the Democrats’ Build Back Better Budget Reconciliation bill – correction, he requested the CBO to score a fictional version of the bill which is not the bill advanced by Democrats. I’m not sure why the CBO went along with his bad faith, … Read more
Democratic Leadership has set Christmas as the deadline for passing the Build Back Better reconciliation bill, which would have been done in September but for the selfish antics of two prima donna Democratic divas, Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. The Progressive Caucus agreed to support their “precious,” the bipartisan Senate infrastructure bill, in good … Read more
One of the public intellectuals (though I suspect Chuck might scoff a bit at that label) whom I admire greatly these days is Mr. Chuck Marohn. I have a great deal of appreciation for his counter-to-conventional-wisdom insights into the many mistakes America has made in building our infrastructure, planning our urban development, and financing our … Read more
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