The media lets Joe Manchin get away with his “Aw shucks, I’m just a simple country bumpkin” shtick all the time. This prima donna diva is calculating and conniving, don’t kid yourself. He didn’t get to be a wealthy coal baron otherwise. Manchin likes to tell the lazy media villagers that “if we all negotiate … Read more
David Sirota has a plan: stop playing the game of these obstructionist saboteurs, prima donna divas Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, and add more money to the budget reconciliation bill for Arizona and West Virginia, then dare them to vote no against bulked up benefits for the voters of their states. It’s so audacious, it … Read more
With only two weeks to go before the Halloween self-imposed deadline for Democrats to pass the budget reconciliation bill, and calls from every corner of the Democratic Party for the prima donna divas Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to explain themselves (“What do you want?“), one would think these divas would finally be sitting down … Read more
According to a new Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll: Initially, 83% of the public say they favor allowing the federal government to negotiate with drug companies to lower drug prices on behalf of people enrolled in Medicare beneficiaries and private plans. This includes 91% of Democrats, 85% of independents, and 76% of Republicans, as … Read more
Update to Child Tax Credit Payments Begin Today – Thank A Democrat: Today (July 15), families across the country will see the first payments from the Child Tax Credit expansion enacted in the American Rescue Plan – $3,600/year for kids under 6 and $3,000/year for kids over 6. Unlike the 2017 Trump tax cuts for … Read more