He thought he could get a Social Spending Bill…
Climate Bill….
And a Voting Bill?
But?
It don’t look good……
For much of anything Manchin and Sinema want….
Democrats now have to find a way forward…
And mostly divorce that effort from parties left…..
Democrats NEED engage and win over the swing , middle voters for the fall…
Progressives OWN their voters…..
Biden needs to sell what he HAS done in the last year….
“I don’t think any of us are expecting anything else to pass,” said Colin Strother, a Democratic operative and veteran of House campaigns in Texas. Strother said the party in Washington has “underwhelmed, underachieved and undersold” it’s successes so far. “It has left our opponents emboldened, or supporters dejected and our prospects for 2022 dim if not dark. So we have a lot of work to do to dig out of this … We better have some golden fuckin’ shovels.”
Democrats gambled that the public would reward them for moving quickly on the Build Back Better agenda. Many individual items enjoy strong support from the public, including proposals to slash health insurance premiums and extend an ambitious expansion of the child tax credit, which was already being framed as a tax cut for the middle class. Perhaps the most potent element, people close to the White House argue, would be Democrats’ ability to torch Republicans for shielding corporations from paying higher taxes to help fund the plans.
But their ambitions came to an abrupt skid late last year, when Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced he couldn’t support the latest iteration of the bill. With the legislation faltering and the White House pivoting to voting rights, campaigns are sketching out narrative arcs around their earlier achievements and how Republicans thwarted more progress. Stan Greenberg, the veteran Democratic pollster, stressed that losing the major bill could significantly increase the difficulty for Biden’s party in an already challenging political environment.
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“We need to be working on Plan B right now and Plan B would be what do we do if the Build Back Better falls apart completely,” said Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pa.), who represents a battleground district and is urging Democrats to focus on legislation that could emerge from the larger package, mentioning health care and home health care as starting points. “I don’t want to see us get into a situation where we are trying to advance individual bills that, quite frankly, don’t have any chance of success. That’s the same thing as knocking your head against the wall.”
Democrats overseeing House races across the country said while officials would continue to tout their push for Build Back Better in the short term, they expected to soon transition more fully to a focus on what they’ve delivered. They plan to lean into the passage of a massive infrastructure bill and the Covid-relief package, framing it as helping rescue the economy from the depths of the pandemic.
“We have to take this administration’s accomplishment and make sure the American people see, hear and feel them. We can’t dwell on what we haven’t gotten done,” said Bradley Beychok, co-founder and a senior adviser to the Democratic super PAC American Bridge. “If we do, we’re going to have a very tough midterms.”….
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“There’s plenty of accomplishments to talk about,” he said. “From a congressional perspective in particular, we need to have an economic argument to the voters that says we have made a difference and that we can make a difference in their lives….
Note…
This IS a very OLD and tried thing for Democrats who tend to try and entertain the parties progressives who reach for things that do NOT play outside their world and cost’s moderate and swing district Democrats votes…
Biden hitched his wagon to the left with dreams of a FDR effort….
THAT was nothing but a pipe dream…..
Note….
The stripped down left over’s will be added to the Government’s Feb. government spending legislation deadline effort…
image….The Hill