Pass the bill
https://digbysblog.net/2022/08/03/pass-the-bill/
Pass the bill
Published by digby on August 3, 2022
Nothing is more important
Amid worsening economic numbers and President Bidens lowest approval rating to date a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll suggests that Democrats best chance for a boost before Novembers pivotal midterm elections would be to pass the climate change, tax and prescription drug bill that Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a key Democratic centrist, finally agreed to support last week.
The survey of 1,557 U.S. adults, which was conducted from July 28 to Aug. 1, found that Americans favor by wide margins each major component of the sweeping reconciliation deal that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer negotiated with Manchin.
When told, for instance, that Democrats in the U.S. Senate just put forward a surprise $369 billion climate and energy package that promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, nearly half of Americans (47%) say they favor it, while less than a third (30%) say theyre opposed.
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At a time of bitter polarization, these are strikingly positive results for any bill explicitly associated with one party and not the other. Independents support each element of the Manchin-Schumer deal by the same wide margins as Americans overall and even a plurality of Republicans favor (47%) rather than oppose (27%) its prescription-drug reforms.
Between this and abortion rights and January 6th and Donald Trump and his batshit crazies, the Dems have a chance.