House Dem moderates lay out battle lines as Pelosi stands firm

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

[div class"excerpt"]Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her caucus Wednesday she would not waver from her two-pronged strategy to deliver President Joe Biden's main domestic priorities, bringing the House closer to a standoff between Democrats' leadership and their most vulnerable members.

The California Democrat reiterated in no uncertain terms during a call with members that she would only bring the Senate's bipartisan infrastructure deal to the floor after the upper chamber finishes the party's $3.5 trillion social spending package. Her approach shrugs off a growing pressure campaign from moderates, who are urging Pelosi to take up the Senate infrastructure bill more quickly so that they can sell it to voters back home.

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Those remarks -- delivered in the caucus' first gathering since the Senate passed its infrastructure bill -- boosted the confidence of progressives, who have long insisted that Pelosi would keep her vow to hold onto the Senate's bipartisan bill in order to force the completion of a broader party-line bill. But Pelosi's timetable hasn't assuaged a small group of frustrated Democratic moderates who are plotting ways to convince her and her team to change course.

At least six of those centrists say privately they are willing to block consideration of the Democrats' budget blueprint as a last-ditch move to stall the $3.5 trillion bill, according to two people familiar with the discussions. None of those Democrats would speak publicly about their plans, though they argue their influence is only growing with their party five seats away from losing the House.





Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/11/house-democrats-moderates-infrastructure-spending-503917

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DEMS IN DISARRAY???

(figured I'd get the lazy clich out of the way so we can move on to a serious discussion)

[unc70]

1. Dems in disarray

After all it is from Politico!

[brooklynite]

3. A centrist political publication.

[unc70]

4. Do you really think they skew liberal?

Not just neutral, but liberal? Really?!

[Mme. Defarge]

6. This is great! I plan to save it.

What about Newsweek?

[BumRushDaShow]

12. That is so 2017

(they have slowly been shifting to the right, at least according to the source of those charts)

[brooklynite]

13. Does the New York Times make the same story more palatable?

House Moderates Say They Won't Back Budget Vote Until Infrastructure Bill Passes

[msongs]

2. well if they worried about losing the House they better pass it now while they can nt

[Fiendish Thingy]

10. As long as they are passed this year, everyone, moderates and progressives, will be in good shape

With both bills passed and implemented by the new year, the momentum for all Dems heading into the midterms will be tremendous.

[groundloop]

5. It just seems kind of silly not taking whatever we can right now.

I honestly don't understand this strategy by Madame Speaker.

[Fiendish Thingy]

9. How well has that worked over the past 40 years?

These so-called moderates (All 5-6 of them) will sabotage the reconciliation bill at their peril.

[Shell_Seas]

7. Burn the centrists! Embrace progressives! I'm kidding. Totally kidding.

We should primary them all and push the party left.

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. They will put a statue of Pelosi in the rotunda if the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill passes

The cowardly, anonymous “moderates” are about to have a teachable moment provided by the 95 members of the Progressive Caucus, who know that repairing some potholes and bridges is not as strong a case for re-election as all those repairs plus child tax credits, free pre-K, free community college, broadband in rural areas, and thousands of good paying jobs helping to create a livable planet for our kids, while making Jeff Bezos sell his rocket ships to pay his fair share of taxes.

[Grins]

11. "I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat." - Will Rogers, still right.

And we keep hitting ourselves in the face.