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WHITT

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4. Not To Mention

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Original post)

Tue Aug 24, 2021, 11:37 AM

Aug 2021

During an interview, Rep. Gottheimer slipped and said something like we shouldn't be raising taxes during a recovery, referencing the reconciliation bill, but the only tax increases in that bill are on millionaires and billionaires, which he and his cohorts are protecting.

Conversely, the Repub corporate bill that he and his cohorts support, raises taxes in the form of fees and tolls on working people, amounting to tens of billions of dollars.

This comes down to whose side is your congressional representative on?

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9 Blue Dogs stall infrastructure; CPC: 95 can play that game [View all] Fiendish Thingy Aug 2021 OP

They want to play hardball....... Historic NY Aug 2021 #1

Finger crossed on this, hoping these recalcitrant centrists... brush Aug 2021 #2

Blue dogs are indeed the most at-risk seats. FBaggins Aug 2021 #3

Their majority qazplm135 Aug 2021 #7

It isn't a Yugo against a tractor trailer FBaggins Aug 2021 #9

Sure it is qazplm135 Aug 2021 #12

And yet... the Yugo just won FBaggins Aug 2021 #14

Won what? qazplm135 Aug 2021 #15

The game of "political chicken" with the tractor trailer FBaggins Aug 2021 #16

That wasn't the plan qazplm135 Aug 2021 #17

Well Said, Sir The Magistrate Aug 2021 #18

I'm not going that far. qazplm135 Aug 2021 #19

I Agree Both Sides Need One Another, Sir The Magistrate Aug 2021 #20

Willing won't matter qazplm135 Aug 2021 #21

That is not true. Demsrule86 Aug 2021 #22

And we need the progressives for the majority qazplm135 Aug 2021 #29

Not To Mention WHITT Aug 2021 #4

The deal will get done Johnny2X2X Aug 2021 #5

With friends like this who needs enemies Bear Creek Aug 2021 #6

Sinema is frustrating Mad_Machine76 Aug 2021 #8

With friends like these, who needs Sinema? lagomorph777 Aug 2021 #26

I hope all their seats turn blue because the Big Bill is VERY POPULAR librechik Aug 2021 #10

"Blue Dogs?" I thought their new name was neoliberal and or moderate? ShazamIam Aug 2021 #11

Neoliberal is a descriptor specific to economic policy. This group is also known as Problem Solvers Fiendish Thingy Aug 2021 #13

We lose the majority without them and get nothing. Demsrule86 Aug 2021 #24

Yes, conservative on economis, to me neoliberasl are only liberal on things like LGBQT, ShazamIam Aug 2021 #31

Blue dogs is an insulting term and very old. Demsrule86 Aug 2021 #23

I like the term coined by, I think Greg Sargent: Sabotage Squad Fiendish Thingy Aug 2021 #25

I like both of those names. lagomorph777 Aug 2021 #27

The entire points of being a centrist is so you can win in red or purple district. This is going Demsrule86 Aug 2021 #28

The *only* reason to pass bipartisan bill first is to sabotage the reconciliation bill Fiendish Thingy Aug 2021 #30

I disagree but don't want to argue. ShazamIam Aug 2021 #32