{"id":42268,"date":"2021-06-03T12:21:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T16:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42268"},"modified":"2021-06-03T12:21:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T16:21:14","slug":"when-your-power-grab-gets-slowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42268","title":{"rendered":"When Your Power Grab Gets Slowed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday National Review<\/a> posted an article about a recent ruling by the Senate parliamentarian that will put a crimp in the plans of Democrats to use the reconciliation process to pass their radical agenda without Republican support.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The Senate parliamentarian issued a new ruling that would effectively allow Democrats to use automatic budget reconciliation<\/a> just one more time this year to bypass Republicans to advance President Biden\u2019s progressive agenda.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that a revision to the 2021 budget resolution cannot be automatically discharged from the Senate Budget Committee, according to The Hill<\/a>. <\/i>This means that Democrats would need at least one Republican on the 11-11 panel to vote with them if they want to use reconciliation on more than one occasion before the legislative session ends in October.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The bi-partisan talk during the presidential campaign was simply talk. There never was any plan to work with Republicans unless the Republicans agreed to everything the Democrats wanted. To Democrats the definition of unity is “when everyone agrees with me.”<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

The ruling makes it more likely that Democrats will pursue a fresh fiscal 2022 budget to bypass Republicans if infrastructure negotiations fail, according to Bloomberg.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The news comes as Biden said on Tuesday that June \u201cshould be a month of action on Capitol Hill\u201d and\u00a0that while pundits on TV may ask why he has not done more to pass his legislative priorities\u00a0that it is because he \u201conly has a majority of effectively four votes in the house and a tie in the Senate with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends,\u201d likely referring to Senators Joe Manchin (D., W. Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.).<\/strong><\/p>\n

During a press briefing on Wednesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki attempted to rewrite Biden\u2019s remarks, claiming that the president\u00a0was only commenting on TV punditry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI can tell you that sometimes these conversations can be oversimplified. TV isn\u2019t always made for complex conversations about policymaking,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat the president was simply conveying was that his threshold, his litmus test is not to see eye-to-eye on every single detail of every issue and he doesn\u2019t with Senator Sinema and Senator Manchin.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHe believes there\u2019s an opportunity to work together to make progress to find areas of common ground even if you have areas of disagreement,\u201d Psaki said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, Republicans have criticized Biden and his party for doing little to work with the GOP to find common ground. Democrats used budget reconciliation earlier this year to pass the president\u2019s COVID-19 response package with a simple majority and without Republican support.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHe knows well having served 36 years in the Senate that sometimes it\u2019s not a straight line to victory or success, sometimes it takes more time and he\u2019s open to many paths forward,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t think he was intending to convey anything more than a little bit of commentary on TV punditry.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keep your eye on the filibuster. If the filibuster survives, we may get through the Biden administration without bankrupting the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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