*Chris Hayes: 'You guys really should have done that 6 weeks ago.'

[elleng]

'THANKS,' chris.

((Interviewing Ron Clain))

[Deuxcents]

1. Yeah..a pic of his guest's face please..

All you clever DUers ..

[elleng]

2. Sorry not so clever,

just have pic of my face (in my mind.)

[Donkees]

5. Video Link:

➡️ https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/biden-chief-of-staff-on-what-needs-to-happen-to-turn-public-opinion-131347525592

Link to tweet

[badhair77]

3. I've been flipping channels and Reporter Abby on CNN

just said Biden should have talked about dividing BBB into chunks last Dec. I love the armchair quarterbacking by people who have been watching from the sidelines. (Sarcasm) Easy to do. Back to Chris Hayes. AC has a former Bush advisor on to jump in with Reporter Abby. Geesh.

[Budi]

4. That was proposed last summer when BIF was passed.

The same 6 Dems who voted NO to BIF wasted the summer arguing for both when it was clear that both would not pass together in the Senate.
Talk of passing BIF & breaking BBB into passable parts, was met with flat out No from the same 6, who continued to waste 3 months stalling progress on BBB before the approaching Jan deadline.

Those wasted summer months would have better been spent passing BIF & working out a solution for BBB, BEFORE THE DEADLINE APPROACHED.
Those months would have been useful for working on a negotiated & planned solution rather than having it dragged into 2022.


Last time Congress should rely on them for bright ideas. Not sure they actually wanted either to succeed, considering what they voted against in BIF.

Politics before people.

[PortTack]

6. Manchin is very much to blame. Leading Dems to believe he would vote for it in the end

Yet all he did was move the goal posts.

Please ignore manchin and move forward. If he votes no, then we know where we stand. DO NOT give him more power to waste our time!

[Budi]

7. My post isn't about giving Manchin a pass. He stated clearly what he would not vote for.

Yet the 6 were set on stalling out the breaking & voting on BIF alone.

The entire summer was spent bs'ing the passage of BIF, when it should have been passed & signed, thus giving those months before the Jan deadline, time to either break BBB into seperate passable parts or negotiate on it.

Fact is, they wanted neither. They didn't want BIF for their own States no more than they wanted BBB.
Clearly, judging by their NO Votes on the necessary benefits of BIF to their own constituents. All 6 voted NO, in lock step.


Geez, even Manchin voted for BIF in the Senate.

[PortTack]

8. It's my opinion...and I think he had a lot to do with it!

[Budi]

9. He certainly did. But the 6 own the bs from last summer's wasted time.

He was adament about BBB all along.
A majority of Congress knew it. Yet the 6 stalled & still voted No to the benefits of BIF for their own States.

There's more than Manchin when pointing out failiures.

By their actions, they all proved to not give 2 fks about BIF/BBB nor the States they serve.

[Moebym]

10. You're talking about the progressive caucus, right?

AOC took the opportunity after Manchin's Fox News interview to proclaim that she and her cohorts were right all along and that they had known all along that Manchin would do what he did. We wouldn't have had BIF passed either if the bills were kept together as they wanted.

In the end, they will be proven wrong, but not before they'd wasted precious time and political capital.

Infuriating.