Virginia Sen. Kaine: "Congressional Democrats hurt Terry McAuliffe"

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71. ruminate away, why get shy now

If only I could just ruminate about you and your motives, but I can’t.

Classic malicious innuendo. That deffo is a not-so-veiled smear attempt.

Come on, back it up. You just personally attacked me, at least have the courage of your convictions and lay out your case.

There not a damn thing unclear or untoward about any of my responses to you.

You are trying to imply that a person (in this case me) who has the temerity to disagree with your positings and stances is somehow therefore suspect and likely in possession of some sort of nefarious agenda.

You are not the only one who takes this angle of attack. It is meant to put people who disagree with you on the defensive, to try and force a verbal kowtow, to stifle dissent from what you and a few others think should be the dominant party line.

There is not just two senators holding up Biden’s agenda.

That is completely flipping reality on its head. The people who are insisting on not giving up leverage (including Pelosi, Schumer and Biden himself, all who have said so for months now) are doing so because they want BIDEN's version of the BBB passed as intact as is possible.

Manchin and Sinema have already gutted out a cumulative $3.8 trillion (and apparently possibly more given Manchin's new demand vis-à-vis hearing aids today) from the two initial Biden proposals: $2.6 trillion in new spend and tax incentives for the BIF now slashed by almost 80% to just $550 billion by them and the so-called 'moderate' Rethugs they are so fond of insisting need to be catered to, AND his $3.5 trillion BBB Act proposal, which has now been slashed in half, to $1.75 trillion, including entire centrepiece programmes that were are are central to his agenda and campaign promises.


Bottom line

I absolutely believe that if we followed your advice of decoupling on these two bills it will end with a far worse outcome than if we keep them linked.