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Bernie Sanders Says No Reconciliation Bill, Then No Infrastructure Deal.
Let’s just hope he sticks to it.
After months of waiting, Biden’s proposed “bipartisan” infrastructure bill with the GOP and conservative democrats was as lack luster as many of us on the left expected it to be. Frankly, it was even worse. When a Senator from Biden’s own home state of Delaware announced they were working on an $800 billon compromise to the $2.2 trillion that Biden originally laid out, needless to say it was a pretty dismal sign of what was to come and the size of the bill that was actually supported by the President. Of course, we didn’t even get the $800 billion and instead, Biden and his group of Senators pranced in front of the cameras to announce they had reached a tentative deal that amounted to less than $600 billion in new spending.
As syndicated journalist and former top Bernie Sanders advisor David Sirota pointed out:
“If this was a dark-comedy apocalypse film and this was the crew trotted out promising to save the world, the movie audience would laugh”
I mean, he’s not wrong.
AlL that aside, it didn’t take long for
