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Including some members of the squad who said that they were not prepared to vote yes on the infrastructure bill on september 27th unless reconciliation is that a good place. that is a key dynamic your, chris, that the moderates got the concession they want to speed up the timeline but at the end of the day progressive still hold leverage in terms of shaping this. and that is ultimately the play. it s all about leverage to shape the reconciliation bill, the infrastructure bill is hanging, the progressives have more leverage if the infrastructure bill is done and dusted, past, and the moderates get to call the plays and potentially shrink or block this thing entirely. that is why this is so delicate in the political sense, i was going back to approval ratings, donna edwards, of trump and he hits his low and december that first year when aca appeals failed twice and then they re trying to pass the big tax bill, and it s not very popular. but crucially once they pass it and signed it his ....
Maybe it was a play for headlines. it wasn t a play that would actually ever see fruition. there s nothing settled yet. this is a complicated thing they re trying to pull off. they have these two tracks, bipartisan infrastructure deal worked out in the senate, the reconciliation bill with the large are biden agenda that has climate and a ton of stuff. trying to do both. they have a thin majority in the senate. what i thought was interesting, as someone who covered this for 15 years now, it does seem like that caucus, the moderate, so-called moderatemoderates, ce are holding fewer cards or the weight has shifted. what do you think? that s absolutely true. i think back to 2009 and 2010 when i started covering congress, it was the moderate blue dot coalition that called the shots. they extracted serious scalps on ....
Success is popular, particularly within your own party, and i really do think that the big political objective of the democrats is do what you can to make sure joe biden is successful. that may sound like overly reductive, but it is just a narrow analytical sense, i feel like it is the truth. that is exactly what the play is. what is really interesting here is that if democrats really can get this done in the early fall, that means that all democrats and the president are able to run on this victory for a full year going into the november elections. it also means that you have a building season coming, it a construction season coming in the spring, where all of the projects are going to come to fruition, people are gonna start to see in their paychecks a difference that eye makes for them. that is a real agenda to run on and it s one to win on. yeah and, sahil, i have to ....
By trying to distance themselves, or separate themselves from the presidents agenda, it s, you know, like the kiss of death going into a midterm election. right. it was hard to understand, what were they shooting for. and i always thought that it was doomed anyway because nine moderate democrats was not gonna hold up nancy pelosi from delivering her entire caucus. it really, you know, maybe it was a play for headlines, but it wasn t a play that would actually ever seek fruition. although there is nothing settled yet, right? this is a complicated thing to pull off, just to remind people, they have this two track, and then there s the reconciliation bill with a larger biden agenda that has climate, care infrastructure, a ton of stuff in it. trying to do both of those, they have a very thin majority in the senate. sahil, what i thought was ....
I got to go to the jersey boys, which was an excellent show. i highly recommend it for anybody who is coming to town. anybody else seen it? i have. i actually had a chance to see a snip pet of it when mrs. bush and president bush hosted prime minister berlusconi at the white house. they came and did some entertainment for a few minutes. those are actually i think those are the guys. it was fabulous. i highly recommend the show. greg? i saw the jersey boys, but it wasn t a play. i have no idea how i got in there. i woke up. i do not want to know about that. i saw this on the web. it s prosecute break.com. you got to see this to believe it. it s a stadium, football stadium made entirely of food. at some point they re going to show it. this is all like m and ms, potato chip, hot dogs, twinkies, slim jims, chocolate and it s about 110,000 calories. if a vegan looked at this, they would drop dead. i love that. i mean the food. ....