Democrats are heading for disaster in the Senate
"...the national environment has shifted 9 percentage points to the right."
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"...the national environment has shifted 9 percentage points to the right."
And Mariupol reports 10,000 dead.
The Secret Congress theory is enticing because it offers a possibility that gridlock is a somewhat illusory phenomenon, necessarily illuminated by the fact that bills the public knows about are much more likely to fail than those that remain obscure. However, its core claim relies on an unproven causal relationship, which could convincingly work the opposite way, and this fact leaves its implications with questionable value and inherently limited scope.
There is an interesting counterfactual scenario for the now-flailing Biden presidency, where the president responded to the initial success of his bipartisan infrastructure push — all those Republicans at the
The best family policy deal would give progressives more of the money they want to spend...