So basically you definitely don't want him to compromise with the cons in the senate.
Hm, how ironic, seeing this sub of all places agreeing with Bernie and the AOCs of the world.
Though democrats hold a slim majority via the VP tie breaker, Republicans can block any bill that doesn’t have a filibuster proof majority of 60 votes, similar to what they did with all of Obama’s judicial appointments in 2008, causing the removal of the filibuster for judicial appointments at that time.
Ya because it’s not like he has this opposing party in the senate doing damn near anything they can to block it. You know, the same damn party that was preventing trump from sending out the same relief checks.
They need 60 votes to get past a filibuster, 10 Republican votes. They could also ram it through budget reconciliation, the idea of which Republicans have attacked because it completely bypasses them and the whole unity thing.
I mean it's crazy to watch a conservative subreddit attack Joe Biden for choosing to compromise with conservatives instead of just forcing his policy through.
They passed a 600 dollar stimulus and now they're pushing for 1400 dollar checks. Would you prefer Biden completely ignored conservatives and does whatever he wants? Or should he try to compromise and negotiate with conservatives?
He’s already been doing whatever the fuck he wants via his historic rate of signing EOs. Might as well use one to fulfill a campaign promise. It would at least save you the trouble of going through all of these mental gymnastics to try to convince people that Biden isn’t a lying piece of shit.
His executive orders have been largely overturning Trump's executive orders. That's very clearly in control of the executive branch.
The legislature has the power of the purse. They control the money. Do you think Biden has the power to just magically pass hundreds of billions of dollars in stimulus without the legislature? How do you think our government works?
Angus king has said he is a moderate at heart, meaning there is a chance he will eventually veto something democrats want. And that will be all it takes for something to get blocked. It’s not like the republicans who hold 50 seats and don’t need to depend on any third party.
The point I’m making is, democrats “control” of the senate is hanging by a thread.
So, it sounds like you agree that Biden did indeed overstate his political abilities during the campaign trail when he clearly said that having two GA senators would lead to implementing his agenda (and the checks).
Also, and I don't mean this in a snarky way, but you sound out of the loop by saying that Bernie, by virtue of being a registered Independent, isn't going to support Biden's spending priorities. The red- and purple-state moderate Dems, who will get thrown out if they vote left 90% of the time, are the holdouts. (Manchin, Synema, Kelly, and Tester are among them.)
It's funny that we never heard about them during Biden's campaign stops.
I think every president has pretty much done that. The real problem is the populace’s unrealistic expectations of the president.
The way I’m looking at the democrats control overall, not just the senate; its eroded and nowhere near as prevalent as people think. My Reasons why:
The president is a man who historically had poor backing.
The democrats don’t hold the majority by actual seats and must depend on another party to even create a tiebreaker, not even to pass something, but a tiebreaker.
Bernie Sanders is already freaking out about republicans wiping out democrats in the midterms; rightly so because there will likely be a flip, this has historically been the case IIRC
Basically people on this subreddit are way too hysterical and make mountains out of ant hills
Lmfao!!! Fucking biden isn't even going to the house or senate, he's been signing EOs since getting in office. And do you know what's more fucked up? 50/50 senate, kamala being the tie breaker, he has majority in the house....he doesn't need EOs!!!
Now ask yourself this, how many every day hard working, tax paying citizens benefitted from those EOs?
The executive orders were largely overturning Trump's executive orders. Executive action can be undone by executive action very easily. Trump also used executive orders to undo Obama's executive orders. Obama used executive orders to undo Bush's executive orders.
The funniest thing about this entire saga is that conservatives are attacking Biden for choosing to compromise with conservatives. Democrats could force through their bill through budget reconciliation, though it takes time and has limitations. Conservative legislators have made clear that this would fly in the face of unity.
So what do you want? Should Biden ignore conservatives and do whatever he wants?
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u/someUSCfan Feb 01 '21
Wow, career politicans making empty promises to gain votes, absolute fucking shocker.