Ponder for a moment what Republicans will say when Nancy dies.
https://twitter.com/speakerpelosi/status/1467611238037295107?s=21
“When I shot her I thought my life was in danger.”
Narrator It was incredibly easy for him to maintain "I can’t speak about events to you, but I can speak about them in my book”
The Democrats!
Of course, watching Republican Senators talk about the problem is kind of silly because they would oppose a child care proposal regardless of its content and would especially object to my proposed solution to this specific problem, which is to get rid of the subsidy cliffs and provide subsidies to all child care users.
But it’s even sillier that the Democrats have put together a proposal so sloppy and ill-conceived that Republicans can take these shots at it. The problems with this subsidy cliff design are very well-known at this point. In fact, they are so well-known that, in this same piece of legislation , Democrats have included a provision to permanently get rid of a virtually identical subsidy cliff used to compute subsidies for insurance purchased on an Obamacare exchange.
How do you see the problem well enough to want to fix it when it comes to Obamacare but don’t see it well enough to want to avoid it when it comes to creating a child care subsidy scheme?
What’s sad is that this isn’t even the worst instance of policy amnesia when it comes to this proposal. That honor belongs to designing the program as a cash grant to states that choose to participate in it. We know from Medicaid expansion that the result of this design will be that many states won’t participate. Indeed, we know this well enough by now that, in this same piece of legislation , Democrats have included a provision to directly provide health insurance to people in non-participating states who fall into the so-called “Medicaid gap.” They could change the design of the child care program to avoid creating a similar “child care gap,” but they don’t seem to want to.
Fast forward to 2023 - “damn progressives!”
https://twitter.com/public_citizen/status/1468712325893050377?s=21
oof. that sucks for kenya
constantly sending shit americans out of america is definitely one of my favorite parts of this presidency
The GOP is going to have a filibuster proof majority in the senate in 2024
https://twitter.com/ralstonreports/status/1469119566311743492?s=21
Remember when people on this forum went off on progressives that voiced concern about voting for Biden? Short memories around here.
What if this is mostly driven by opposition to the indoor mask mandate?
Those people were smart.