96583UP wrote:great political strategy by the Dems to save $100 B on a $1.9 T bill by directly taking it out of the pockets of middle class voters (shrinking check eligibility from $100k to $80k) ... who needed the suburbs in the midterms anyway
spike wrote:bummed about the unemployment bump no longer being increased to $400 a week, but first $10k tax free is tasty.
The key thing about this (and the minimum wage vote) is that none of these changes (or failures) are creditable to Republican efforts.
With Republicans in full obstruction mode and Democrats controlling both chambers and the White House, there is neither opportunity nor need to woo Republican votes. This is all just Democrats acting like a coalition is supposed to act: not always agreeing with each other, negotiating between disparate factions, finding compromises.
The end result is messier than when a party is in full lockstep...nobody is ever fully happy with the results, everybody comes away with grievances, and sometimes the best actions are stepped back because of one group's over-influence. But the fact that Democrats have done this much negotiating and adjusting for a signature legislation in spite of being the ONLY player at the table is one reason why I'm skeptical of a "Progressive/Moderate Civil War" ever amounting to much. There's nothing they like more than to talk each other down from the ledge of fulfilling promises.
