I’m sending this email from Hazleton, Pennsylvania, where we’ve come for Aunt Mimi’s 70th high school reunion, a gathering of the Hazleton High School class of ‘51. (If you missed the email earlier this year about how Mimi’s Hazleton roots are entangled with Joe Biden’s,
"House progressives, through the Congressional Progressive Caucus, threatened to take the whole thing down if it was watered down, and the centrists caved."
Well, it looks like the New Blue Dogs", same as the "Old Blue Dogs", cannot suffer pressure when they are not fully in charge and do the usual: they cave in.
For now. Manchin is sharpening his swing-senator vetoing knife with the often used grindstone.
Mitch is not saying anything, just enjoying the show.
"House progressives, through the Congressional Progressive Caucus, threatened to take the whole thing down if it was watered down, and the centrists caved."
Well, it looks like the New Blue Dogs", same as the "Old Blue Dogs", cannot suffer pressure when they are not fully in charge and do the usual: they cave in.
For now. Manchin is sharpening his swing-senator vetoing knife with the often used grindstone.
Mitch is not saying anything, just enjoying the show.
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