The Campaign Update: Infrastructure Vote Today? Maybe, Maybe Not.
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Late Wednesday afternoon, Politico reported in its Politico Nightly newsletter that the Sock Puppet had reached a tentative deal with Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema on a “framework” for the vast welfare state expansion bill, a deal that might - MIGHT - lead to a vote on Biden’s cherished “infrastructure” bill as soon as Thursday.
It’s a big “MIGHT.”
Biden is desperate to see the “infrastructure” bill, which includes hundreds of billions of dollars in new and expanded subsidies for wind, solar and electric vehicles, to be passed before the UN convenes its COP26 climate summit on Halloween. The Sock Puppet wants to be able to show up in Glasgow and be able to brag that his administration has convinced congress to pass “historic investments” in fighting climate change, a claim that would be specious at best.
But hey, making specious claims and promises intended to be broken is all that happens at these climate conferences. That’s literally the goal.
As we discussed yesterday, the Democrats also want to get the infrastructure/Green New Deal bill voted out this week because they think it will help Terry McAuliffe win the governor’s race in Virginia. So, the Sock Puppet really, really, really wants the senate to vote on the Green New Deal bill today or Friday.
His problem, though, is that while he thinks he has a deal with Manchin and Sinema to advance the bill out of the senate, nobody has checked in with Pramila Jayapal, AOC and the other 20 or so members of the House woke nitwit radical leftist caucus that has been holding up a vote in that chamber since its essential framework was agreed-to in the senate in late July.
Biden is scheduled to meet with House Ds this morning, causing a delay in his flight over to Italy where he is supposed to meet with the Marxist Pope Friday morning before flying over to Glasgow for the COP26 confab. If the Sock Puppet can convince Jayapal and AOC and Ilhan Omar and the other woke nitwits to sign off on a framework to the welfare expansion bill, he will get his infrastructure/Green New Deal vote.