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(D) Phil Weiser
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
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October 20, 2021 11:34 AM UTC
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In the long run, there could also be another cure … a majority AND a few from the minority party who are willing to cooperate to pass good policy.
I'm not certain which is more likely. Both seem far fetched in the current environment.
When the government subsidizes goods and services, the price always, always, always goes up, requiring an increase in the subsidy, resulting in increased prices, requiring an increase in the subsidy, resulting in increased prices, requiring an increase in the subsidy, resulting in increased prices, requiring and increase in the subsidy……………………
You are talking about oil and gas…amirite?
Highways and transportation . . .
That’s just not true. There are at last 10 government-subsidized programs that are highly successful at basic social goods; feeding hungry students, housing poor people, making health care accessible to all who need it, etc.
I know that as a dyed in the wool Republican, you don’t accept that social goods are worth subsidizing: let the kids starve. Throw those disabled and elderly people out on the street. If you get too sick to work, die quickly.
I haven’t studied all of them, but in general, these seem to stimulate the economy as well as providing social goods. Farmers depend on the SNAP markets. ACA has kept health care costs from increasing as much as they were.
Housing subsidies have not held housing costs down at all; but there are other influencing factors, including the intense profiteering of giant realtor companies.
Your own industry has and will benefit more from road improvements in the BBB and bipartisan infrastructure bills. There are more regulations you probably don’t like, but also $1 Bn in truck parking, etc.
We’ll see how much you’re still complaining about government subsidies when they help your own bottom line.
If Dems can only find one seat they can flip, they can moot Republican-lite Manchin's obstructionism; two and Sinema becomes irrelevant, too. So where are they? Who's campaign can we all support to take their decisive votes away from them
Dems will be incredibly lucky to exit the mid-term elections in a year still holding 50 Senate seats, with Manchin and Sinema.
Unfortunately, that is true. Dems dodged a couple of bullets in NH and VT when Chris Sununu and Phil Scott decided it wouldn't be much fun sitting between a bunch of assholes like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.
But Ralph Warnock has an uphill fight on his hands as does Mark Kelly. (Kelly's fight is slightly less uphill.)
Best chance for the Dems to keep the 50 seats we currently have: Trump decides to launch one of his Boomerang Jihads attacking fellow Republicans who do not want to relitigate the 2020 election in 2022 and suppressing GOP voter turnout like he did in the Georgia runoff last January.
Next best chance is that the GOP runs a full slate of nut jobs (e.g., Eric Grittens or one of the gun-toting McCloskeys in MO, J.D. Vance or Josh Mandel in OH, and Ron Johnson in WI). The Dems lost a really nice opportunity when Sean Parnell dropped out in PA. Maybe "Chem Trails" Kelly Ward or Sheriff Joe Arpaio will give it another go in AZ.
R & R: Dems also will need better messaging. They still don’t have effective answers to the “dog whistle” messages of “defund the police,” “critical race theory,” “socialism,” and the new one, used by Youngkin in Virginia, a stronger focus on parents for school curricula.