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Kagro in the Morning


Mar 9, 2021

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David Waldman and Joan McCarter! Tuesday! KITM! No chaos can be altogether thrilling! You’ll adapt.

Finally! Senate Democrats have passed the Joe Biden administration’s, exclusively Democratic Party facilitated, American Rescue Planthe most significant anti-poverty legislation passed in the U.S. in decades! Now it’s back to the House, then into the history books, and the pockets of people that need it.

The Dems seem solid, but just aren’t. Something is not quite… arrayed right. It might require quantum physics to explain the enigmatic Kyrsten Sinema and the inscrutable Joe Manchin, and calculate how to get them in line. David and Joan look in detail on how Manchin might be cajoled or coerced into doing the right thing, or the left thing, as it were.

A tougher, “talking” filibuster might succeed because Republicans didn’t take the job to “work”, and really aren’t in the habit. The $15 minimum wage amendment failed, but was it truly because of a lack of Democratic grit, or a wider, soon to be successful strategy? Today, David looked into the 14,000,605 procedures that if followed, could have turned out worse.