The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(04-22-2021, 04:17 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(04-20-2021, 10:42 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(03-17-2021, 10:20 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(03-16-2021, 05:27 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: If things keep going as they are, I expect the Democrats to cram as much as they can into the second reconciliation bill.

I agree, but they still have to contend with the limitation of that device. Killing the hyper-generous tax cuts for corporations and the rich should be a no-brainer, but Joe Manchin is still out there being himself.

And let's not forget Steven Breyer, who seems intent on being another RBG.  That's one thing that's fully in his control.  He has to know where he stands in the grand scheme of things, yet nothing so far.

With the Democrats in control of the Senate, he has about a year to decide to resign.

I'm not sanguine.  Thurgood Marshall should have been a wake-up call to RBG, but she must have believed she was immortal.  Now Breyer is dong the same thing.  It's selfishness at its worst.  

He has already had a great run; time to fold his cards and retire.

He hasn't gotten sick yet, as RBG had. But it's a salient point. He is 82. If enough millennials don't vote in 2022, then Mitch McConnell could block whomever Biden appoints. By 2024, Biden himself will be 82. If he doesn't run again and the Democrats nominate Harris, then Trump or Cotton or someone similar will be elected president and Breyer will have to survive until he's in his 90s.