Posted on 11/11/2021 6:36:13 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
STILWELL, Kan. — Traffic whizzing behind her, Rep. Sharice Davids gathered reporters at a transportation facility along U.S. 69 in eastern Kansas this week to celebrate the surge of federal money headed in her state’s direction.
The massive infrastructure package passed last week means $2.6 billion for Kansas roads — some of the largest investments in them since President Dwight D. Eisenhower, once a Kansan himself, supported the construction of the national highway system in the 1950s.
Davids is hardly the only member of her party celebrating. With their narrow control of Congress at stake in 2022, Democrats across the country are donning hard hats and staging photo ops near bridges to highlight long-neglected public works projects set to spring to life thanks to the more than $1 trillion plan.
It’s an attempt to move past months of infighting between progressives and moderates and unite around a shovel-ready approach to kicking the post-coronavirus pandemic economy into high gear.
For Democrats like Davids, facing tough reelection fights, the public works bonanza may be their ticket out of political peril — a potential boon with moderate and independent voters who turned against the party in last week’s elections in New Jersey and Virginia and who will decide races in most swing districts next year.
“Now is the time to turn the corner,” said New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, Democratic Congressional Committee chairman. “There’s enough blame to go around, but we have achieved a huge win for working and middle-class people.”
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Although they will portray opposition to the next boondoggle, these GOP enabled this by voting for the Trojan horse bill.
Dan Sullivan (R-AK) Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) Mike Crapo (R-ID) Roy Blunt (R-MO) Richard Burr (R-NC) Deb Fischer (R-NE) Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Rob Portman (R-OH) Thom Tillis (R-NC) Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Jim Risch (R-ID) Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Bill Cassidy (R-LA) Kevin Cramer (R-ND) Roger Wicker (R-MS) Mitch McConnell (R-KY) John Hoeven (R-ND) Susan Collins (R-ME) Mitt Romney (R-UT)
They just passed a bill that contains a large inflation tax. They don’t care about low and middle income working families. Liars. They are all liars.
I thought this passed both chambers, if not what stage is the bill at?
Nope. Total wishful thinking by the Dems. These projects will taken months of study. The few billion in this monster that actually go for infrastructure will have no impact on people’s lives until well after Nov 2022
Meanwhile every single week voting Americans are seeing their paychecks they work so hard for destroyed by out of control inflation.
Democrat’s are living in fantasy land if they think this is going to do anything to help them in 2022
Tell Ca to get rid of the Trucker rules that is killing the Ports in Ca.
It's the economy stupid.
Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy approve of that message.
This is Brandon’s Bring Back Boondoggles turd.
I thought that just passed the house.
I think they have to reconcile the two differing bills into one bill.
No, the “infrastructure Trojan horse bill” was passed with 16 republican votes, if I have the names and numbers right.
The Wreck & Ruin & Free Money for All Bill has yet to be pushed over the top by the Republicans.
That bill could be dragged out a bit, with various feints and stops, but one can certainly not count on Kevin McCarthy to demonstrate anything resembling courage, let alone self-sacrifice. The chickensh—t A-Hole.
So there’s nothing for Biden to sign right now?
As I understand it even the Dems have to work out the last of the lumps and wrinkles in the bill that they are seeing as their own loot, their own due, their endless cut-outs and thefts.
Pelosi and Dems will still face a number of squirmishes, battles and backstabs...while our republicans will squirm and sneak and lie about getting or not not getting their bags hefty bags of wak-around green.
Look at McCarthy at the mike. He is as pained and contorted as a lousy frightened thief can be. He is a weakling who has witnessed our nation brought to its knees, and yet he will find the wherewithall to watch it happen and thank his lesser lords for making it done.
I think not. They have to iron out the differences in the two versions of the bill to decided just how to screw us.
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