The Worm has Turned - - - Sharply!
No more softball from the left. It’s over. They are in process of reverting to type.
This is copied and pasted from today’s WaPo:
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) vowed Monday to hold a vote early next year on a roughly $2 trillion bill to overhaul the country’s health-care, education, climate, immigration and tax laws, despite Sunday’s announcement by Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) that he could not support President Biden’s signature legislation.
“Senators should be aware that the Senate will, in fact, consider the Build Back Better Act, very early in the new year so that every Member of this body has the opportunity to make their position known on the Senate floor, not just on television,” Schumer said. “We are going to vote on a revised version of the House-passed Build Back Better Act — and we will keep voting on it until we get something done.”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki unleashed a blistering 712-word written statement accusing Manchin of making a “sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position” and calling his comments a “breach of his commitments” to Biden and Democratic lawmakers, if he has decided to end negotiations.
Schumer’s vow to hold a vote on the bill echoed that of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, who said Sunday that Manchin would “have a lot of explaining to do to the people of West Virginia” about his opposition to the bill.
In his letter Monday, Schumer noted that the negotiations have already delayed an anticipated vote on the bill by the end of the year.
“Neither that delay, nor other recent pronouncements, will deter us from continuing to try to find a way forward,” Schumer wrote. “We simply cannot give up. We must and we will keep fighting to deliver for working families.”
During a morning television appearance, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) accused Manchin of a “betrayal of working families across the country” and said his announcement was “an egregious breach of the trust of the president.”
She was referring to a claim by the White House that Manchin, just days earlier, had promised to continue negotiations with Biden after submitting a written framework of a version of the bill he could back.
“No one can really be promised a Manchin vote,” Ocasio-Cortez said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” adding that fellow Democrats had been “strung along” by the senator.
In his letter, Schumer said senators would also consider voting rights legislation as early as the first week after they return to Washington in January.
Schumer said that if Republicans continue to block such legislation, the chamber will consider a change in rules.
“If Senate Republicans continue to abuse the filibuster and prevent the body from considering this bill, the Senate will then consider changes to any rules which prevent us from debating and reaching final conclusion on important legislation,” he wrote.
Their disguise is now off. It has become clear to all that America is dealing with a hard left, Marxist, party masquerading as the traditional Democrat party. That party is long gone. When these leftists do not get their way they become apoplectic. They are extremely dangerous.
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