Pelosi is dumbing down Biden's deal. Manchin and Sinema have power beyond belief and they're using it to tank the best legislation since TND. This is the kind of legislation I always think "why can't we just do something serious, do it big and do it for real". This is reminding me of how we dropped the ball on healthcare. You think of how transformative something like having a simple, honest tax system that was fair and enforced would be easy, but it'll never happen. Or just installing a single-payer healthcare system. Simple, but just seemingly won't happen. This deal was pretty close to something along those lines though, a sort of paradigm shift. These two glory-seekers are pissing me off. I won't call Manchin a fake democrat, because it took a lot for him to vote the way he did on many things during Trump's term. But if he was just going to turn around and do this, then what was the point? Oh.... and he's from West Virginia? WTF dude. This was a real time to gobble up tons of money for your state and actually do that retraining thing people have harped on for a decade or more now.
They'll just neuter it. Oh well. Biden has still got a crap-ton done in 9 months. If he can pull this off without thinning his wish list down too much, it'll be pretty remarkable.
But yeah, democrats are incompetent.