What does a BIDEN Presidency look like?

[Berkut]

Why does anyone care what Republicans think?

[alfred russel]

Why does anyone care what Republicans think?

Because there are filibuster rules and cloture rules that can grind everything to a halt so long as Democrats leave the rules in place, as they seem inclined to do.

[grumbler]

Why does anyone care what Republicans think?

Because there are filibuster rules and cloture rules that can grind everything to a halt so long as Democrats leave the rules in place, as they seem inclined to do.

The Republicans already eliminated the filibuster for nominations, I believe. 

[Tonitrus]

I though there were some issues with it being split 50-50 (despite the VP tie-breaker) and not a "real" majority, but I will admit to not being clued in on the details of any consequences from that.

[alfred russel]

Why does anyone care what Republicans think?

Because there are filibuster rules and cloture rules that can grind everything to a halt so long as Democrats leave the rules in place, as they seem inclined to do.

The Republicans already eliminated the filibuster for nominations, I believe.

I think they did, though you can still hold things up for 3 days or something.

[Valmy]

The Republicans are intentionally trying to fuck everything up to score big wins in 2022. You are about as able to get help from an arsonist in fire-proofing your house as to get reasonable cooperation from them. We have seen this game for a decade now and how they play it.

Maybe there is one or two who might be willing to cooperate in some circumstances but otherwise the Democrats need to get their own house in order and do everything they can with what they have. Expecting anything out of the Republicans is a fools errand.

Sure there might be one of two Republican Senators who might work with you on this issue or that issue but they are pretty disciplined under McConnell's leadership generally. Splitting them in a significant way on anything the Democrats might want to do is almost impossible.

[alfred russel]

The Republicans are intentionally trying to fuck everything up to score big wins in 2022. You are about as able to get help from an arsonist in fire-proofing your house as to get reasonable cooperation from them. We have seen this game for a decade now and how they play it.

Maybe there is one or two who might be willing to cooperate in some circumstances but otherwise the Democrats need to get their own house in order and do everything they can with what they have. Expecting anything out of the Republicans is a fools errand.

Sure there might be one of two Republican Senators who might work with you on this issue or that issue but they are pretty disciplined under McConnell's leadership generally. Splitting them in a significant way on anything the Democrats might want to do is almost impossible.

I realize I'm in the minority on this, but I think holding the trial now is a massive mistake. The outcome is preordained--there won't be a conviction. The priorities right now need to be covid relief and getting a team in place. They are trying to rush covid relief in before the trial, but republicans are going to drag both out which is going to result in delays.

What is supposed to be a presidential honeymoon period is going to sidetracked with this trial and cause a rapid descent into the standard partisan nonsense, when the trial could have been in April or May when we naturally would be there anyway.

[crazy canuck]

In what fantasy world were any Republican supporters going to have a honeymoon phase with Biden

[The Minsky Moment]

I realize I'm in the minority on this, but I think holding the trial now is a massive mistake.

when should it be held?

[alfred russel]

I realize I'm in the minority on this, but I think holding the trial now is a massive mistake.

when should it be held?

A couple months from now.

[Syt]

Well, I guess we can lock the thread, it's decided:

[Grey Fox]

That's, well, uh, a reasonable critic.

[Valmy]

Is that accurate though? I thought he was trying to get schools open ASAP.

Ah well. Hard to get good accurate information these days.

[Barrister]

I can't believe that so many of your schools remained closed to be honest.  Having our schools open is one of the better things Alberta has done in fighting Covid.  There's been very, very little spread within the schools themselves.

[Valmy]

I can't believe that so many of your schools remained closed to be honest.  Having our schools open is one of the better things Alberta has done in fighting Covid.  There's been very, very little spread within the schools themselves.

Yeah our schools are open. I can see why we closed them at first, before we had more information, but now we have data that suggests that they can be opened safely. The high cost of closing those schools does not seem worth the price at all based on what we know now.