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Home Front: Politix
Squad goals: Ocasio-Cortez warns Biden patience is wearing thin
2021-06-21
"Wahh! I'm 32 and the world has not been remade according to my specifications. I shall move to another planet and tend bar there."
[Guardian]The underlying challenge for Biden is how to keep together an unwieldy Democratic coalition that encompasses conservative senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia — which is Donald Trump country — and senator Bernie Sanders, a self-declared democratic socialist from Vermont, who this week drafted a $6trn infrastructure package.
Oh come on, let's just admit that Bernie is a Commmunist and cut out the verbal gymnastics.
Then there is the squad,
...the Guardian isn’t to know, being English and all, but it’s The Squad, because they’re just that kewl or something...
the left-leaning group of House members that now consists of seven people of color.
I missed the additions — are they budding?
The more that Manchin digs in his heels against ambitious legislation, the more restive the squad is likely to become, raising difficult questions over whether Biden is applying sufficient pressure to bring the doubters on board.
I wonder how well Antifa would do in West Virginia.
Yvette Simpson, chief executive of the progressive organization Democracy for America, said: "Right now people are really getting frustrated because it’s been six months and we don’t see Joe Biden engaging in the way that he should to push for more support. In fact, he’s negotiating against us and what Democrats want.

Squad members including Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib sharply criticized Israel for its recent bombing of Gaza and challenged the Biden administration’s unwavering support for the country. And when Harris told Guatemalans, "Do not come" to the US, Ocasio-Cortez called the comment "disappointing" and noted that it is legal to seek asylum.
Is there anyone who likes Harris? I mean other than Willie Brown.
Ocasio-Cortez has also been pushing Biden to face up to the fact that bipartisanship with a radicalized Republican party is a doomed enterprise.
Posted by:Matt

#8  The Goal:
North America - Harris - AOC - Squad Leadership

Posted by: Squinty Squank1024   2021-06-21 17:04  

#7  Didn't some Austrian painter give a similar speech in 1938, making all kinds of demands? Yes, I believe he did.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2021-06-21 16:45  

#6  
Kamala Harris & Willie Brown: Her Relationship With Former San Francisco Mayor Explained
Lists Top 5 "quick facts" about their relationship,
may surprise a reader...
"Harris has expressed frustration over continued questions about the old relationship (w/Brown), once calling it an albatross around her neck.

Somebody else had the same around his neck too.

Posted by: Big Glulet4132   2021-06-21 15:40  

#5  Watchu gonna do?
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-06-21 14:09  

#4  Like of washtub full of baby crocodiles, just gnashing their teeth, waiting for their moment...
Posted by: SteveS   2021-06-21 13:50  

#3  Still waiting for that trumpeted demoncrat civil war to come about.
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-06-21 13:47  

#2  She and her ''squad' need to threaten to caucus with the Pubs.
Posted by: Bobby   2021-06-21 13:19  

#1  Is there anyone who likes Harris? I mean other than Willie Brown.

Even Willie might be wondering if it was good for his reputation to...uh...date someone as repulsive as Kamala Harris.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-06-21 12:03  

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