#speakerofthehouse

Republicans are too busy with culture wars, repeating the BigLie about election 2020, vying for followers on line and pursuing face time on FoxFakeNews, chasing after the latest fact-free conspiracy theories pushed by the right wing nut-jobs, conducting hearings based on wild accusations against the Justice Department, FBI, Hunter Biden and acting on the whims of their Criminal-In-Chief Trump.  

Don’t forget the “Impeachment Inquiry” against President Biden (without a shred of evidence of any wrong doing) which the Republicans are conducting to appease their corrupt, psycho leader LyinKing Trump.  

Republicans are having difficulties finding a new House Speaker who wasn't an insurrectionist that voted against certification of results of the 2020 election.

Gym Jordan and others whose subservience to their criminal leader Trump - by promoting his Big Lie and refusing to certify the 2020 election results - are finding it's come back to bite them in the ass.

Thank goodness for Nancy Pelosi.

This week, Madame Speaker somehow hulked a slate of Democratic legislative priorities through the House of Representatives, staving off a half-masted mutiny from moderate members of her own party. And suddenly, it seems like several progressive wish list items are closer than they’ve been in recent memory to becoming reality.

At issue this week was a budget reconciliation bill and President Biden’s Infrastructure Plan. The Infrastructure Plan includes funds to repair and update “traditional” infrastructure projects—things that crews of workers in hard hats get paid to do, like fixing roads and bridges and improving broadband. That plan had already passed the Senate, with some Republican support.

The budget resolution that House Democrats are advancing includes up to $3.5 trillion to reinforce the social safety net and address “soft” infrastructure priorities, like establishing a federal paid family leave program, addressing climate concerns, and making childcare more affordable, all of which are just as -if not more- important for enabling people to get to work as tunnels and trains. 

Pelosi and progressive Democrats had insisted that they would not pass the Senate’s infrastructure bill unless the Senate advanced the House’s budget resolution. But a group of nine moderate Democrats threatened to blow all that up by insisting the House vote on the infrastructure bill first, or they would kill the budget resolution. (No Labels pretty much called them heroes!)

In the end, the moderates were out-maneuvered by Pelosi, who got her caucus in line and advanced the resolution in exchange for a pinky-promise that she would get the infrastructure bill passed by Sept. 27. Progressives in the House like Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington spoke optimistically about writing a budget bill that includes top progressive priorities in the coming weeks, and the Democrats who threatened to blow up the entire delicate negotiation process now look a lot like people who fucked around, and found out.