I Wouldn’t Say Goodbye Yet, but BBB Is Certainly Gasping for Air

Bye bye, BBB? | Washington Examiner

With BIF enacted, neither Sen. Manchin nor Sen. Sinema has any incentive to support the $1.75 trillion bill that would drastically expand the welfare state. The progressives gave up the leverage they had in terms of votes in the House of Representatives. Manchin or Sinema can now safely come out in opposition to BBB.

Even before BIF passed the House, months after the Senate had done so, Manchin already expressed reservations about the BBB. His concerns included paid family leave provisions and how the BBB would affect inflation. And, right now, inflationary concerns are only growing. Meanwhile, Sinema has come out in opposition to certain tax increases, limiting how revenue could be raised under BBB.

Richman thinks it will never pass. He’s more optimistic than I am. But it certainly seems like Manchin and Sinema are still firm “no”’s. I don’t know how much arm-twisting can be done. I suspect they’re going to have to re-write part of the bill and cut it again. If they cut it too much, they’ll lose the support of the progressive wing, though. Biden is going to have to be charming and walk a tightrope. Neither of these are typically in his skillset. We shall see.

McConnell Channels His Inner Picard

Biden Warned In Letter Ripping Schumer’s Speech: ‘Even Democratic Senators Were Visibly Embarrassed’ | The Daily Wire

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wrote a scathing letter to President Joe Biden on Friday informing the president that Republicans would not bail out Democrats again if they failed to raise the debt limit by themselves.

McConnell’s letter also called out Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer’s (D-NY) speech on the Senate floor on Thursday evening, which was widely criticized after Schumer attacked Republicans despite Republicans having thrown him a lifeline to get out of a situation that would have been bad for the Democratic Party.

McConnell began:

Last night, Republicans filled the leadership vacuum that has troubled the Senate since January. I write to inform you that I will not provide such assistance again if your all-Democrat government drifts into another avoidable crisis.

The Senate Democratic Leader had three months’ notice to handle one of his most basic governing duties. Amazingly, even this proved to be asking too much. Senator Schumer spent 11 weeks claiming he lacked the time and the leadership skills to manage a straightforward process that would take less than two weeks. Whether through weakness or an intentional effort to bully his own members, Senator Schumer marched the nation to the doorstep of disaster. Embarrassingly, it got to the point where Senators on both sides were pleading for leadership to fill the void and protect our citizens. I stepped up.

Or, in other words:

Read the whole thing. McConnell’s letter is quite brutal and makes it clear that the Democrats can’t count on the Republicans to bail them out again.

I am writing to make it clear that in light of Senator Schumer’s hysterics and my grave concerns about the ways that another vast, reckless, partisan spending bill would hurt Americans and help China, I will not be a party to any further effort to mitigate the consequences of Democratic mismanagement. Your lieutenants on Capitol Hill now have the time they claimed they lacked to address the debt ceiling through standalone reconciliation, and all the tools to do it. They cannot invent another crisis and ask for my help.

Math Is Hard

Chris Wallace: Biden’s Zero-Dollar Claim ‘Might Be The Dumbest Spin Line I’ve Ever Heard’ (lifezette.com)

I can’t believe that Fox News’s Chris Wallace, a man who promoted Joe Biden for president joined “The Brian Kilmeade Show” on Thursday, to weigh in on this idiotic Democratic talking point that the president’s Build Back Better agenda “costs zero dollars.”

His response on Brian’s show was not only funny, but many Americans will definitely agree with him.

CHRIS WALLACE: I've been in Washington for more than 40 years and this might be the dumbest spin line I've ever heard, that a $3 trillion bill costs nothing, because you're going to pay for it." pic.twitter.com/B9GrkoOjOU

— WayneDupree.com (@WayneDupreeCom) October 7, 2021

You voted for this, Chris. You’re a disgrace to the “Chris” name.

Yes, it is incredibly stupid. Just because you raise taxes to pay for something doesn’t mean it has no cost. It costs everyone who has to pay for it. Duh!

The problem is that Democrats always play the long game. They’ll actually convince a few nutjobs that this makes sense. And then they’ll go to this well over and over, now that they’ve tried it once. And each time they’ll convince a few more people. In a decade, a majority will actually believe this drivel.

And people like me will continue to shake our heads in disgust.

Big Government

Report: Biden administration can't account for as many as 20 million vaccine doses that were sent to states – TheBlaze

According to a report from Politico, the Biden administration is struggling mightily to deliver on its promise to get a handle on the COVID-19 pandemic, and may have even lost track of as many as 20 million vaccine doses that were sent to the states.

Ok, I bring this up not to mock President Joe Biden’s (D-USA) administration, believe it or not. With such a big rollout, things like this were bound to happen.

No, I am reminding everyone that this is the kind of thing the Trump administration would have had to spend weeks explaining. And it’s barely newsworthy in 2021. I am reminding everyone that left mercilessly savaged Trump when anything like this occurred. This sort of thing was why we voted him out. Biden was going to make everything better.

Nope.

Finally, I want to remind everyone that this is the kind of thing you get with big government. And 80 million of you voted for more and bigger government.

#IToldYouSo