Ridin’ with Biden

Harry Reid did say in a recent interview that the filibuster will likely be scrapped, emphasizing it's a matter of "when, not if."

All 50 Democrats have to be on board so it's going to take some talking, arm-twisting and Mitch unifying the GOP caucus against legislation for the moderates like Manchin, Kelly and Sinema to agree to do it.

If they do it within several months, they can do a LOT before the 2022 midterms.
 
Harry Reid did say in a recent interview that the filibuster will likely be scrapped, emphasizing it's a matter of "when, not if."

All 50 Democrats have to be on board so it's going to take some talking, arm-twisting and Mitch unifying the GOP caucus against legislation for the moderates like Manchin, Kelly and Sinema to agree to do it.

If they do it within several months, they can do a LOT before the 2022 midterms.

Ummmmm.....Manchin is a moderate......okaaaaaaaaaaay......

He's also on record as saying he won't abolish the filibuster.
 
Ummmmm.....Manchin is a moderate......okaaaaaaaaaaay......

He's also on record as saying he won't abolish the filibuster.

People can (and do) change their minds. Especially for a conservative Democrat whose daughter is the CEO of EpiPen.

If the GOP successfully filibusters Biden legislation even Manchin wants to pass... it's not going to be pretty.
 
People can (and do) change their minds. Especially for a conservative Democrat whose daughter is the CEO of EpiPen.

If the GOP successfully filibusters Biden legislation even Manchin wants to pass... it's not going to be pretty.

That's true. He "could". I'd just never refer to him as moderate.

I don't think they can implement the filibuster after the beginning of the new senate. Can they? I say "do it". Add a couple of states while you're at it.
 
I also see Senate Rs like Tim Scott push against Biden’s $15 minimum wage proposal. Spouting the same nonsense how it will lead to job losses and inflated prices.

Cry me a river. Pass it through reconciliation if you have to.
 
Covid created a lot of job losses. The same Covid Rs were and are garbage at fixing.

A higher minimum wage will help prop up the demand side of the economy as it always does. Rs just whine because they just believe in soaking the rich and the supply side nonsense.



 
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I also see Senate Rs like Tim Scott push against Biden’s $15 minimum wage proposal. Spouting the same nonsense how it will lead to job losses and inflated prices.

Cry me a river. Pass it through reconciliation if you have to.

Yeah. Let's figure out a sensible minimum wage bill that takes location and general economic conditions into consideration and pass it. Factor in annual adjustments. Southern California/New York City and Mississippi, for example, are completely different from an economic perspective and some minimum wage tier adjustments will be necessary.
 
People can (and do) change their minds. Especially for a conservative Democrat whose daughter is the CEO of EpiPen.
Being the CEO of EpiPen should be a red flag not a sign of breaking left.
 


They made a cute couple too.
 
Massive investment in renewable energy please.
They're desperately still trying to make this happen. Is there a reason why Canada needs this?
 
They're desperately still trying to make this happen. Is there a reason why Canada needs this?
I think they've spent a lot of prep money for this (billions) and don't want it going down the tubes. Maybe we should try to work out some sort of joint projects with Canada. Economy of scale and so on.
 
Yeah. Let's figure out a sensible minimum wage bill that takes location and general economic conditions into consideration and pass it. Factor in annual adjustments. Southern California/New York City and Mississippi, for example, are completely different from an economic perspective and some minimum wage tier adjustments will be necessary.

Any minimum wage increases will take several years so that small businesses can gradually absorb the costs. Republicans b**ch and fear monger that it will lead to job losses. When they know better than that.
 
Any minimum wage increases will take several years so that small businesses can gradually absorb the costs. Republicans b**ch and fear monger that it will lead to job losses. When they know better than that.

Say the minimum wage is $15/hr. A 2% increase is .30/hr. I think small increases should be implemented immediately so we don't fall behind like we've done in the past.
 
Say the minimum wage is $15/hr. A 2% increase is .30/hr. I think small increases should be implemented immediately so we don't fall behind like we've done in the past.

Florida's $15 minimum wage increase (passed by constitutional amendment) did just that. After the bill was passed, their $8.56/hr minimum wage went up 9 cents to $8.65 on January 1st and then increases to $10 on September 30. And then it increases $1 each year on 9/30 until 2026 when it hits $15. And then on 2027 onward it's adjusted for inflation and cost of living.

If Biden manages to get the $15 minimum wage hike passed, it will be phased in like the Florida one over 5-6 years. Like I said, a lot of people who are against it are conservative Republicans and ultra wealthy business owners. People who make more tend to spend more.
 
My approach would be to establish a minimum living wage in a given geographical area and implement it. From there, have regular increases. If you are going to work 40 hours a week, you should be able to pay rent, bills, and food costs.
 
Five to six years just to reach $15/hr?

What a joke.

I’m amazed the wage increase got passed in Florida at all. Heck, Arkansas’ minimum wage is at $11 now.

Here in NC we’re still stuck at $7.25.
 
I wonder who Biden is going to have at his inauguration to match A listers Scott Baio and Willie Robertson?
 
That's because it wasn't left up to legislators but voters.

The amendment must have been worded effectively enough so that DeSantis and the GOP legislature couldn’t mess with or delay it.

I don’t necessarily agree with the prolonged increase Florida is doing, but the House legislation for $15/hr passed in 2019 had a similarly paced rollout.
 
They're desperately still trying to make this happen. Is there a reason why Canada needs this?

I think they've spent a lot of prep money for this (billions) and don't want it going down the tubes. Maybe we should try to work out some sort of joint projects with Canada. Economy of scale and so on.

Alberta is oil crazy. Think of it as Canadian Texas.

It's not about re-cooping the investment, @InCali. Alberta is the Canadian equivalent of the worst of Texas, West Virginia coal country, and the Deep South all mixed in together. Under 50 years of Conservative government at the provincial level and most recently aided and abetted by the Harper government at the federal level, Alberta has gone all-in on oil and gas, and the Tar Sands specifically, as the basis of its economy. Tar Sands oil is a lot more expensive to produce than the purer stuff coming out of the Middle East and in recent years, the OPEC countries have depressing prices, which as been killing Alberta oil. Alberta is desperate to prop up its oil and gas industry as a result. A direct pipeline to US refineries and markets would be a huge boon for Alberta.

Alberta is highly alienated from the rest of Canada, which doesn't subscribe to its obsession with oil or its conservative politics. They are even talking separatism lately. The Liberals did not win a single seat in Alberta in the last election.

Trudeau's government is worried about alienating Alberta further and a hard push away from oil and gas in the province is not financially viable for a lot of hard-hit Alberta families. Consequently, the Liberals seem to be taking the approach of trying to wean Alberta off oil and gas slowly by supporting pipelines and other ways of propping up the industry in the short-term while pushing the country as a whole towards renewable resources through carbon taxes and related policies.

Part of me wants to say to Alberta, it's good that you are suffering, you all deserve it for putting all your chips on a dying industry trying to exploit one of the dirtiest, most environmentally unfriendly sources of oil in the whole world. If a ton of your citizens bought big, ridiculous pickup trucks and SUVs and house outside of their means, I don't care. But that is no way to run a country and will probably only cause further problems.
 

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