(#4528) The compromise infrastructure bill is a good thing

      I hear pundits on the news trying to make the compromise infrastructure bill sound like it is a betrayal to democratic politics. I call bullshit! The compromise bill is actually a gift to us democrats in that we get to appease our moderate democratic senators while giving the progressive democratic senators the power now to pass an infrastructure bill that has all the other non compromisable policies that they crave with moderate democratic support. By achieving the moderate half of the infrastructure bill with traditional infrastructure needs we will now also use reconciliation to pass the newly defined infrastructure policies that are demanded of by our progressive base. A win/win!
     Joe Biden has played this out masterfully and should get the lion's share of the credit for his strategy of a two track approach to achieve real infrastructure advancement. I am more than pleasantly pleased that the mcconnells of the world are left holding a bag of shit as their prize while we the American people we begin to see real change to our society. With Biden pulling support from at least 10 republican senators without mcconnells approval is deft to say the least. As well those 10 republicans are now able to go home and crow about their compromised victory.
     What this does as well if not even more so is that Joe Biden is now showing the way forward for our whole democratic party when it comes to elections. He shows we can work together with any other political party and as well deliver amazing progress to our working middle poor class. After the last four years of a hateful idiot running our federal government it is nice to be back to an intelligent crafty politician of Joe Biden's magnitude. I expect after this infrastructure victory the path forward on voting rights will also happen with some form of filibuster carve out. It is the only way it can happen and given Joe Biden and his persuasions at full bore I expect that the democratic party will find itself authoring a voting rights bill that protects and defends the right of all citizens to vote.