Electability: Trump is unlikely to lose Texas in November but a new Texas Lyceum poll shows that if anyone can beat him there, it's Bernie. Trump is leading Bernie 50-47% in Texas, a 3 point lead. Trump has a5 point lead over Status Quo Joe, an 8 point lead over Elizabeth Warren and an 8 point lead over Mayo Pete. Electability is about party unity and, as you probably saw earlier in the week, Biden is hanging with the anti-Bernie fanatics and still refusing to say if he would back Bernie if Democratic voters stand up to party bosses and nominate Bernie to face Trump. Biden's fat-cat advisors and cronies are leading an all-out corporate cash smear campaign against Bernie now.AP's Bill Barrow wrote that Biden stopped short Tuesday of saying he’d support Bernie Sanders if the progressive Vermont senator wins the Democratic presidential nomination. 'I’m not going to make judgments now,' Biden told reporters in Muscatine, six days before the Iowa caucuses. 'I just think that it depends upon how we treat one another between now and the time we have a nominee.' Biden had previously promised to support the Democratic nominee, 'regardless' of who it is. At some stops along the campaign trail, Biden has even pledged to 'work like hell'” to help any of his rivals defeat President Donald Trump.In a letter to her own supporters, AOC said that in DC there are "too many leaders who are afraid of change. People who know what working-class folks need, but are too scared to fight and pass those policies. Those are the people we need to replace." She was talking about the Democrats from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- like Biden.Afraid that Bernie is unstoppable now, the scumbag DNC leadership cobbled together quick golden parachutes for themselves... just in case Bernie decides to put people in charge who care about the country more than sating their own repulsive greed. When the scheme was leaked to journalists, Tom Perez and his two top deputies, Seema Nanda and Sam Cornale claimed they knew nothing about it. One of their flacks told the media that "100% of our resources are going towards beating Donald Trump. DNC leadership will not accept any extra compensation recommended by the budget committee, which didn’t operate at the direction of DNC leadership. The resolution was crafted by the budget committee and did not involve the Chair, CEO, or Deputy CEO." A great deal of house-cleaning and swamp draining will be needed when Bernie is elected-- and it's not all about Republican corruption either.You wonder why so little gets done for the people while so much money is spent? A lot of people with pieces of power-- from Trump right down to graspers like Perez-- are working tp feather their own nests, not work for America. Did you read Emily Cochrane's NY Times piece yesterday about a doomed infrastructure bill congressional Democrats are pushing? It's a five-year, $760 billion framework for rebuilding the nation’s highways, airports and other infrastructure." Trump isn't interested.The framework "is the product of a collaboration led by Representative Peter A. DeFazio of Oregon, the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; Frank Pallone Jr. of New Jersey, the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee; and Richard E. Neal of Massachusetts, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee." Pallone and Neal are both untrustworthy crooks who should no more be allowed near anything involving expenditures than Trump should be. The 3 of them announced that "This is not just about fixing our roads and bridges. It is about seizing the opportunity to make transformational changes in communities of all sizes, in every corner of our country."Trump says he won't work with Democrats on infrastructure or anything else unless they stop investigating him. I'm surprised that didn't turn up as another impeachment count.
The renewed push for agreement on an infrastructure plan comes as Democrats, eager to shift the focus from the divisive impeachment proceedings against Mr. Trump, are mapping out an election-year agenda that showcases their policy priorities.It is highly unlikely that the plan will prompt a genuine round of negotiations with the Republican-led Senate and the White House that would yield legislation that could be signed into law before the election. But the rollout suggests that Democrats intend to spend the coming months passing a slate of popular infrastructure bills to show voters, then seek to blame Republicans and the White House if they fail to succeed.The 19-page plan to be proposed by Democrats includes $329 billion for investment in transportation systems, including improving safety measures for bicyclists and pedestrians, and $105 billion for transit agencies and maintenance needs. The framework also includes $55 billion in railway investments for both the expansion of the country’s passenger rail network and improvement of Amtrak stations and services, $19.7 billion for the upkeep of harbors and ports, $86 billion for the expansion of broadband access and additional funds to address greenhouse gas pollution and increase climate resiliency.There will also be $21.4 billion for the preservation of clean drinking water and communities dealing with toxic chemicals that can contaminate drinking water, known as PFAS. Democrats struggled to include stronger regulations for PFAS in must-pass defense policy legislation late last year, and passed a stand-alone measure in early January.And while the framework also includes transportation and infrastructure legislation routinely addressed by Congress, Democrats made a point of emphasizing efforts to counter climate change and its effects.An infrastructure plan has been an elusive goal for both the Trump administration and Congress over the last three years. The phrase “Infrastructure Week” has become something of a joke that encapsulates the dysfunction of Washington in the Trump era, after the White House repeatedly scheduled one during Mr. Trump’s first two years in office, only to have it overshadowed by a jarring comment by the president or a damaging revelation about him.Nine months before Election Day, a $1 trillion infrastructure plan is still one of Mr. Trump’s unfulfilled promises from his inaugural campaign.
