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There will be a House committee which will be more effective than a Senate hearing choked by the GOP. As for Will Stancil, he is a Bernie bro who despises Nancy Pelosi and cheers for Democrats to lose for shunning his candidate. I don't bother with his takes. Manchin can posture all he likes. I'll wait to see what happens with the votes.

Also, Biden's polling still stands at over 60 percent. That's from the Hill, which is a Republican talking point wurlitzer. Voters on the right do watch and obsess over Fox News. It's a real issue. But their voters aren't the issue, because their voting bloc is too small to win. The real threat is gerrymandering.

His public polling and support is still pretty good. My unemployment benefits as a freelancer don't end until September, which is when they were always intended to end. The media will always use right wing framing. But as many articles have noted, Biden is teflon and the right has been unable to lay a glove on him so far. As it is though, no, at present there is no general consensus forming in the mainstream media that the jobs report is bad for Biden. Politico doing its usual concern trolling of Dems, which is all it has done since its inception under Mark Halperin (now exiled to Newsmax), does not mean that the mass media focus is that or the public has bought it. Because that's not the case. Politico does this all the time, but only certain narratives take hold in the larger public.

Naomi Wolf, deranged anti-COVID vaccine crusader, has finally been suspended from Twitter:

They're not going to be able to successfully spin the jobs report as bad for Biden, lol. Nobody is buying that today. Meanwhile: I think the only reason this is being drug out is to ensure they have 51 votes, then it ends. Here's why:

Not bright:

Biden shot a pretty hard broadside at them on national television. That's not nothing. And even Coons, I believe, is shifting on the filibuster. I think Manchin is in love with his image and the sound of his own voice. But for him to go out there and filibuster on his own on TV, as he loves to do, and then repeatedly refuse to say he would say no to killing the filibuster - that's not nothing either. That is movement.

Oh, shut up. No one has anything to prove to you when you can read the archives going back eight years to where we were all talking about this stuff literally every day when Frank and Ron Carlivati were in full swing. No one is interested in how you've been stanning for Roger since 1993 and how great his body of work once was; I know all about it. I watched OLTL all those years, I've seen dozens of fanatics like you come and go online and they all have an excuse for why he should always be onscreen in the 2010s or 2020s by pulling up grainy standard-def YouTube clips from the '90s. I watched those years, they were many good years and they have absolutely nothing to do with today's GH. You can't justify your position so you just blame everyone else. Welcome to Ignore.

Amidst Manchin's usual puffery and nonsense (such as insisting they'll 'give it another shot' on the 1/6 commission - please), this stood out to me: That's maneuvering room.

Lemay supposedly wrote or rewrote most of the 60 and 90 minute episodes himself. I don't see how you do that unless you're on amphetamines. It's insane.

These primers are always integral for following the endlessly refracting prism that is Loving, a show I enjoy as much for what it could be as well as what it often is only for brief periods, each different than the last. I can't thank you enough, dc. So when did Marcantel come back in '95, if he ever left despite being off-contract? Because when the murders started he was on canvas already, out of the institution and the storyline suggested he had been pursuing Stacey still as part of a red herring for her murder.

I think if Sinema starts losing cover from other moderates she'll fold quick. She's stupid but she's all talk. I don't think she'll switch parties.

Me neither, sadly.

The difference is that if one or both of them break, the others are too chickenshit to turn into Manchin. They'll vote party line.

Given the intense rancor surrounding Summers in the WH and the party, I don't think he will but I look fwd to plumbing through countless tweets about how he's surely going to get rolled.

There is a lot of sky is falling/hair on fire talk about this news (which I suspect was leaked by the Republicans), and I think if it stands it is an awful deal and a big mistake. But I don't think it will. I don't believe in 3-D chess with Dems most of the time, and I don't think there is any here. It doesn't have to be that sophisticated. But I do think the naturally cynical Republican sympathizer Jake Sherman is right when he says that both the WH and Capito are simply waiting to walk away and claim the other side wasn't bipartisan enough - and when that happens, and the WH decides to go it alone, this particular wildly inadequate ghost of an infrastructure bill will not be part of what is finally put to the House and Senate. This is something to float to signal to the Beltway 'look, we tried'.

This did my heart good at Disneyland's new Avengers Campus.

LOL I forgot about that.