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Mr. Erickson I am so glad that you are there to explain all of crap that goes on in Washington. I would also like to thank Mr. Manchin for poking a finger in the eye of the progressives. They need to start their own country somewhere else far far away. Again thank you and I so hope that you are right.

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All that's well and good, Erick, but I'm still unhappy that we have to rely on Democrat votes to prevent all this Green Raw Deal nitwittery from being passed into law. (Thanks, Georgia!)

I'll see your failed (as it now stands) reconcialation package and raise you one failed "hard", or real, infrastructure package. AOC, in her role as the real House Speaker, will get enough of her Marxist radical, er, "progressive", colleagues to vote against that bill in the House, resulting in the Bidenauts' entire agenda going down in flames without a single shot being fired by a Republican. True, they will try to spin it as the result of Republican obstruction, but they nominally have the votes to pass both bills; if neither passes, then they have only themselves to blame. This will make the 2022 Democrat primary season wonderful fun, as the Dems' circular firing squad will be provided with an endless supply of ammunition, and a nearly infinite supply of targets.

Even if this turkey were somehow to get off the ground, the GOP would still be the beneficiaries. The House Parliamentarian again removed any mention of amnesty from it yesterday, so the progs already have their knickers in a wad. No one is seriously buying the claim of "It's paid for" Democrats are making about adding another $3.5, $5.5 or whatever trillion dollars to the national credit card bill, so the 2022 campaign ads will just write themselves. Even the deletion of amnesty won't help them; Hispanic-American and African=American citizens will be reminded early and often that the Democrats seriously advocated putting illegal immigrants ahead of them. Either way, America, and incidentally the Republicans, win, although we're still then in need of the real infrastructure improvements the smaller bill funded. Then, all we have to do is wait and see if the nascent Chinese banking disaster comes to pass, threatening to take down the entire global economy with it, and whether Xi Jinping decides to distract attention from it by invading Taiwan.

Alas, we do live in interesting times.

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Is anyone keeping track of how many times Erick is wrong? I think it's time. Erick, you want your paid folks to hold you accountable, right?

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I hope you're right Erick. I've questioned your prognostication skills ever since you wrote "Georgia is not going to turn blue" prior to the 2020 election.

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