Where were you when I posted (well ahead of normal election day) that I had already voted for the Dem pres candidate for the first time in my life. (Actually, I think I said more like I had voted AGAINST Trump, rather than for Biden.) Check with Kick, I'm sure she'll confirm that.

Stucki is making me agree with him, but he did say it:

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/10/15/are-republicans-getting-worried/#comment-170255

I said he deserved a little ass for doing it and then drew him one.
Good times. :)

Exactly! :)

Bleyd is also from Texas and resides in TX-23 as does Kick.

I'm pretty sure Bleyd is from Harris County, and poor Steedo has Louie Gohmert as his representative... so none of us lives in TX-23, which covers a huge chunk of Texas on the Mexican border. :)

Is Kick the only Texan here?

Bleyd and Steedo too.

This is why I said recently that we need to start preparing NOW to provide another alternative to vote for in 2022 after the Deathocrats let us down again so that the only alternative in 2022 will not be Republikillers.

As if there aren't already multiple alternative choices on ballots across America that are neither Democrats nor Republicans. Another lie from Don Harris who argues out of both sides of his ass on this particular issue.

Let's get One Demand started so that will can have politicians that will actually be taking action instead of making empty promises while campaigning that leave us disappointed even though it is "entirely expected".

Let's at least admit your shit has been started for multiple years and failing the same amount of time.

Think about that for a minute.

You should never ask anyone else to do something that you either cannot or will not do yourself; think about that.

You just admitted that you expected Biden to disappoint you. Why are people voting for someone based on campaign promises that they KNOW are empty promises?

CW disappoints you on a near-daily basis. Why are you still here with your bullshit routine?

We can do better.

Apparently you can't. You've been told to get your own blog, and yet here you remain whining about the same shit over and over and getting nowhere.

If that's true, and it's a pretty big 'IF', then, yes ... it did work like a charm - to pass the critical COVID relief bill!!!

The federal minimum wage bill can come later or next, even as he has a lot of bipartisan support for it. Biden is not nearly as cynical as he is being made out to be, here. First things, first and all that.

How would you say your pick for pres is doing, so far?

Where were you when I posted (well ahead of normal election day) that I had already voted for the Dem pres candidate for the first time in my life. (Actually, I think I said more like I had voted AGAINST Trump, rather than for Biden.) Check with Kick, I'm sure she'll confirm that.

BTW C.R.S. did you vote to reelect Trump last November? If so, why?

C. R. Stucki wrote:

No minimum wage boost, no big "helicopter money" stimulus checks, but perhaps a mite of "Buyer's Remorse"?

You mean, like any of the 80 million Biden voters would have voted for Trump because the Dems have yet to pass the legislation you reference? Really?

The only buyer's remorse in evidence are the former Repugs voters who've bailed on the Trump Party in general and especially after January 6th.

Yes, Joe is a bleeping Centrist and old-school in his overly high opinion of the Senate. Yes, bleeping Manchin and Sinema are likewise against dumping the filibuster. None of this is surprising.

But the political popularity of $15 remains and on this matter
I don't see failure being an option for the Dems .

Manchin (D-WV) has suggested a compromise at $11. Support for $15 in West Virginia polls at 63%. The minimum wage in West Virginia is $8.75 and $12.15 in Arizona, and here's a chart
for all 50 states. I couldn't find any polling in Arizona but I did learn that Sinema got elected in Arizona even though she's bisexual! So there's hope for Arizona (which, lest we forget, also went for Biden.)

There are also cracks in GOP resistance: Repugs Romney and Cotton have offered $10, and some Repugs might go higher, per this article from
The Atlantic.

Oh, and I don't doubt that including $15 in Covid Relief was designed to (1) focus Repug attention on it (as you observed) and (2) set up the Repugs as the obstructionist bad guys for when the stand alone vote comes.

I'm sure I'm as Progressive as anyone else here in Weigantia, and I haven't lost hope in Joe to the degree that you seem to have.

Biden seems to want to get as much done as possible especially returning the country to normal from the pandemic. I personally think this is a good strategy. Show competence, get stuff done, don't freak out the moderates. 2022 has 22 republican senate seats up for reelection and only 11 democrats. That is a recipe to pick up seats but only if things return to normal and the republicans don't get some issue to rally around. We narrowly won a battle but not the war. It's not time to get drunk with power, it's time to plan for further gains..

if you can't afford to buy, vote for pie!

"You sound depressed."

Another way to raise the minimum wage is to do it just like it has been done EVERY single time in the past. This also goes for other pieces of the progressive agenda. Simply attach it to a MUST past piece of legislation that forces enough Republicans to hold their nose and vote for the overall package. Examples include: Defense spending appropriations bill, or a bill raising the debt limit ceiling, or a huge infrastructure bill that brings a lot of spending to their district or state ETC. I know of at least two important highway bridge projects that are currently stalled in West Virginia for lack of funding.

That is assuming Democrats like Manchin don't just get tired enough, or pressured by colleagues enough, over Republican obstruction, to do away with the filibuster. Elizabeth Warren was already loudly calling for doing away with the filibuster on the Rachel Maddow show last night, and she's no the only Democratic Senator to say so out loud on the record.

"Why isn't this a state issue?"

It is. States can also raise the minimum wage individually and independently of the federal government.

Here in Florida we passed a state constitutional amendment that will increase the minimum wage by one dollar an hour every September 30 every year beginning this year in 2021, and continuing until it reaches 15 dollars in 2026. After 2026 future increases will be automatic based on inflation.

Bleyd is also from Texas and resides in TX-23 as does Kick.

Let's do a Texas themed Sunday Night Dance Party.

Good idea! Let's do it this Sunday night, then ...

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Elizabeth Miller wrote:

One Sunday Night we'll have to focus on the sounds of Texas ...

I second that! Let's do a Texas themed Sunday Night Dance Party.

Do Democrats just need to narrow the focus?

Right. Because it certainly doesn't make any sense to raise it and surely the people are massively opposed to it, too.

Are you freakin' kidding me!!!???

I mean, seriously!?

I would like to see a 'reconciliation' between two arguments here. One is the argument (today) that Biden and Democrats' failure to push the $15 minimum wage through this week implies their abandonment of the entire progressive agenda, more or less. The other is the argument (past week or so) that if the Dems don't do what it takes to pass some substantially progressive legislation this year they will tank the 2022 election.

I guess the Republican cult of economic failure is alive and well with still no sign of Democrats finally putting a stake through the heart of it.

Sigh.

In Ontario I believe the minimum wage is now $14.75. It was scheduled to be over $15 by now but the Conservatives leading the province now stopped it as soon as they got into office.

Why isn't this a state issue?