it s a great question, obviously as you said in the, opening it was not what they would ve liked. when nancy pelosi said there s gonna be a vote of money, there was not a vote on monday. then she said there be a vote on, thursday there was not a vote on thursday. they re supposed to be a vote on friday. there is not a vote on friday. because in fact they don t have the votes, and this is the fundamental tension here between the great aspirations of the democratic party, and the constrain majorities they have actually have to work. with president biden was quoted today is telling the democrats in that meeting, that they have fdr in lbj like ambitions, but they don t have lbj or lbj majorities. they literally cannot spare a single democrat. you have a 50 vote caucus, as the majority in the senate, we are lying on a tie breaking vote a vice president. it means the one senator is most reluctant to go along with your agenda, gets to control how far you are able to go. that s just the real
there wasn t a vote on monday. she said there was going to be vote on thursday, there s not a vote on friday. because in fact they don t have the votes. and this is, you know, the fundamental tension here between the great aspirations of the democratic party and the constrained majorities they actually have to work with, right? president biden was quoted today as telling the democrats in that meeting that they have fdr and lbj-like ambitions but they don t have lbj or fdr majorities. they literally can t spare a single member. when you have a 50-vote caucus in the senate what that means is the one senator who s the most reluctant to go along with your agenda gets to control how far you re able to go. so will it matter for president biden in the long run, we don t know the answer yet. if they get something through probably nobody will remember how messy it was to get through. we don t remember how messy it was to get through the tax cuts