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