lindor, that he is not even hitting .200, my heart is in that. and i m okay with all that. the last question. for real this time. there is a senate race coming up in your state, rob portman, your colleague thaw served with for a long time, he is retiring. what do you make of the race that is shaping up and the political context in your state in advance of that? well, it s a race we can win. we ran with a sharp dignity and work message. you never compromise of marriage equality or choice or opposition to the nra. you talk about minimal wage and work and the overtime rule and cutting child poverty. there are five republicans in the race, i think, if that count is right. and they all remind me of kids on a playground sticking their tongue out at each other saying trump loves me more than he loves you. it s something to watch in ohio. the extremism and just getting in line for trump in ways that still is astounding in this country, and i watch it up close, and it breaks my
early due to covid. the question is what s the league s plan going forward and will other sports have to do the same? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that maybe could use a holiday pause. i m jonathan lemire on this tuesday, december 21st. senator from west virginia joe manchin is speaking out on why he rejected the president s build back better plan. he said in a radio program the democrats never came around to his decision. surely we could badger and beat one person, certainly we could get enough protesters to make him uncomfortable enough that they ll just say, okay, i ll vote for anything just quit. he told senators in private conversations he was concerned parents would use their child credit tax care payments to buy drugs two. sawyerss say manchin also raised concerns over paid time off telling colleagues he feared west virginians would use the time to go deer hunting. a spokesman for senator manchin said,
president again today, to try to break the gridlock over the three and a half trillion dollar social spending bill. and a bipartisan infrastructure bill, the house is expected to vote on the bipartisan bill tomorrow, liberal democrats say they won t sign on to this, unless it advances at the same time is the larger bill. which right now is unlikely. is there any chance that you pull the bill tomorrow? the plan is to bring the bill to the floor. are you worry that you may not have the votes? one hour at a time. don t stop us if you ve heard this before, but democratic senators joe manchin and kristen cinema, have not budged in their spending bill. despite multiple meetings with biden and his aides. today manchin issued his latest statement, explaining his position. it reads in part, spending trillions more a new and expanded government programs, when we can t even pay for the essential social programs like social security and medicare is the definition of fiscal insa
two others competing forces. one is the fact that, due to the nature of american polarization, divided government, the structural advantage that republicans now, holding national elections, democrats can expect to control the white houses and both houses and both houses of congress maybe every ten years. like once a decade. they really get a chance to pass their agenda. so that is one pressure point. the other is that, we are already at one degree celsius of permanent global warming. we need to very rapidly cartel admissions, to avoid increasing to another half degree or two. and this is the one shot to pass a climate bill. that s something the democrats remember tried the last time they had unified power, in 2009 and ten. and it didn t have been. and guess what, things got much worse over the next ten years. and the rate at which we have the deployment eyes, has increased dramatically. so democrats have one chance, for a substantial climate package right now. where they ca
decision from nineteen seventy three. the very same peoplee who consider the bill of rightsl a racist relic quickly dismissed out of hand those same people quickly become emotional as they describe the sublime bec beauty of roe versus wade yesterday when democratic officeholder described the roe decision as quote sacred. and it s not an overstatement for many democratsan it is sacred.ea they will tell youn and they mean itt that this country cannot continue without roe, without roe darkness willme america revert to slavery and cannibalism and other varieties of hobbesian miseryni so gruesome they re best left on described between a bright new tomorrow and the of the handmaid s tale stands only roe v.ta wade. they re telling you that on channels right now across the spectrum s it s all pretty bewildering if you consider what roe v. y wade actually is and that is true no matter, what you think of abortion itself, whether you re strongly for legal abortion, the decision as a dec