about wanting to pick the first african-american woman justice and no reason to think he s not going to do that but remember who made joe biden president in no small part. african-american voters. without jim clyburn and his victory in the south carolina primary and tushrning out in lae numbers. he needs their support, support among that group as he has among the whole democratic place, and an opportunity to pick that back up. and so any resuminations fro the republicans but there are politics here is, a slim majori. can biden and democrats pull this off on the timeline they re talking about? oh my gosh, if they can t, they re in deep trouble. jim, this is plenty of time before an election. 200 plus days. long before the 2024 election but they need to get this done
know that the calendar is not on their side. senator mccaskill can tell you how things tend to slow down in washington in the summertime. members go home, there s a lot of recess time, campaigning time. that momentum that president biden had coming out of the inauguration and through the spring could begin to dissipate over the summer if they don t take advantage of what they have right now. well, senator, you heard the man. let s go there. and by doing so, i ll give you the last word. talk about your party, talk about what happens, say, if the republicans don t go along with the 1/6 commission. are the democrats doing enough, quickly enough, taking enough advantage of their albeit slim majori majorities? there are two things going on at once here. there is a very public and important effort to make this bill bipartisan. the infrastructure bill.