In an Tiger Beat on the Potomac's Playbook today, they document the amazing level of narcissism and butt-hurt exhibited by the Republican wing of the Democratic Party:
FRUSTRATION WITH BIDEN: Moderate Democrats expected Biden to start twisting House progressives’ arms during their White House meeting last week. But we’re told by sources in the progressive camp and another senior Democratic aide that the president has neither asked progressives to drop their demand that the reconciliation bill pass in tandem with BIF, nor pressed them to accept a stand-alone vote on BIF [Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework] this week — at least not yet. This has infuriated moderates.
“The president needs to pick up the phone and call people,” the moderate source close to the talks told us. The person argued that the White House has been in “listening mode” for too long and needs to bang heads to get this vote over the finish line this week.
What they don't get is that Biden thinks that the larger spending bill is more important to achieving his agenda than is the smaller bill.
They are upset that Biden is not actively sabotaging himself to accommodate their selfish, and quite frankly self-destructive, proclivities. (When the reckoning comes for do-nothing Democrats, the do-nothing Dems in the Blue Dog and New Dem caucuses get hit hardest.)
Biden doesn't have to bang heads, because by not doing so, it's the moderates faces who get eaten by leopards.
F%$# them with Cheney's dick.
H/t Atrios.
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