Dana Milbank in the Washington Post sums it up neatly and puts a bow on it:
It’s beginning to feel like 2010 all over again.
Back then, congressional Democrats unanimously supported a sweeping overhaul of the health-care system. But while Democrats haggled over differences (Public option? Single payer? Universal or near-universal coverage?) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) waited in vain for GOP cooperation, Republicans made wild claims about death panels, health-care rationing and granny killing. Democrats got clobbered in the year’s midterms.
Now, congressional Democrats agree — unanimously! — that they should pass a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure bill to improve roads and bridges and extend high-speed Internet coast to coast. Democrats agree — also unanimously! — that they should enact the substantial portion of President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda to improve education, health and the planet. But while Democrats squabble over relatively minor differences in how much to spend over how long a time, Republicans have again gone demagogic, raising phony threats about socialism, trillions of dollars of additional debt and a Gestapo-like IRS.
Democrats can’t counter the slander or sell the (broadly popular) plan, because they haven’t finalized the details. And as Democrats dither, Biden is bleeding out; his support has dropped into the low 40s.
Yes, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is good at herding cats but these are feral and turned rabid, turning on their own.
Yes, there is the often quoted Will Rogers line: “I don’t belong to any organized political party. I am a Democrat.” But humor doesn’t stop the march of right-wing fascism.
Yet we have the likes of the Squad, Manchin, Sinema, all on their own personal agendas. The country be damned, they only seem to care about their most ardent, and vocal supporters, and of course their biggest donors.
Do they collectively care about the planet, our country, me, you?!
Do they know there are midterms coming and there could be a political bloodbath. Maybe some of them will feel it personally! Certainly if we lose the House and/or Senate. Welcome to the back of the room.
Do they want Trump back to finish the job?! Because that is exactly where we are headed!
And of course there are the media vultures gleefully feeding on Democratic carcasses.
Is the end near? By our own hand! Who fiddles as our country burns?
Shakespeare said, "A pox on both your houses." I say, A pox on all your houses!!!