Just curious, since talking about these things after they happen doesn’t tend to get me anywhere:
Now that the CBO has said the cost score for the other bill won’t be ready by 11/15, and given that the “moderate” Democrats’ pledge was that they would vote for it after they had the score, but no later than 11/15, which now can’t happen, and given that in any event their statement was very ambiguous about what information they were waiting for and under what circumstances that information would be sufficient…
if this is the first step in a process that results in the kind of administrative purgatory that has killed many a bill before this one, and the progressives ultimately don’t get the Build Back Better bill that they held out for and purportedly secured an agreement on, were they still in the wrong for holding out? Yes, right? It doesn’t matter what happens with the second bill, they should have just gone with the rest of the party? There’s no way they could have expected this kind of bureaucratic trash fire, so it doesn’t carry any significance to their political tactics if it does turn out that way?