Wow

Peter Navarro saying wtf I love Biden now

If I recall, this is precisely what they did on FRA--wait to demonstrate that Rs were on the verge of failure and then out-vote them en masse as a flourish once leadership gives the high sign.

Sadly, you do in fact need to say Joe Biden's name to persuade voters to vote for him. No cheat codes or shortcuts here.

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And now that the rule is adopted, the pressure is off and the low stakes vote no/hope yes posturing can begin. None of the four bills will have any trouble getting 218, though the majority coalitions will look quite different for each.

As mad as these guys are about Ukraine, going down this road with immigration involved would have been truly nuclear.

In retrospect, canceling recess was probably the single biggest miscalculation he made, over and above the Sunday show stunt, the CR jamming, the Ukraine gamesmanship. And/but to Adam's point the vibes are as good now as they were bad then.

New/different information; new/different responsibility; new/different stakes. It's just a fundamentally job than being a rank and file member that reorients your approach to governance in profound ways. You can be partisan, but you don't have the luxury of being provincial.

The system works

It strikes me that biggest problem Biden has right now is Michigan. Given the polling in the Sun Belt, he likely needs to win it... and right now he simply put is trailing there...

Here's a tally.

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On the question of whether Democrats will vote for the rule – it's almost more accurate to think of it as effectively a bipartisan rule and go from there. The real question is how many Republicans will vote against it.

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The House is now a body that cannot function or pass anything without minority party participation in lawmaking. Just like the Senate. You effectively need a bipartisan supermajority to pass anything of consequence.

FWIW, McCarthy would very likely still be speaker and these same bills would be passing months earlier if he had just committed to Democrats he’d bring them up the same way Johnson is doing now.