Chuck Schumer Vows to Throw a Fit Over ‘Build Back Better’ and Screw His Own Members in the Process – Opinion

As RedState has reported on extensively, the so-called “Build Back Better” bill is currently dead. Joe Manchin put the final nail in the coffin and announced that he would not support the bill this weekend. Since then the seething and coping has been amusing, with Bernie Sanders ranting.

But that’s all these Democrats can do. To get their agenda through, they have no other options. Chuck Schumer has vowed to make his fellow members unhappy by his rantings at the sky.

Schumer informs Senate Dems that they will vote for BBB in the early part of next year so everyone is on record. Also:
“We are going to vote on a revised version of the House-passed Build Back Better Act – and we will keep voting on it until we get something done.” pic.twitter.com/kVLQGWBCAG

— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) December 20, 2021

So Schumer’s big plan is to force a vote that will fail? But while some may say that it’s smart for the Democrats to get people on record, is it really?

The dirty little secret about the BBB bill is that it wasn’t only opposed by Manchin. Kyrsten Sinema, last I checked was also a no. But there are red- and purple-state Democrats who absolutely don’t want to be forced onto the ballot for this monstrosity. For months, Manchin has provided them cover they didn’t deserve. Still, he seemed content to be the fall guy given he’s from West Virginia.

Schumer now threatens to name these senators, while seemingly gaining nothing at the end. Going into 2022, the Republican campaign ads will be written by themselves.

If Manchin wants to be brought back to the table somehow, then how can poking the bear achieve that goal? If anything, these games by Schumer will only harden Manchin’s opposition. And while it may play well with the progressives, it’s not going to get them any closer to accomplishing what they want to accomplish.

In other words, there’s no actual strategy here. Schumer is simply trying to please the far left base of his party. And it’s that insistence on prioritizing a small segment of the political population that put Democrats in this position in the first place. They never should have tried to enact “transformational” change in a 50-50 US Senate. It was absurd. FDR received the New Deal’s equivalent to a 75-25 Senate majority. There’s just no comparison.

Yet, the urge to please the “squad” and make the Bernie Bros squee has become the entire personality of the Democrat Party. They had to be rational, approve some judges, pass the child tax credit and make a profit by 2022. They went insane and are now suffering the consequences.