So yes, I think Biden, as painful as this is, should find his way to stepping down as a hero.
Ezra Klein
Pundit
You’re seeing Joe Biden and the Democrats try and pass bills, to expand and deepen democracy in this country.
If you want to know who ultimately killed the filibuster, it is 100 percent Mitch McConnell because he disabused every single Democrat of the belief that you can pass anything with 60.
I really wish Senator Schumer, Majority Leader Schumer, all the success in the world with this. But I really, really wish Senators Manchin and Sinema would do their duty, and make the senate functional, again.
If Mitch McConnell and the Republicans are even going to block the resolution to put the Senate together this year, then, of course, they would support the budget -- I’m sorry, the nuclear option in order to get rid of the filibuster even…
Democrats have no room for error. They have 50 seats in the Senate. If they lose one in 2022, they have no more governing capacity or at least not through the legislature.
The way to stop the next Donald Trump is to show that when Democrats are governing, people`s lives are actually better.
There is a story President Trump used to tell when he was on the campaign trail in 2016. It's terrible and there are a bunch of versions of, the scorpion version. But he called it the snake version.