SCOTUS and Sinema have reset Biden again

Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) Delivered another blow to President Biden’s agenda. Hers Fourth Reaffirmation that she opposes changing the Senate’s filtering rules to remove the 60-vote threshold for most bills that would void Democrats’ voting rights unless Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (DN. Y.) can pull a rabbit out of his hat.

One reason the party turned to voting law after it failed to pass Biden’s social welfare spending bill, the Build Back Better program, is that even if nothing Democrats can do, little At least they can blame the Republicans. The message is all set for the midterms later this year: Republicans refuse to support the right to vote and repeatedly thwart Biden. It was Republicans who demanded these ballot bills in the first place given former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election and restrictive election laws being passed in the states. Red.

Now that notification won’t play. Instead, the focus is once again on the Democratic divide. Biden can’t even hand Sinema and her centrist colleague Senator Joe Manchin (DW.Va.) when it matters, so the Republican unanimous opposition cannot be blamed for The Washington trader’s incompetence is praised.

On the same day Sinema resolved that frustration, the Supreme Court rejected Biden’s COVID vaccine or test mandate for large private employers. Given previous judicial failures, not even pen and phone could salvage the rule, another blow to the president’s agenda. And elections that could erase razor-thin Democratic majorities are fast approaching.

All of these failures stem from the same basic error: Biden tried to run as if he had a large congressional majority, when in reality he was in the Republican Manchin or Sinema control the Senate. (The Democrats’ majority in the House of Representatives isn’t much larger, but the speaker would easily rule that room with an iron fist.)

The composition of Congress demands that the Democrats be fully united so Biden can accomplish anything, but Wednesday was a reminder Biden often lacks even that. He may not have much to show for his New Deal dreams, especially if 2022 continues as it has begun.