What Could Go Wrong?

The current situation for the Democrats is bringing me back to my corporate days. Time after time, deadlines are slipping, customers are getting fed up, but Mahogany Row is just holding crisis management meetings with nothing coming out of them. That's when I began to learn it was time to update my resume.

Facing growing unrest in the Democrat party, President Joe Biden plans to host meetings at the White House on Wednesday to save his $5 trillion domestic spending agenda.

First, Biden will meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to discuss his $1.5 trillion infrastructure deal that has passed the Senate, his partisan $3.5 trillion climate and entitlement bill, and a continuing resolution to raise the debt limit and fund the government.

Well, I've been there. The big deadline comes on Monday, September 27, when Speaker Pelosi is supposed to hold a vote on the $1.5 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, without which Sen Sinema won't support the $3.5 billion bill, and without which the House moderates won't support it, either, except the House leftists want that bill tied to the big one, which the others don't want.

Back when I worked in tech, I'd see the same thing, the customer is expecting the big project to be delivered next Monday, but I know full well it's not half done -- but the bosses promise everyone's gonna work all weekend to finish it. So I have to come in Saturday anyhow, and lo and behold, nobody's there. The first time I saw this, I was pretty upset. I couldn't imagine how anyone could allow this to happen. But of course, it did. A couple of bosses would get fired in advance of the whole company closing its doors. I just got used to it, always have an updated resume off site at all times.

I guess this might be called Bruce's Law. When there's a life-or-death deadline just days away, if the bosses say they'll work all weekend to fix it, all they're doing is buying a few more days of same old-same old. It's the "then a miracle occurs" in the plan. I'm not the only one who suspects this is coming:

Radicals are holding the infrastructure bill hostage, demanding the $3.5 trillion budget bill be voted on first. That’s not going to happen. The bill is just too big and too complicated to get done before the deadline of September 27 to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill agreed to by Nancy Pelosi and moderate House Democrats.

They're gonna work all weekend to fix it.

One reason employers don't like to hire older workers is they've been around the block a few too many times.