Who're They Trying To Kid?

What I learned from workling for incompetent tech bosses was that past a certain point, their credibility was shot with everyone. and they were either out the door, transferred, demoted, or kicked upstairs. Usually, though, that point was too late to save the business. It's starting to look as if Speaker Pelosi and President Biden have reached a similar point.

Over the weekend, she set a new "deadline" of October 31 to pass the infrastruceure bill (BIF).

In a "Dear Colleague" letter released on Saturday, Pelosi said that “more time was needed” to pass the infrastructure bill along with the larger, $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package after scrambling over the past two days to get enough votes.

. . . “There is an October 31st Surface Transportation Authorization deadline, after last night’s passage of a critical 30-day extension,” Pelosi wrote. “We must pass BIF [bipartisan infrastructure framework] well before then – the sooner the better, to get the jobs out there.”

What does she mean by "well before" October 31? The problem is that after the Friday session, the House is in recess until October 19. which leaves less than two weeks to reach this agreement. As far as anyone could tell, the past two weeks showed a great flury of feckless activity from the Speaker with no actual progress. How will this change over the next two-week period?

Will President Biden be any better equipped to solve the impasse on, say, October 30 than he was last Friday? His plans seem to be eqaully vague and unrealistic.

Speaking with reporters Saturday, Biden pledged to "work like hell" to get both the bipartisan and reconciliation infrastructure bills passed as his ambitious domestic agenda hangs in the balance.

. . . "There is no reason why both these bills couldn't pass independently except that there's not the votes to do it that way," Biden said.

. . . "There's nothing in any of these pieces of legislation that's radical, that is unreasonable that is--when you look at it, individually."

The problem is, of course, that the leftist Democrat faction will not allow the legislation to be looked at individually. We're caught somewhere between MFU1 and MFU2. I still like Stein's Law: That which cannot continue must stop.