After two full months of uncertainty the American public finally knows that Joe Biden will be taking the oath of office on January 20. The hotly contested Senate run off race in Georgia is also over with the result that Democrats have control of the Senate. That has the progressive left expecting to push their agenda on America with ease, but they’re about to find it won’t be as easy as they think.
Far-left agenda won’t fly
Now that Democrats have a razor thin advantage in the Senate, the handlers of Joe Biden expect their radical climate change agenda to get greased through congress. The only snag is that they seem to have a DINO problem.
Some of the saner proposals have a chance, and department nominees should breeze through the Senate, now that the split is an even 50-50 and Kamala Harris can be counted on to break any ties.
Where Democrats are getting nervous is that to advance their agenda, they need approval of their “moderate” members for a change.
Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona realizes she represents far-right conservatives at home and only has her seat because nobody trusted Martha McSally. She may have began her career in the Green Party but in 2019, Govtrack called Sinema the “most politically right” Democratic senator.
Another Democrat in Name Only is Senator Joe Manchin who hails from the state of West Virginia.
His state is kept alive by the coal industry so the Green New Deal isn’t real high on his agenda. He’s ranked the third most conservative Democrat in the country. Second is Doug Jones of Alabama.
A divided Senate
Mitch McConnell, aka “Tooter Turtle,” won’t be Majority Leader any longer. That means any uncontroversial vote on the agenda that only needs a simple majority will probably pass right through.
Problems set in on the ones that Senators disagree over because they’ll have to scrape up a 60 percent count. The filibuster won’t be going away any time soon because Senators like Manchin gain too much of a strategic advantage by being the holdout votes. It gives the moderates leverage for concessions from the radical progressives.
Reducing car emissions has a good chance of passing, along with provisions on the agenda to make more rare earth minerals available domestically for batteries and renewable energy uses.
When it comes to Joe Biden’s $2 trillion global warming scheme to virtually strap tanks on farm animals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, that doesn’t stand a chance.
The experts agree. Climate adviser George David Banks tells radical progressives to put down the crack pipe. “You’re not going to reach agreement on issues like a price on carbon anytime soon.”
Analyst Kevin Book with ClearView Energy Partners agrees. “A thin blue Senate could make it easier to pass a bigger green stimulus package, but carbon taxation and climate legislation still look to be out of bounds.” Those won’t be on the agenda any time soon.
