Battenfeld: Arrogant liberals forget who won the White House

Arrogant liberal Democrats seem to forget who won the 2020 election.

Did we miss something? Is President Bernie Sanders or President Elizabeth Warren in office?

You’d think so considering how Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Squad” and Sanders and leading liberals activists are approaching the stalemate over Democrats’ $3.5 trillion social spending overhaul and a $1.2 trillion public works package.

Here’s what the deluded and power hungry Sanders said on Sunday about the massively expensive “reconciliation” spending bill now clogged up in Congress.

“Maybe the time is now for us to stand up to powerful special interests who are currently spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to prevent us from doing what the American people want,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Really? Is that what the American people really wanted when they voted to crush you and Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaigns last year?

Here’s a little reminder. Democratic voters overwhelmingly chose the moderate Joe Biden over Sanders and Warren. They voted for centrist compromise — not threats and gridlock.

In a meeting with members of Congress last week, Biden reportedly dialed down the social spending package to about $2 trillion — which Sanders strongly denied.

“That is not my understanding of what (Biden) said,” Sanders insisted.

Of course not. Because you’re always right, Bernie. That’s why you won the nomination.

Sanders and some of his cohorts, who are now holding up the $1 trillion infrastructure bill, just don’t get the whole, “moderates” thing. They don’t realize that there are tens of millions of them around the country.

In fact liberals dislike moderates so much that they want to purge them from the lexicon.

First, liberals got the mainstream media to get rid of the word “liberals” because it was being weaponized by the opposition. So the media limply went along and started referring to them as “progressives” — a much more positive sounding word.

Now “progressive” groups are complaining that the media should stop calling Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., “moderates” — they want to use the term “conservative” Democrats. And there is a move afoot to slime and shame them. Sinema is reduced to a buffoonish “Saturday Night Live” caricature.

The truth is that Manchin and Sinema are centrists who are ostracized because they’re not part of the cool “progressive” kids who want to spend $3.5 trillion on global warming initiatives and social safety net programs.

They are so uncool they don’t get to wear “tax the rich” gowns at lavish events filled with rich people.

But Manchin and Sinema have one thing that Sanders craves and doesn’t have — the support of most of the American people.

from Boston Herald https://ift.tt/3FbiMxc