Weekend Quotables
Biden got his watered-down Infrastructure Bill passed with Republican help and a pinky promise to progressives to get something done on Build Back Better by next week.
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis)
“The whole day was a clusterfuck, right?” said senior progressive Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), who helped negotiate the rapprochement with the moderates. — Politico
Rep. ‘Chuy’ Garcia
“I took this vote with my colleagues in the Progressive Caucus to begin that process, with the word of the President and a signed commitment from moderate Democrats to pass the Build Back Better Act out of the House no later than the week of November 15.” — Release
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
"It's already so stripped down, but there are still huge landmark investments in this [bill]. But if we don't deliver the Build Back Better Act on climate, we will have done virtually nothing.” — Business Insider
Ja'han Jones @_Jahan
"The Youngkin campaign discovered that a contingent of angry, willfully ignorant white people was the key ingredient needed to elect a GOP governor in Virginia for the first time since 2009." — MSNBC
Packers QB Aaron Rodgers
"I realize I'm in the crosshairs of the woke mob." — CBS News
Pres. Joe Biden
“The Ortega and Murillo family now rule Nicaragua as autocrats, no different from the Somoza family that Ortega and the Sandinistas fought four decades ago.” — AP
—I must remind Pres. Biden, that the U.S. fully supported the brutal and corrupt Somoza dictatorship and helped keep them in power for four decades. The CIA supplied the Contras with training and equipment, including materials related to torture and assassination, as well as engaging in drug trafficking in Nicaragua.— M.K.
