Politics, Senate, House

Craig Martineau
Craig Martineau Writer
4 min readNov 6, 2021

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What games they play

Senate vs House vs President

Have you figured out what is going on?

I have!

The Senate voted and passed the $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill.

Senators Manchin and Sinema wanted the Infrastructure bill.

Senators Manchin and Sinema would not vote for the “soft”

infrastructure. Family leave, healthcare, etc.

The Senate did not want the “soft” infrastructure.

The pundits on TV, press, magazines, etc. were strongly pitting one against the other and further incited fires by preying on and calling out individual Senators to blame from Manchin to Sinema to McConnell. Pelosi? Be patient, please.

Biden sits in the background not saying much except to, apparently, call Manchin and Sinema to the BIG HOUSE for, supposedly, tongue lashings, backside whippings, etc.

Then Pelosi puts 4 weeks of family leave back in the “soft” infrastructure bill, to everyone's amazement.

Pelosi has ALWAYS made a big deal of the fact she would never bring a bill to a vote unless she KNEW it was going to pass.

This morning and as late as a few minutes ago, she added the family leave AND stated the vote would be tonight. She had just blown up the bill by making…

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Craig Martineau
Craig Martineau Writer

Retired. A lifelong love affair with words. I write on Medium, WordPress, Substack with The Lighthouse Blog, and the newsletter "Have you ever wondered...Why?"