Yahoo news has the story: AOC lowers expectations on Medicare for All, admitting Sanders 'can't wave a magic wand' to pass it.
AOC is quoted saying;
The worst-case scenario? We compromise deeply and we end up getting a public option. Is that a nightmare? I don’t think so,” she said.”
But why is she saying this, and why right now?
Could it be that the Progressive left leaders now understand that their pie-in-the sky proposals are turning off more Democratic voters then they are turning them on?
Could it be that Bloomberg and Klobuchar are moving up as Biden falls. If Bloomberg makes Wednesday’s debate (or not) one can sure M4A will come up.
During January’s Democratic presidential debate in Iowa, Sen. Amy Klobuchar also threw cold water on the likelihood of Sanders’s plan becoming law.
“Over two-thirds of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate are not on the bill that [Sanders] and Sen. Warren are on,” Klobuchar said. “You have numerous governors that are Democratic that don’t support this.”
Axios has a piece, today: Reality check on Bernie Sanders’ biggest ideas.
The piece names 10 of Sanders’s biggest and most expensive proposals. The bottom line is that they are too expensive and would never get through congress, even a Democratic one.
Axios has a second piece, today, on the chances of passing into law Sanders’s expensive agenda: Bernie Sanders’ pipe dreams
- Internal Democratic divisions would threaten his ability to get even a bare Senate majority for them, let alone ram them through the expected wall of Republican opposition, according to moderate Democratic senators, Democratic aides and Axios experts.
- "He’s not gonna get that," said Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, one of the moderate Democrats whose support Sanders would need. "Bernie has a little different, unusual approach to fixing [the country’s problems], more so than what I could be acceptable with."
- And that assumes he could get them through the House without major substantive changes — which is no sure thing either.
- Meanwhile, some establishment Democrats worry that nominating Sanders would sink their chances of recapturing the Senate — and shrink or cost their majority in the House.
Axios summarizes saying:
Sanders’ supporters aren’t wired to obsess about arcane Senate rules, a parliamentarian’s feelings or other Washington insider issues. But they will care if they vote Sanders into the White House expecting a revolution and find themselves wondering what's taking so long.
Before there is a blitz of comments why M4A is a really great idea, affordable, that all Americans support it, please ask yourself why is AOC lowering expectations on Medicare for All, at this time? Maybe she saw what it did to Elizabeth Warren’s chances...