For the best, expect the worst, some preach your name, some diopers, the way of knowing which way it's going.

For the best, expect the worst, some preach your name, some diopers, the way of knowing which way it's going.

Hi, John.

Okay, so if you're following the gigantic whoop-de-doo in Washington this week, it's like a time when you are moving and your kid is graduating from high school and your parents are having a 50th anniversary party and there's a hurricane coming.

All at once, so we have the hard infrastructure bill.

We have the reconciliation bill.

We have the debt ceiling and we have the government funding and government shutdown.

All hitting their crisis moments this week in this four-day period.

Today, Monday, September 27th, was supposed to be the day according to the agreement that was struck in August for the House to vote on the hard infrastructure bill, which as people may remember, is the bill that funds actual transportation things and construction projects and passed through the Senate on a filibuster-proof majority.

But is threatened in the House by progressives who do not want to vote for it because they want to use the bill as leverage to force the moderates in their caucus who do want to vote for it.

But don't want to vote for the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill to vote for the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill.

So Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker, is finding herself in a position where she needs to figure out a way to get that bill to the floor and voted on without it being destroyed by members of her own party.

And as she said yesterday, she won't bring a bill to the floor of the House if she doesn't have the votes to pass it.

And she postponed this vote that she promised for this afternoon until Thursday, presumably because she did a whip count and they don't have the votes to pass it.

One piece of legislation in America over the last four years that actually has bipartisan support and leftist Democrats are right now in a position to kill it.

So they don't have the votes today, clearly.

Why do we think they'll have the votes on Thursday? What's going to change? I mean, she just caved to the progressives. She's undermining moderates significantly.

This was their demand and their demand has been sacrificed. So where do these votes come from? What is she put on the table to sweeten the package for progressives now?

Because their demands are entirely contingent on the Senate doing things.

Well, here's one way of looking at it. And Christine, as our resident liberal whisperer, maybe you can help us here.

So I'm a friend of mine who knows who has forgotten more about, you know, sort of like the ins and outs of Democratic caucus politics than I will ever know.

And his point is that we are misunderstanding the depth of Democratic support for the social infrastructure bill.

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