Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Tuesday November 2nd 2021.

It's election day in America. I'm John Pajor. It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always senior writer Christine Rose and high Christine.

Hi John associated editor Noa Raffin. Hi John and executive editor A Greenwald. Hi, A.

Hi John. Okay, so the other day I said I quoted Casey Stangle the legendary baseball manager who at the end of his career

managed the expansion New York Mets which was the worst team in baseball history in its first year and Stangle in exasperation in September as they were heading toward a 40 and 120 records said can't anybody here play this game.

Once again the Democrats in the House and in the Senate and the Democratic Party in general facing this gigantic ambitious effort to pass to gigantic ambitious spending bills.

The party is behaving like a bunch of amateur lunatics so much so that I keep trying to say to myself okay look this is a major political party in the United States.

It's full of smart people they're very able everybody that we're talking about got themselves elected to office sometimes under difficult circumstances they know what they're doing but I strain to see what happened yesterday.

And if you don't know what happened yesterday we'll get into the we'll get into the weeks but I strain to understand how you can look at this and say that this isn't the most self destructive amateurish and frankly,

the only destabilizing behavior for a political party that basically holds all the cards in Washington Noah let's talk about what progressive caucus chief from milligia Paul said yesterday and then the response and then what happened after she said what she said.

Well, as in so far as I am familiar with the machinations that are going on in on Capitol Hill it seems like you're more familiar with them but what I know is,

where mon closet's on in coalition the of police.

a very unsatisfying emerging narrative that Democrats are latching on to, that the only

reason why they're in electoral, dire electoral straits is because they haven't passed massive

sweeping social legislation that changes the American civic compact forever. I don't buy

that, but it's something that is beginning to lubricate the gears it seems like in Washington.

Now, does Jayapal speak for her caucus? All of them? Probably not, but that doesn't seem

to matter because it's all theater because the bill doesn't exist. It does not exist.

And they're still negotiating it. As of last night, late last night, one of the conference,

because this is a reconciliation process. So every committee gets the bite at the rapal

and they produce their piece of the legislations complicated, whatever, but they produce their

piece of the legislation. That's what it gets voted on. And one of the conference chairs,

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