{"id":355548,"date":"2021-10-20T05:23:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T02:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/moderate-democrats-all-but-extinct-goodwin\/"},"modified":"2021-10-20T05:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T02:23:22","slug":"moderate-democrats-all-but-extinct-goodwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/moderate-democrats-all-but-extinct-goodwin\/","title":{"rendered":"#Moderate Democrats all but extinct: Goodwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a264ae2d3b71\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a264ae2d3b71\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/moderate-democrats-all-but-extinct-goodwin\/#Blasi-low_ed_standards_nationwide\" >Blasi-low ed. standards nationwide<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/moderate-democrats-all-but-extinct-goodwin\/#No_free_ride_for_MTA\" >No free ride for MTA\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Moderate Democrats all but extinct: Goodwin<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Michael Goodwin\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal wrote Tuesday that President Biden was making another attempt to salvage his stalled legislative agenda by meeting separately with progressive and moderate Democrats.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The next sentence was more telling: The moderates were Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). The progressives were too numerous to mention.<\/p>\n<p>If you get the impression there are only two senators holding back the great flood of government waste known variously as \u201cBuild Back Better and the \u201chuman-infrastructure\u201d package, you\u2019ve got the whole story \u2014 as told by the Washington press corps.<\/p>\n<p>For my money, the much more interesting angle, and far more important to the future of America, is what\u2019s going on with the other 48 Senate Dems. All <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently are on board with the most expensive piece of legislation in history and are happy to be called progressives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The legislation in question was crafted by Sen. Bernie Sanders, and he says the current price of $3.5 trillion is \u201cthe minimum\u201d and \u201calready a compromise.\u201d Much of the bill remains a secret and some parts are still being written.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet the 48 already have said yes. Talk about a blank check.<\/p>\n<p>The math can mean only one thing: the Dems\u2019 civil war is over, with just minor mopping-up operations remaining. The moderates, both of them, are the endangered remnants of a defeated force.<\/p>\n<p>Until he started calling the whole country racist, Joe Biden said he was a moderate, and Chuck Schumer, too. New York\u2019s other senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, was so moderate, she was deemed too conservative for the state when she was appointed to fill Hillary Clinton\u2019s old seat. Now she\u2019s a proud progressive who makes <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> only when she says something especially dumb or outlandish.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern is the same across the nation. Dick Durbin of Illinois, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Michael Bennet of Colorado and Chris Coons of Delaware were all center-left Senate Democrats. Cory Booker was a tough-on-crime mayor of Newark before he joined them and jumped off the cliff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BernieSanders-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Sen. Bernie Sanders \" class=\"wp-image-19858479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BernieSanders-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BernieSanders-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/BernieSanders-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Joe Biden is allowing Sen. Bernie Sanders to fulfill his \u201cminimum\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ist dream of giving a blank check to the Green New Deal.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Either they all had spiritual awakenings or, like human weather vanes, saw which way the wind was blowing and joined the winning side. I\u2019m partial to the weather-vane explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably all these former moderates are fine with the vicious attacks on the two holdouts, who hold positions they all held for years. There\u2019s no precedent to the Sanders bill because it never would have seen the light of day in any other era.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet there is only silence from the 48 as the attacks increasingly aim at bludgeoning Manchin and Sinema into surrender instead of winning them over. Recall that when Sinema was harassed in a public restroom by a far-lefter, Biden called it \u201cpart of the process.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Which process is that?<\/p>\n<p>The attacks also include growing predictions and demands that Manchin or Sinema, or both, leave the party and become independents or Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>How did this happen? When did so many Democrats lose their common sense and embrace the insane policies and tactics of the far left?<\/p>\n<p>Not so many Sulzbergers ago, The New York Times would have asked and tried to answer those seminal questions. After all, when one of the nation\u2019s two main political parties changes its s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>es in such dramatic fashion, that\u2019s what used to be called a helluva story. It reflects culture as well as politics.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/NewYorkTimes.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Headquarters of The New York Times\" class=\"wp-image-19858514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/NewYorkTimes.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/NewYorkTimes.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/NewYorkTimes.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The New York Times has been villianifying Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin in their mission to sell President Joe Biden\u2019s $3.5 trillion bill.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Kyodo News\/Sipa USA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No more. Now the Times is the enforcer of progressive orthodoxy and has been scorching Manchin and Sinema on its front page, demanding they stop resisting and get with the Biden-Sanders program.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what happens when a newspaper stops being a newspaper and becomes a radical activist.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, the paper dispatched reporters to West Virginia and Arizona to find people who aren\u2019t happy with the holdouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A late September Page 1 hit job called Sinema \u201cstubbornly centrist\u201d and opened with three paragraphs about how a former supporter turned against her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really feels like she does not care about her voters,\u201d the paper quoted the former supporter as saying. \u201cI will never vote for her again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What that voter really represents is the Times\u2019 opinion. That\u2019s not news. It\u2019s propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>A Monday piece by the paper\u2019s fashion critic about how the senator dresses was headlined \u201cDecoding Kyrsten Sinema\u2019s Style.\u201d It called her an \u201cobstructionist\u201d for objecting to the $3.5 trillion bill. At the Times, even fashion critics are free to voice their political \u00adopinions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/WestVirginia.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Workers operate a drill rig at a gas well plugging site in Roan County, West Virginia.\" class=\"wp-image-19858558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/WestVirginia.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/WestVirginia.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/WestVirginia.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Progressives are ignoring the fact that oil production is a top job producer in West Virginia.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Dane Rhys<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Because Sinema is a bisexual woman, I tried to imagine how the Gray Lady would have exploded if a conservative publication had run the same piece about Sinema\u2019s clothes and linked them to her \u00adpolicies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Manchin is also getting rough treatment, though his fashion choices haven\u2019t been critiqued. His sin is his objection to a $150 billion provision of the Sanders\u2019 bill incentivizing clean electricity, a decision that was the top story in Saturday\u2019s Times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s follow-up went for the knockout, with another front-page headline on the same subject. This one screamed \u201cBlocking Climate Plan with Hometown at Risk\u201d as the subhead added, \u201cManchin Protects Coal Economy as Floods Swamp His State.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So Manchin is a traitor to his state for not supporting a bill to end the coal industry and hobble all fossil-fuel production. Two facts: Those industries are top job producers in West Virginia, and the people of the state elected Manchin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But democracy is worth saving only when it delivers the results the left demands. And dissent is patriotic only when the Times approves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s progressive privilege, but definitely not progress.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Blasi-low_ed_standards_nationwide\"><\/span>Blasi-low ed. standards nationwide<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Reader Antoinette Cennamo, a retired teacher, disapproves of Mayor de Blasio\u2019s attempt to end Gifted &amp; Talented programs, but warns that dumbing down education is happening everywhere.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>She writes: \u201cSuburban schools don\u2019t eliminate those programs because that would enrage parents. They simply make admission open to all. Some suburban districts enroll their entire eighth grade classes in ninth-grade math courses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEducators and parents endorse high standards out of concern that low standards would handicap students in college. However, except for some competitive math\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> programs, college education consists of dumbed down political indoctrination. The sad, bizarre truth may be that our mayor\u2019s idiotic attitude is the appropriate stance toward achieving what passes for success in our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"No_free_ride_for_MTA\"><\/span>No free ride for MTA\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The MTA keeps blaming a contractor for the failure to open its new bus command center. The building sits unused 2\u00b9\/\u2082 years after construction was completed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A top agency official told board members Monday the work of the Parsons Transportation Group had \u201clots of quality issues,\u201d citing \u201cdefective\u201d cable harnesses on thousands of buses.<\/p>\n<p>Parsons denies the charge, but even if true, it also must be true that there was a failure of supervision and quality control by the MTA itself. Otherwise, how could such large and important issues go undetected for so long?\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). 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