Josh Gottheimer, the ostensible Democrat who represents a Northern New Jersey congressional district jam-packed with Wall Street billionaires, has noted that “even Bernie Sanders” voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill—proof positive, he argues, that the House should take up that bill immediately and blow off the presumably far-left budget plan that the Senate somehow also enacted.
Of course, the same kind of thought process (if thought this be) can yield the conclusion that “even Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema” voted for the $3.5 trillion budget plan, proof positive that the House should take the budget up forthwith.
Gottheimer, who was the subject of an excellent profile on Wednesday by the Prospect’s Alex Sammon, is a protégé of the more retro elements of Bill Clinton’s presidency, and holds the distinction of voting more frequently with House Republicans (34 percent of the time) than any other congressional Democrat.
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