o.k. I'm really scratching my head here. The newest push out of the Biden admin is to eliminate the fillibuster (or at least exempt it for this one case) prior to moving through the voting rights act (which already Manchin and Sinema have said they won't do, and several others are on the fence about). Meanwhile, the CDC director is under fire, Fauci is doing his usual combat against the Rs, the Chicago teachers union and several other areas are pushing no school (or no sports), the store shelves in blue cities are running anywhere from Soviet to somewhat bare, inflation is running high, and everyone is getting sick with COVID (despite some people having "done everything right" and triple vaxxed). I really don't get it. Biden campaigned as a moderate who would restore sanity after Trump, but this is some hard core lefty to stuff, and not just hard core lefty stuff (which I'm not opining as to individual policies whether they make sense or don't) but stuff which people don't even really care about now (since a large group of people including some Ds and a lot of independents are really really really really very upset about the wheels coming off on COVID policy which now seems to be everyone is going to get it but let's push it off (for some undisclosed reason) as much as possible). This just isn't good politics so I'm wondering what the intent is....even if it passes the midterms are off the table so the only thing I can conclude is that it's just a long term power grab for 2024 and beyond and they've concluded their chances are so bad that they figure they need to do this (and take the political hit for appearing to be off message with people's real concerns) now or lose their opportunity forever (considering it's a hail mary anyway to begin with!!!). That power grab would have to be so great that it would relegate the Republican party into the wilderness for a generation (since as soon as you get an R president and congress they'll just nuke the fillibuster and undo it all). Mark it in your calendar people: today is the day the wheels came off the Biden admin.