9 House Democrats threaten budget reconciliation

Continuing the last post, these* nine corporate Dems are now threatening to tank the bi-partisan infrastructure Bill if it is not passed now, prior to the final legislation proposed in the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation. This is exactly the opposite of what the House progressives demanded: That the reconciliation Bill must be passed in tandem with the infrastructure package or no deal. This is a clear distinction between the corporate and the progressive wings in the Party. Who will win this stand-off?

PS: I heard Thom Hartmann say on his program today that the real reason behind the corporatist ire (including Manchin and Sinema) is that part of the reconciliation proposal deals with transparency in political contribution reporting, in essence eliminating the current anonymous 'dark' tactic corrupting our system. Unfortunately it won't eliminate the corrupt money but at least it will make transparent who is buying whom and for what.

* Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, Carolyn Bourdeaux of Georgia, Filemon Vela of Texas, Jared Golden of Maine, Henry Cuellar of Texas, Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, Ed Case of Hawaii, Jim Costa of California and Kurt Schrader of Oregon.