The Senate passed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act on Saturday after over 24 hours of Vote-a-Rama, which will almost undoubtedly be the biggest legislative package of progressive welfare and stimulus spending ever created and will hopefully help folks get through the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is truly an incredible legislative accomplishment worth celebrating.  And yet, a Democratic President and several Democratic Senators still managed to make everyone upset by letting a $15 an hour minimum wage provision get stripped out by deciding not to overrule an unelected Senate Parliamentarian.

"Why are you so mad?" ask many of the smarmy pundits and politics knowers. "You can't just make things happen in politics by willing it into existence - the President and those Senators aren't like, Green Lanterns"

Eric and Jackson dig into how Democrats tarnished what is otherwise a great and important piece of legislation by allowing the president and Joe Manchin (among others) to sabotage the $15 minimum wage, why the huge dorks who use the "Green Lantern Theory of Politics" strawman are total dopes and losers, reveal Eric's alternative theory - the Dr. Eggman Theory of Governance - and explain how deeply disappointed we are in the several U.S. Senators who let us all down (and praise the ones who didn't).

Also enjoy, interludes about getting the Senate parliamentarian to do whatever you want them to do, how it's well past time for Nebraska to elect some offensive linemen to the Senate,  and Jackson cussing a lot about pundits he doesn't like and also everything else. 

Class is *clap clap* in session