Selling It
Think back to the last time you bought a car. Did the salesperson continue to call or stop by, to convince you it was a good purchase? Probably not. The person might have checked in to see if you liked the car, but not to sell you on it.
Same thing with a furniture store. You bought the couch, got it home…but you don’t expect the sales person to stop by the house and keep convincing you that it was the right fit for the living room, had the desired amount of cushion, etc.
That’s what makes this rather odd road show of Biden Administration officials so unique. If a presidential administration had a major legislative plan that it wanted broad support for, it would do events around the country to get voters excited about it so they would pressure their lawmakers to vote for it.
But this is backwards, with a slim Democrat majority in Congress ramming through a $1.9 trillion spending plan…and now the Administration is travelling the country to, in their own words, sell the plan to the American people.
Obviously this is an attempt to set the narrative about the things they want us to focus on in the bill…the limited percentage tied to COVID relief…as opposed to roads to nowhere or reparations to farmers based on skin color. And of course, they’ll have a willing, formerly-mainstream, media to help tell that story.
But again, why bother? They had the votes, they passed the bill…why back up and do a post-sale, sales pitch? Perhaps they know once the citizens learn what’s in the bill…they’ll be looking to take it back to the return counter at the Congress store.
