[Blogger's Note: Title borrowed from Maya Angelou]
With Mitch McConnell explicitly stating this week that his only goal in the next two years is to make "100%" sure the Biden Administration fails, and therefore all of America fails, it's fair to wonder just how much longer the likes of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema can continue with their bipartisanship charade. Moscow Mitch, of course, made the same claim when Barack Obama became President, and republicans spent the next four years obstructing everything the Obama Administration did. On the bright side, Obama did cruise to re-election in 2012; on the downside, a lot of good that could have been done for your average American was left in ruins.
Any efforts at bipartisanship are a fool's errand. If Democrats try to appease republicans with smaller spending bills, republicans will still claim they're full of too much largesse. Water down a voting rights bill, and republicans will still blanch at the perceived threat to white power. Getting one republican vote for any bill will be a stretch, let alone the ten needed to proceed to cloture.
Better to let republicans wallow in their own shit and suffer the consequences of not signing on to the extremely popular Infrastructure Bill and the Family Act than to seek a bipartisanship that republicans have no intention of ever providing.
The sooner the likes of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema take McConnell at his word, the better of it will be for America.
It's Not Just an Infrastructure Bill, It's a Jobs Plan, Too
Peace,
emaycee
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