How Republicans will try to destroy a Biden presidency

[Nevilledog]

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@ThePlumLineGS
This is a huge tell. A GOP strategist tells Bloomberg that Senate Republicans don't want a big stimulus bill now because they want to pivot hard to austerity under a Biden presidency, which could cripple it. No wonder McConnell is laughing. New piece:

Opinion | How Republicans will try to destroy a Biden presidency
An anonymous GOP strategist makes a strikingly candid admission.
washingtonpost.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/14/how-republicans-will-try-destroy-biden-presidency/

As you’ve heard, Wolf Blitzer and Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had a very contentious exchange on Tuesday, in which the CNN anchor demanded to know why the House Speaker was not prepared to support the White House’s offer of a $1.8 trillion stimulus package.

“Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” Blitzer told Pelosi, thus seeming to suggest that the real holdup to any deal is Democratic opposition.

But new reporting from Bloomberg News strongly suggests another angle worth investigating, if the goal is to truly get to the bottom of what might end up holding up an agreement.

And this angle points to an even bigger story: how Republicans may already be laying the groundwork to try to destroy a Joe Biden presidency, should he win the election.

The short version: A Senate GOP strategist privately confided to Bloomberg that a key Republican goal right now is to lay the groundwork to revert hard to austerity, should Biden prevail, crippling the possibility of any serious stimulus efforts next year, even amid continued economic misery.

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[beachbumbob]

1. GOP will HAVE NO WAY if democrats win the Senate and hold the house.

filibuster WILL be removed or modified to prevent

[still_one]

2. Simple solution, win the WH and both houses of Congress, get rid of the filibuster, and make the

republicans obsolete

[Newest Reality]

7. They already are obsolete!

They already are obsolete--GOP dinosaurs. Why else would they have to make an obvious power grab in an effort to hold on to their failing status and value as an opposition party? My gosh, they don't even seem to be on the same coin anymore.

That seems, to me, to be why they have attached themselves to T-Rump as a desperate attempt to stop their own downfall. It is even in the demographic projections I've seen. They are going to be less and less relevant in these challenging and dynamic times and they seem to know that.

[still_one]

9. Only if we win in 2020

[C_U_L8R]

3. That's a campaign ad for Democrats right there.

Frankly, I think Republicans prefer to play the part of disparagers and spoilers. They sure suck at governing. Vote them the fuck out.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. They tried with Obama and Nancy but both those got stuff done. Biden knows how to work government.nt

[Beakybird]

5. If there is no stimulus, we'll start feeling the economic collapse during the lame duck session.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

6. If we win the Senate and house

Republicans can go suck on a stick. Fuck austerity.
Fuck republicans and thier self serving austerity games.

[crickets]

8. Meet the new plan. Same as the old plan.

https://www.salon.com/2018/02/12/thom-hartmann-how-the-gop-used-a-two-santa-clauses-tactic-to-con-america-for-nearly-40-years_partner/

The GOP used a Two Santa Clauses tactic to con America for nearly 40 years
This scam has been killing wages and enriching billionaires for decades

The Republican Party has been running a long con on America since Reagan’s inauguration, and somehow our nation’s media has missed it – even though it was announced in The Wall Street Journal in the 1970s and the GOP has clung tenaciously to it ever since.

In fact, Republican strategist Jude Wanniski’s 1974 “Two Santa Clauses Theory” has been the main reason why the GOP has succeeded in producing our last two Republican presidents, Bush and Trump (despite losing the popular vote both times). It’s also why Reagan’s economy seemed to be “good.”

Here’s how it works, laid it out in simple summary:

First, when Republicans control the federal government, and particularly the White House, spend money like a drunken sailor and run up the US debt as far and as fast as possible. This produces three results – it stimulates the economy thus making people think that the GOP can produce a good economy, it raises the debt dramatically, and it makes people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa Claus.”

Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, scream about the national debt as loudly and frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut spending to solve the crisis!” This will force the Democrats in power to cut their own social safety net programs, thus shooting their welfare-of-the-American-people Santa Claus.

Good article. Depressing, but a goodie.

[Iliyah]

10. In order words . ...

screw the Middle Class and poor.

[abqtommy]

11. I remember when the reTHUGS said they'd make sure that Obama was a one-term

President. They're still full of shit and hot air. It's time to relieve them of their pressure.

[Salviati]

12. This was obvious the second I hear a republican making noises about the national debt...

several weeks ago. It told me they had already resigned themselves to losing.

It also underscores the importance of making a republican minority completely irrelevant under a Biden administration. We cannot be held hostage to their attempts to sabotage our country any longer.