Why Won't Biden Negotiate With GOP Moderates' Infrastructure Offer Of $8, Bag Of Dogsh*t?

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The Republican Party does not exist.

Oh, sure, there are still Republicans running around causing chaos and trying to steal elections. But as an organization with actual governance principles or policy ideas, they're deader than the dodo. Witness this perfect display yesterday by West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito as she discussed the GOP's infrastructure "plan" on CNBC's "Squawk Box."

"What I'd like to do is get back to what I consider the regular definition of infrastructure in terms of job creation," Capito told host Joe Kernan. "So that's roads, bridges, ports, airports, including broadband into that, water infrastructure. And we've already made, sort of, our first step there in our bipartisan way through our committee. We have a bill on water and wastewater structure; it's about $30 billion dollars over five years and it works on some of the things that are aspirational in President Biden's plan. So I think the best way for us to do this is hit the sweet spot of where we agree, and I think we can agree on a lot of the measures moving forward. How much, I would say, probably into the $600 or $800 billion range, but we haven't put all that together yet."

First of all, $30 billion dollars over five years to fix our nation's water infrastructure is a bloody joke. The EPA says it will take $384.2 billion spread out over 20 years, and that price tag isn't going to get any lower by kicking the can down the road. And, oh, bee-tee-dubs, clean drinking water isn't "aspirational," it's kind of necessary to sustain all human life.

Second, I don't want to hear a single damn word about Democrats stretching the meaning of the word "infrastructure" to include progressive priorities. We just lived through four years where the president labeled everything an "EMERGENCY" and went on to do exactly as he pleased without the trouble of passing legislation. He did it with the Muslim ban, he did it with steel tariffs, he did it with border wall funding, and he did it with refugee policy to separate children from their parents, even seizing on the pandemic as a reason to exacerbate the misery, all the while pretending that public health orders for Americans were a gross overreaction. JFC, he did it with congressionally allocated defense funds for Ukraine, and the GOP — including Shelley Moore Capito! — said that was totally kosher.

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