Confession Time: GOP Wants To Kill Biden Infrastructure Plan

[UCmeNdc]

It's the ACA all over again. Run out the clock, pretend to offer amendments, and vote no en masse.

It's not at all surprising that Republicans are using President Joe Biden's willingness to engage them in infrastructure negotiations to drag the process out until it dies under the weight of lost momentum. It's slightly surprising that they are talking about it out in the open, basically gloating over the fact that they've peeled Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema away, coopting them into doing their dirty work.

Minority Whip John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, explained to Politico all about how it's going to work. Republicans agree to spend a lot of money—"a massive amount of new spending on infrastructure"—in order to draw Democratic support away from a potential reconciliation bill coming together on a second track. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have started work on that effort, a way that Democrats can pass Biden's larger agenda without Republicans. Republicans think they can make a deal on physical infrastructure, pull Democratic votes to that, and then pull the rug out from everyone.

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/06/confession-time-gop-wants-kill-biden

[peggysue2]

1. Of course, the GOP wants to kill the infrastructure bill

Why? Because it's wildly popular all across the country. Passing it isn't a question of what the majority of Americans want. It's all about denying the Biden Administration a win and continuing the GOP's slavish nod to their dark money donors and authoritarian desires.

Republicans are not the loyal opposition. They are seditionist weasels

[PortTack]

2. I laugh when I see this stuff...how many years experience do Schumer & Biden have between them?