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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans just handed Biden a good reason to go big -- without them
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Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
Republicans are now openly boasting of their plot to win the House through extreme gerrymanders. This alone should dissuade Biden and Dems from negotiating down the stimulus to secure bipartisanship. Dems may have only 2 years. Make them count. My latest:
Opinion | Republicans just handed Biden a good reason to go big without them
Republicans are vowing extreme gerrymanders. Here's how Democrats should fight back.
washingtonpost.com
8:46 AM · Feb 1, 2021
Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
Republicans are now openly boasting of their plot to win the House through extreme gerrymanders. This alone should dissuade Biden and Dems from negotiating down the stimulus to secure bipartisanship. Dems may have only 2 years. Make them count. My latest:
Opinion | Republicans just handed Biden a good reason to go big without them
Republicans are vowing extreme gerrymanders. Here's how Democrats should fight back.
washingtonpost.com
8:46 AM · Feb 1, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/01/gop-gerrymandering-biden-agenda-stimulus/
Ten Senate Republicans are unveiling their own scaled-down economic rescue plan with the transparent aim of getting President Biden to negotiate away his own ambitions. The game theyre playing runs as follows: If Biden doesnt make all kinds of concessions in their direction, they suggest, hell be reneging on his promise to pursue unity.
But this argument has now been badly undercut by none other than Republicans themselves.
In an important new piece, the New York Times reports that Republican operatives are openly boasting of their intention to ramp up efforts to gerrymander House districts during this years decennial redistricting.
The upshot of that report: Its plausible that Democrats could lose the House in 2022 largely on the strength of GOP partisan gerrymandering.
If so, then it seems obvious that Biden and Democrats cannot seriously trim their agenda for the sake of achieving bipartisanship for its own sake. If Democrats do lose the House, Bidens agenda screeches to a halt.
It would be the ultimate perversity if this were to happen due to GOP gerrymandering after Biden significantly downscaled his agenda in search of bipartisan comity. If Republicans are threatening to take back the House through a nakedly partisan exercise of counter-majoritarian tactics and if theres a decent chance theyll succeed it furnishes a good reason for Biden and Democrats to do as much as they can right now, with or without Republicans.
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Republicans just handed Biden a good reason to go big -- without them (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Feb 2021
OP
I believe Manchin and one other is not for the package. Puts us in a really bad place, doesn't it?
LizBeth
Feb 2021
#2
He does, but I am now seeing both VP Harris and WV Gov corralled him. See if this works.
LizBeth
Feb 2021
#5
kirkuchiyo
(402 posts)1. And you know the second the have the house back they'll impeach Biden... nt
LizBeth
(9,953 posts)2. I believe Manchin and one other is not for the package. Puts us in a really bad place, doesn't it?
mopinko
(70,366 posts)4. dude needs a good talking to.
LizBeth
(9,953 posts)5. He does, but I am now seeing both VP Harris and WV Gov corralled him. See if this works.
mopinko
(70,366 posts)6. needs to chair the committee on great pumpkin greeters.
BComplex
(8,087 posts)3. The first piece of legislation that the democrats should pass is to STOP gerrymandering
in any form. All states should be required to have bipartisan committees in charge of setting district boundaries, and there should be legal parameters to meet.
crickets
(25,990 posts)7. K&R for visibility.