Another step towards passing the so-called bipartisan infrastructure agreement. Today, the obstruction bill was broken, and Republicans and Democrats surrendered to Joe Biden and his main policy goals. One-party life.
But remember, the Republicans want you to put them back in power in 2022.
The Senate broke the obstruction of the infrastructure bill and laid the foundation for the final vote. pic.twitter.com/ccUR8biAlZ
-The Hill (@thehill) August 7, 2021
I haven’t seen the final voting result, but it’s safe to say that the 17 Republicans who participated in the contest The motion continues Do it here again. Considering everything that has happened, it’s amazing to see them fold like this.
The negotiations started with a certain combination of Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi Break the deal No less than three times. Despite this, the problematic Republicans persisted and truly served the people, spending more than $1 trillion during the inflation boom.Even after Biden and the Democrats announced that they would Double cross Republican collaborator By reconciling, making the transaction completely meaningless, Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski and others continued to move forward.
Later, Biden explode By ignoring the illegal order of the Supreme Court to obtain property rights, even this will not prevent our Republican heroes from eager to make the Democratic Party a major victory in policy. If you start to wonder what is the meaning of any of these, then you are not alone.
Obviously, the bill itself has many rewards. This is true for any huge expenditure bill like this. But you still hope that even the most spineless Republicans can understand the political consequences here and act accordingly. On the contrary, they seem to ignore everything that is happening around them, from the tricks of the Democratic Party to Biden’s illegal undermining of the rights of the people. It’s as if this infrastructure deal is the only existence that the Republican Party supports it. It doesn’t make sense at all.
Perhaps this is still part of some misguided attempts to stop the reconciliation push, but the Democrats have made it clear that they are advancing this process. The only other explanation here is that Manchin and the cinema may have obtained assurances behind closed doors-they are aligned on key issues such as ProAct, and the Democrats will undoubtedly try to pass in some way through reconciliation.
However, I don’t think this will work for Republicans. They alienated the voters they needed to regain power in 2022, and in the process, they made Biden furious about the negative impact of infrastructure transactions. If inflation continues to increase, he will now blame the Republican senator. In my opinion, this is just a very stupid calculation.
The correct approach here is always to do what the Democrats did to Trump—become the opposition and ride the waves in the next midterm elections. Putting his highest policy requirements to Biden, on the contrary. I think Republican voters will not forget it.
