Partisan and proud. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images Moderate Republicans are accusing Joe Biden of secretly plotting to enact the policies he campaigned on.
Regardless, the Republicans’ frustrations aren’t baseless. Democrats’ supposed attempt to strike a bipartisan compromise on their $1.9 trillion COVID-relief bill really was a perfunctory gestures; within 24 hours of the White House’s meeting with the G-10 in February, Chuck Schumer initiated the reconciliation process.
All of which is to say: This is not the Affordable Care Act. Democrats are not proposing anything politically risky and thus have less need for “bipartisan cover” than they did during the battle over Obamacare 12 years ago. 3) Conservative media isn’t terribly interested in demagoguing Biden’s fiscal policies . As the polling cited above would suggest, rank-and-file Republicans just aren’t that titillated by debates over highway funding. They’re here for the culture war not budgetary battles.
4) A majority of Republican House members voted to nullify the 2020 election because Democrats won it — and did this after their party’s leader had fomented an insurrection that got people killed in the halls of Congress — all of which makes it difficult for the GOP to accuse its opponents of excessive partisanship. As far as I can tell, Republicans are right that the mainstream media is less sympathetic to their complaints of presidential partisanship than it was during the Obama years.
5) Democrats won control of the White House and Congress, and would like to pass their agenda, which happens to be very different from the Republican agenda. The Democratic coalition is systematically underrepresented at every level of government. To win the Electoral College in 2020, Biden had to win the two-way popular vote by nearly four points. To win control of the House in 2018, Democrats needed a historic landslide.
If its just infrastructure, great. But we all know the bills will be loaded with Democrat wishlist items. F that.
Oh like every other president hasn’t tried to pass their agenda? Please...
Obama's big mistake was thinking he could win over some republicans. Did not work. Biden has learned
It depends how you define bipartisanship.
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