Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) spun the merry-go-round of infrastructure talks back to April in comments to reporters on Wednesday, less than one day after the White House said that it would try to reach a deal through a coalition that includes the Utah senator.
It doesn’t matter what Mittens says , he will do what Moscow Mitch says.
Best as I can tell, there’s no viable infrastructure compromise with any reactionary: they’ve all taken new revenue off the table, which means none of Biden’s larger goals can be achieved.
To all appearances, all the reactionaries are trying to do is to make the administration complicit in their efforts to stymie it.
Personally I like crumbling bridges.
AmeriCa doeSnT need InfrastrUctre. TrUmp alReady maDe amEriCa great!
Why would any genuine, authentic journalist put a microphone in front of Pat Toomey? Is a lame duck / dead duck’s perspective at all meaningful in any realistic way?
It makes going to the grocery store a great adventure.
“We’re not raising taxes,” Romney told CNN
Okay, fine. Let’s just borrow it all and put the Fortune 500 up as collateral. I don’t think there would be any constitutional impediment to doing so.
Media: Mitt Romney is a reasonable Republican.
Mitt Romney: “We’re not raising taxes,”
Me: Nope! He’s just a normal Republican. Just a normal, awful, horrible, RepubliCON.
Prime Minister Manchin won’t permit that.
Romney just doesn’t learn. He’s put his dog in a cage on top of his car and sped away. Oh, and, he doesn’t want HIS taxes raised, or those others of his income and wealth. Suffer, ye children!
Fine. Let’s not raise taxes.
Let’s just eliminate some of the loopholes that allowed the 25 richest folks in America to pay as little as $0 in taxes in any given year.
For Republicans, that’s the worst kind of tax increase on earth.
“We’re not raising taxes,” Romney told CNN, immediately taking a key Democratic demand off the table.
New face, same demands.
How much longer are we going to play this charade where we all pretend that their exists good faith negotiating partners on the Republican side?
Tax rates are meaningless, apparently, unless you’re poor or middle class. It’s just silly to have discussion about whether the tax rate should be 25 or 28% when folks are able to pay 0%
This is OT but I have to post it somewhere:
The term “loopholes” implies that they’re oversights of the legislative process. I can assure you that’s not the case.
Smartest guy in the Capitol. Creative use of the Jewish Space Lasers focused on one section of the planet could nudge us slightly further away from the sun, dropping temperatures by a couple of degrees, alleviating any need to switch from fossil fuels.
Well tell Louie that then. He is the one who asked.
Mittens Romney, Champion of Rich White Corporate (“corporations are people”) Guys
