Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) signaled openness to a bigger infrastructure package Sunday, a potentially positive sign to open a week peppered with bipartisan meetings and negotiations.
Hot dog! McConnell wants to work in a bipartisan way for the good of the country!!! Things are truly turning around.
Also, I have a bridge in Manhattan that I really need to get off my hands. PM me. Serious offers only.
Smoke and Mirrors, thatâs all. Look squirrel!
Mitch doesnât photograph well. Mitch doesnât negotiate or compromise very well. Mitch doesnât act as a decent human being very well.
âThe way to pay for infrastructure is through the gas tax that already exists, and the gap between that and what weâre willing to spend here needs to be credibly paid for, and the best way to pay for infrastructure is with the people who use it,â McConnell said during the Sunday interview
Some of us live in a state with one of the lowest gas taxes, which they do want to raise, but somehow the Republicans will try and insert a tax break on businesses. Besides I always thought the gas tax was for maintenance of current infrastructure?
And frankly where was this plan in previous 4 years? We four years of âthe Infrastructure Week announcement will be in the next week or twoâ.
He still doesnât get that heâs a nonfactor in these negotiations and that it doesnât matter what he does or doesnât think. He rendered himself irrelevant when he announced that his number one legislative goal was to stop Biden. The only question is whether or not a few members of his caucus think they can survive voting against a popular infrastructure bill. Thatâs the only question that has anything to do with him at all.
McConnell like other Repubs would like the the Dems to cut a smaller cheque because they know itâs not enough to succeed and make change. That would be in their favour. As we know, itâs party before country.
Enough time has been wasted trying to bring sense to the GOP. Hopefully Biden is ready to make his moves now.
Because of factories and jobs fleeing America in favor of developing countries, and Republican tax-avoiding schemes, our country has been starved of revenue to manage and upgrade our infrastructure.
Because of this undeniable history, it would be entirely fitting to raise capital gains and corporate tax rates to pay for these improvements.
My only recommendation to Biden and the other Democrats is GO BIG or GO HOME. America needs to spend big right now or we will slip out of the first world all the way to the third.
Trump would have won re-election if he had really embraced infrastructure instead of his billionaire tax cut. It is what America really needs right now. He just wasnât smart enough to realize it.
Sorry⌠but FUCK Mitch McConnell⌠why should anyone give a SHIT about what he thinks
But for negotiating purposes, itâs still something.
Starting at 20¢ on the $1 is not negotiating, itâs an insult on a par with âall due respect.â This is nothing more than McConnell taking a small step back from his pledge to focus 100% on hamstringing the Biden administration, a point Fox will beat to death as GOP willing to negotiate, Democrats refuse.
the best way to pay for infrastructure is with the people who use it
Everybody uses or benefits from infrastructure so everybody should pay for it. Itâs called a tax increase.
Actually what Mitch is after is a bridge ya know⌠only itâs not in NYC. It spans the Ohio River from Cincinnati to Covington Kentucky. And it carries I-75. Itâs been in need of rebuilding for decades.
OT, since it doesnât even make TPMâs news anymore ⌠there were nine mass shootings this past weekend.
Oh, and more OT, but much more fun. The GOP had their ranked choice primaries this weekend here in VA. I guess there were some ⌠glitches.
*Their own activists couldnât traverse all of the GOPâs newly-imposed âvoter integrityâ verifications. Evidently, a whole bunch of people didnât know how to do fill out the necessary paperwork so they left whole portions blank, which, under the new strict vote-counting rules the Republicans are pushing, should result in throwing out the ballot or registration form."
The fact that McConnell said anything at all is significant.
Thatâs how fucked he is.
âSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) signaled openness to
a bigger infrastructure package Sundayanother kabuki dance of dead-end delay to jerk around anyone left on the planet who still believes he isnât a proto-Nazi mob boss,a potentially positive signanother desperate attempt at âbipartisanâ bullsh-t for gullible rubes to open a week peppered withbipartisan meetings and negotiationsmore sensationalism barked by scandal-starved pundit jackasses horrified by a glimpse of their own irrelevance in the shadow of a competent and non-criminal administration.â
Fixed.
Mitch thinks? Are you really sure of that?
First thought of each day: Power!! How do I get more?
Is this how Mitch signals he wonât TOTALLY screw over the American taxpayer??? âWeâll give you SOME roads and bridges but you wonât be able to DRIVE on them because we wonât take care of the rest. We have to save SOME money to rebate to the very wealthy when weâre in control again!â