White House press secretary Jen Psaki has a message for GOP senators who’ve been wailing about President Joe Biden dodging their trap by refusing to sign a bipartisan infrastructure bill without a reconciliation bill: Suck it up, buttercup.
I don’t think the GOP’ers think they’ll get much heat for any tactic they employ as it prevents the legislation. If the bill does pass and the work begins, folks get good jobs and so forth the GOP will suffer for it’s previous positions. But if it does not pass they walk. They’re fine. So as the end of this comes into focus and it looks like the bill will be enacted expect the GOP to change. If it look a bust they’ll keep up the asshole routine.
Graham wasn’t going to vote for the bill anyway, so who cares what he’s blathering on about?
I trust that the GQP is serving lots of cheese to go with all that whining?
Plow the motherfuckers over like they’re not there. Make them look like the idiots they are. When they realize we’re not going to take their shit anymore a few of them might actually get serious about governing instead of whining 24/7.
Get over it fuckers.
If I were you I’d blame Donnie for your fucked up situation.
Two can play this game, assholes!
Word.
Then the Democrats get shit done for people while the GOP stands there with big ol tears running down their faces. And Joe Biden’s popularity goes up.
No, if the Rs vote against the bipartisan infrastructure plan, they will hand Democrats a potent talking point about how the GQP is against jobs and making needed fixes to the country’s crumbling infrastructure. Biden should not have trouble finding a decrepit bridge in Kentucky to make the argument.
Actually, I did not expect the GOP whining to start this early.
Got to the fuckers.
OT but Chauvin is being sentenced on TV right now.
It hasn’t worked that way for 30 years. Without a tangible negative there’s nothing you can sink into people’s heads. The ACA is an example. They stymied that for years ( decades if you consider the Clinton efforts ) and they suffered little. But once it came to be…that’s a different story. Folks would LOSE their healthcare and that’s the tangible. If it never came about no one’s missing anything and GOP yak carries the day.
Yeah. They’ve gotten so used to the sound of themselves saying no that they seem a bit rattled by this. I have faith in Mitch to fuck it up somehow, but the backdrop of a building collapsing (“right here in America—this isn’t supposed to happen” — Mayor of the community in FL) put kind of a big ! on the press conference.
I really don’t want to see Jen Psaki leave the WH. She is AWESOME!!!
Missed this
Yesterday:
Graham went to tell Politico that the five Senate Republicans negotiating the deal never told him about the linkage strategy and he does not believe that they were aware of it. “Most Republicans could not have known that,” he said.
Five days ago:
WALLACE: Democrats on the left say – again, on the left say that the only way they’ll agree to this bipartisan infrastructure package is if there’s another, separate, much bigger, maybe even $6 trillion, spending and tax package that would be passed on a straight party line vote through the Senate. Take a look.
GRAHAM: Right.
Short-term memory impairment is one of the earlier symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Hypocrisy, on the other hand, is a defining feature of Republicans.
ETA: From that same interview:
REP. PRAMILA JAYAPAL (D-WA): I think it would be very difficult to find the votes for that [bipartisan infrastructure bill] in the House unless there was a simultaneous movement and agreement of the full reconciliation package with 50 votes in the Senate.
I agree about the building collapsing - that didn’t help the GOP’s intransigent position with regard to infrastructure. We do look like a less than 1st world country.
“If he’s gonna tie them together, he can forget it!” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) fumed.
Boo fucking hoo, Lindz.
Chances of that request succeeding were slim and none, but it’s good to see that it was shut down in any event.