Apparently so! After decades of bad faith from Republican Senators, it seems like they just might be catching on. We saw this movie most prominently during the ACA, with Republicans pretending to negotiate with no intention of offering anything tangible and just dragging it out and humming things up.
So this is nice to see:
Basically, it’s “OK, you say have something to negotiate? Put something tangible on the table right now or ■■■■ off we’re doing this through reconciliation.”
It’s so fun and rewarding watching them learning and figuring things out.
Relief was never the question? The question was who the relief was for? Was it for the common man, that’s been negatively affected by this virus or are we talking about local and state governments, who have mismanaged their budgets long before COVID and are using this virus as an excuse to get financially bailed out, for decades of monetary mismanagement?
Yep, exactly on time, there’s the dangling of the theoretical possibility of compromise that no one believes from the GOP so why waste everybody’s time.
It’s about realizing that Republicans in the Senste are incapable of negotiating in good faith. So instead of letting empty, bad faith promises gum up the works, it’s “OK, put it on the table”. If not then get the ■■■■ out.
Push it down their throat. If repubs won’t work with dems, plow ahead. I’m sick of dems being weak on this. You have the power, use it. Get stuff done. Ignore the non sense from mitch and others. GET IT DONE!!!
Sure. Remember though, at some point you will be in the minority and those words may come back to bite libs in the ass. Unless of course they have selective memory problems…again.
Not if the majority of media outlets refuse to cover policy failures or overreach, while the tech companies remove anything that puts Democrats in a bad light.
The ACA was passed through reconciliation in 2010 after the defeat of the pro ACA Senate candidate in Massachusetts…and now they think “long suffering” Democrats have just discovered it?