PLEASE people stop calling the Republicans crazy or stupid. Nope neither is true. Using the term crazy gives them the cover of a mentle disability. They don’t have that. Calling them stupid underestimates what they are doing. They know exactly what they’re doing and it’s working superbly. While Democrats keep saying that the Republican party is on its heels gasping for air they ignore the fact that they’re getting 100 percent of what they want done. Nope they’re not crazy or stupid. They’re as sly as a fox.
President Biden as put forth an agenda and the Republicans are laughing because President Biden and a few select Democratic Senators have been doing their work for them. There is absolutely no way that the Democrats are ever going to get bi-partisan support on any bill. The Republican Senators have demonstrated this time and time again. They will continue to vote as a block and their plan to thwart Democratic initiatives will work because the Dems are more interested in the optics of bi-partisan cooperation than they are in using the one thing that gives the people of chance. So long as the Democrats continue to resist acting on the filibuster they will be dead in the water. That’s what our CRAZY and STUPID Republicans want. They are running 🏃♂️ out the clock and Democrats are just wasting time trying to negotiate with them.
Make no mistake that the Republicans are going to do everything under the sun to regain control of the Senate in the mid-terms. If they do you can be sure of one thing Mitch McConnell will move to get rid of the filibuster and Katie bar the door.
Unfortunately we have short memories. When Trump became President McConnell change the rules on filibustering for federal judges. A sixty percent majority went to a simple majority. With that advantage the Republicans went on a court packing binge. In four years Trump could more federal judges than Obama got in eight. They succeeded in getting three Supreme Court justices that likely would not have been approved without the change regarding the filibuster. The Republicans don’t hesitate to do whatever it takes to win.
The 2017 tax cuts are a perfect example. I often wonder if I’m the only person who read the fine print. The fine print says that the cuts for big corporations and the super rich are permanent. Conversely the clock is ticking for regular citizens. The tax cuts for them have an expiration date. That date is five years from the date of implementation. That means that soon people who rejoiced over those few extra dollars will see them go poof while the big fish swim merrily by. If you’re wondering why I bring this up it’s because Biden wants to pay for his Infrastructure plan by raising corporate taxes and the super rich. For the Replicans that’s a non starter. So what do they do. They pretend to negotiate a bi-partisan Infrastructure program while they run out the clock. McConnell told the world that his goal was to spend 100 percent of his effort stopping Bidens agenda. Republicans winning, Democrats spinning their wheels because they’re focused on the optics of bi-partisanship. The Republicans wouldn’t waste a second before using reconciliation to deliver a tax present to their friends and family. The Democrats on the other hands posture but are afraid to pull the trigger. They forget a fundamental truth of who the American people are. We are a society that splits itself into winners and losers. Everyone is preoccupied with being a winner. The losers get eaten for lunch. If the Democrats fail to get anything done people won’t remember the stimulus bill. They’ll remember that they were losers.
How many times do they have to demonstrate that they (the Republicans) aren’t remotely interested in working with the Democrats before it finally sinks in? Democrats make the mistake of thinking that not playing hardball makes them attractive. They’re wrong it only makes them appear weak.
So what do we know? We know that the Republicans have no intentions of working across the isle. We know that the Republicans are systematically dismantling the free and fair election process. We know that the FBI as said unequivocally that the threat of domestic white supremacist terrorism looms large over the Republic and we continue to operate like we’re living in normal times. We have #BunkerBitchakaDJT talking about being reinstated by August. I can’t be the only one who is alarmed by the cavalier approach to dealing with these threats.
Come 2022 there may be areal surprise waiting for the Democrats at the polls if they don’t do something. Don’t sound the death knoll for the Republican party to soon. Sometimes you have to be prepared to fight fire 🔥 with fire. These are perilous times.
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Excellent article!
Thank you!