[Ge0ffrey]

Let me see if I understand this correctly. Democrats get shallacked four days ago, and then turn around and give us this in-your-face liberal spending bill, with the help of 11 Republicans!

It’s business as usual. Nothing has changed. There are no consquences. Voters be damned!

[Carriage Hill]

You got that right. It’s legislative revenge for the loss.
Wait until the next social $3.5T spending bill comes up for voting, next week or so.

[Leep]

It’s possibly more important to vote out the RINOs than the loony leftist.
Okay both.

[cuban leaf]

The good news is that every day more people are able to grasp that we have a uniparty playing “good cop, bad cop” with us. The two party system died many decades ago.

[Bshaw]

[...with the help of 11 Republicans!”

11 Republicans who would not help Trump get a real infrastructure bill passed last year.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Fixing Washington D.C. requires a one megaton blast at about 500 feet. While they are all in town.

Nothing less will do..

[Drew68]

Let me see if I understand this correctly. Democrats get shallacked four days ago, and then turn around and give us this in-your-face liberal spending bill, with the help of 11 Republicans!

The infrastructure bill was always expected to pass. It's the multi-trillion dollar (and growing) Build Back Better bill, full of all kinds of climate crap and social justice spending, that's in trouble.

[af_vet_1981]

It’s business as usual. Nothing has changed.

No, because of the election results, Democrats decided to decouple the somewhat bipartisan infrastructure bill from the Democrat progressives' bill. The Democrat progressive wing had held up the first bill for weeks/months in a bid to force the second bill through. They folded after the loss and near loss in the Virginia and New Jersey elections because Democrats are worried about losing 51 seats in next year's midterms and losing the presidential race in 2024.

Each house district differs by the composition of its voters, so each representative has to take that into consideration. I do not the details of the 11 Republicans' districts. I doubt there will be a single Republican vote for the second progressive bill, but perhaps one already not returning (Kinzinger) may do so out of pique or for reward from the Democrats.

[af_vet_1981]

It’s business as usual. Nothing has changed.

No, because of the election results, Democrats decided to decouple the somewhat bipartisan infrastructure bill from the Democrat progressives' bill. The Democrat progressive wing had held up the first bill for weeks/months in a bid to force the second bill through. They folded after the loss and near loss in the Virginia and New Jersey elections because Democrats are worried about losing 51 seats in next year's midterms and losing the presidential race in 2024.

Each house district differs by the composition of its voters, so each representative has to take that into consideration. I do not the details of the 11 Republicans' districts. I doubt there will be a single Republican vote for the second progressive bill, but perhaps one already not returning (Kinzinger) may do so out of pique or for reward from the Democrats.

[Fledermaus]

11 Assistant Democrats

[bray]

How many Repubs voted for it.

[Eleutheria5]

Those 11 Republicans must be tired of representing their constituents. Someone else should do the job instead.