Posted on 11/09/2021 8:44:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Last week, 13 Republicans crossed the aisle in an inexplicable move that diffused a Democrat civil war and handed Joe Biden a big win. On Friday, enough members of the far-left “squad” were prepared to vote down the bipartisan infrastructure bill until GOP members stepped to the fore to give Pelosi what she needed.
There are a lot of reasons to be angry about that as a Republican, and we’ll get to some of those. But to set things up, I want to start this clip of GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) on Fox News this morning defending her vote as one of the baker’s dozen who pushed through Biden’s agenda.
"At the end of the you don't vote against a bill simply because you want to stick it to the other side. You vote for a bill because it's the right thing to do for your constituents." @RepMalliotakis explains why she voted for President Biden's infrastructure package pic.twitter.com/wQA0qB8hp7
— America's Newsroom (@AmericaNewsroom) November 9, 2021
Frankly, I find this to be condescending garbage. The indication here by Malliotakis is that Republicans only oppose the bipartisan infrastructure bill because of politics. I reject that wholeheartedly. Do we like to own the libs from time to time? Sure we do, but this goes much further than not handing Biden a win on one of the chief planks of his policy platform.
The reality is that the country is in the midst of an inflationary boom, with today’s numbers being enough to make your eyes water. Producer price inflation rose to 8.6% year over year, which is the highest increase ever recorded in a country that has seen its share of financial crises. The middle-class is struggling under the weight of high energy costs and a supply chain crisis. The worst thing the government can do right now is pump more funny money into the economy via some boondoggle infrastructure bill.
And to be sure, it is indeed a boondoggle. Everything from “tree equity,” to payoffs for Joe Manchin’s wife, to money for fixing “racist” roads, is in there. But even if we assumed the bill was itself sound — and it’s not — who in their right mind would trust the Biden administration to be responsible with the distribution of these funds, especially since so much of it goes through our corrupt, inefficient bureaucracy?
Well, the answer to that question is Malliotakis, who apparently believes this bill is completely necessary for her constituents and has no concerns about government incompetence. That’s fine, but she shouldn’t be surprised when she finds herself with a primary challenger next year who will test that theory.
At the end of the day, there’s a reason these blue-state Republicans made up the majority of the GOP “yes” votes for the infrastructure bill. They live in districts that are perpetually mismanaged at the state and local level by Democrat politicians. But instead of working to change that reality on the ground, they’d rather fleece taxpayers in Florida and Texas in order to dump more money into the bottomless pit that is a city like New York. The GOP is supposed to stand against irresponsible stuff like this, and Malliotakis has failed that test. If Republicans want to win big in 2022, this isn’t the way to do it.
WHAT?! Trump’s infrastructure bill was 100% funded. Biden’s is 0% funded.
Trump’s infrastructure bill has to do with actual infrastructure. Biden’s is primarily Green New Deal, with less than 10% infrastructure.
I call that a difference.
This wasn’t inexplicable.
Deep State has something on all of them.
I thought Trump, while he was president, supported a massive spending bill on infrastructure. I see no difference with the current bill that got passed. I think that if it was good enough for Trump back on the day, then why are Trump supporters flipping out on these 13.
Apparently, the GOP see a difference. They did not support the Trump MAGA infrastructure bill and now support the Biden Marxist agenda “infrastructure” bill.
The GOP have also cleared the legislative decks for the upcoming Green New Deal bill, too. The Dems can now pass that at their leisure with only 50 Senate votes required thanks to support from China Mitch and the GOP Senate. With Republicans like this who needs Democrats?
Thank you for answering and saving me the trouble.
Does the poster know what ELSE is in the bill.
I know it’s hard, but one must be aware of all aspects, because you are dealing with lying, deceitful, evil DIMS.
You should win a special award for the dumbass post of the day. Of course, it is no surprise coming from a Never-Trumper such as yourself.
Why are you here? At least educate yourself just teeny tiny bit before making dopey posts.
Didn’t Trump support a massive infrastructure bill? Sure he did. People are only unhappy because the Rats didn’t give Trump this win when he was president.
“Didn’t Trump support a massive infrastructure bill?”
I guess reading comprehension is not your strong suit. As MANY have replied to you before, his “massive” infrastructure bill was ONE-HUNDRED PERCENT FUNDED, unlike PoopyJoe’s ZERO PERCENT FUNDED “infrastructure” bill. The programs in Trump’s bill were INFRASTRUCTURE, not Green New Deal and woke crap.
I get it; you’re trolling and you think it’s cute.
Did Trump support the Biden Marxist bill? No. Did the GOP? Yes. McConnell even put out a press release crowing about its passage. Why is this so difficult?
Must not forget (at least from a tennis perspective): guerrilla vs. gorilla. (do you really have to axe?)
So every Republican should go on record as saying they don't want a single penny from this bill spent on infrastructure in their district or state?
That makes too of us.
;)
One can only hope.
I agree Don, the misuse of words around here is a hugh problem. A bunch of maroons around here.
I blaim spelczech and spelcoreck.
Vote the turncoats out of office.
Condescending garbage she is indeed.
“I read a tweet (from some lib, likely) that she (Milokitas) didn’t have any choice but to vote for this....as NY is trying to redistrict her into a mostly Dem area.”
That is what I was thinking to. Thinking like that did not save Kinzinger though.
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