[AnthonySoprano]

One side fights, the other lays down.

[AnthonySoprano]

[Midwesterner53]

Republicans want to be liked and Democrats want to win.

[Fiji Hill]

Why didn’t the Republicans use Reconciliation?

Because they're nice guys. And as Leo Durocher once remarked, "nice guys finish last."

[dangus]

Democrats struggle to figure out how to win. Republicans struggle to come up with excuses for why they refuse to do what their voters want.

[Republican Wildcat]

During what period of time? They did use reconciliation...that's how we got tax reform and the repeal of the individual mandate.

When Pelosi and the Dems took over the House that was no longer an option, obviously.

[PGR88]

Republicans have done ZERO to limit government over the last 50 years. Most RINOs in fact have sought to make it much larger and more intrusive.

[butlerweave]

The GOP is Wishy-Washy

[nikos1121]

Mconnell, Paul Ryan...Graham... You know the guys who fight by Marquis of Queensberry Rules.

[qaz123]

Because they’re not really Republicans in the definition we hope they’d be.

They’re just government employees that make money off the taxpayer and enrich their friends and donors.

[cdcdawg]

Using tactics like that might result in policies that the Republican base wants. The GOP hates its base. They fantasize about swapping bases with the Dems.

[mewzilla]

They’re the same side.

[x]

The reconciliation process was created by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and was first used in 1980. Bills passed using the reconciliation process include the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. - Wikipedia

[RobertoinAL]

Because R’s are spineless whimps who like to play nice with the snakes. They are led by bottom feeding crooks who have their pockets lined with re-election donations from sources who directly and vocally oppose most conservative Americans wishes.

[ConservativeMind]

Because the RINOs didn’t want to help Trump.

[brownsfan]

The Washington Generals do not switch up from man to man to zone on the Globetrotters.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Because Turtle.

[Ingtar]

They did not want to succeed, simply appear to be trying.

[2aProtectsTheRest]

"Why didn’t the Republicans fill the Budget with Billions for Right Wing Causes and rewards for Republicans locales via Reconciliation?"

When did we become the party of "SPEND! SPEND! SPEND!!!"?

I think a better question to ask would be: "why didn't the Republicans use reconciliation to balance the Federal budget and kill all the useless nonsense that's in there?"

[Secret Agent Man]

many republicans are democrats in training

[EasySt]

“ One side fights, the other lays down. “

Only 6 Senators voted against The Steal when it happened, and one of
those probably only did so for optics.

What on Earth makes anyone think that there are effectively two sides, there, represented by the two parties.

They are simply the two wings of the same vulture, busy selling us out and eating our lunch. (while the PedoDementoCorruptoCrat fondles his unsuspecting little “payments”.)

~Easy