Posted on 06/28/2021 3:01:05 AM PDT by Libloather
Democratic leaders are engaging in a cynical bait-and-switch in a “deal” on a federal infrastructure bill. Every Republican in the Senate, including those who initially signed on to what they thought was a good-faith agreement, should reject the Democrats’ ploy.
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Before the sun had even set on the agreement, however, Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi both effectively reneged on it. Now, they say they won’t enact the compromise package unless a second bill, containing almost all of their other extravagances, passes at the same time through budget reconciliation rules, which will allow passage with a simple majority of the Senate rather than 60 of the 100 members being in favor.
“If this [bipartisan deal] is the only one that comes to me, I’m not signing it,” Biden said. “It’s in tandem.”
Obviously, if one side gets everything it wants while including things bitterly opposed by the other, then this is not a legitimate compromise, and it's certainly not the one that the senators agreed to. This Biden-Pelosi maneuver is effectively a "no-deal" statement, and Republicans should respond to it by refusing to support the compromise.
The original Biden package is a disaster that must not pass Congress. It would direct the federal government to usurp local decision-making and private-sector choices, usually at far greater cost because of federal regulatory hurdles and the bloated federal bureaucracy. It would waste hundreds of billions of dollars on projects such as high-speed rail, for which there is no real constituency, and for electric vehicles, which are already finding their own markets anyway. It would spend $400 billion expanding or creating centralized social spending of the sort that was rightly rejected by then-“New Democrats” such as President Bill Clinton 25 years ago. And it would revisit counterproductive “green energy” boondoggles of the “Solyndra”...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
There is no "legitimate compromise" with democrats because they want us all dead.
Don't believe it? Better wake up.
Why are these two anti-American, decrepit Rat #s in charge?
Had enough?
The criminal Democrats cannot negotiate in anything but “Bad Faith”, nothing else need be said. Republicans shouldn’t waste time doing anything other than blocking Biden’s insane policies.
That’s why when Trump met with Pelosi and Schumer he invited the media into the meeting. They were seething with hatred that they were bested by Trump. Regardless of a a demo agrees to, they will change it to there benefit and the GOP whines and complains as they stick their heads deeper into their rectal caverns.
The big nut is the reconciliation bill and they are going to crack it, the infrastructure bill was just a “shiny object”. I wouldn’t be doing a victory dance just yet.
Wish in one hand...
I think they changed the rules to be able to use reconciliation AGAIN.
Mitt Romney just said he “trusts the President”.
And he wasn’t referring to President Trump, without whom he would never have been elected.
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