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Republican governors mostly silent on infrastructure bill
The Hill ^ | 11/08/2021 | Reid Wilson

Posted on 11/08/2021 8:31:58 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Democratic governors hailed passage of a bipartisan infrastructure package that will send billions of dollars to state coffers to launch new projects and rebuild crumbling roads and bridges.

But only a handful of their Republican colleagues heralded the bill, which won votes from 19 Republican senators and 13 Republicans in the House.

“This bipartisan bill will put America’s infrastructure on the right track to grow jobs and make our economy competitive for the twenty-first century without raising taxes or adding to the debt,” Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said in a statement. “After decades of gridlock, I’m proud to have helped push the federal government to finally act.”

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To: ChicagoConservative27

What government people and most people don’t talk about, is that, the best infrastructure that could save the world, is an economy that is firing on all cylinders.

A great economy takes care of all the other infrastructures; without an economic engine that is robust, no other infrastructure will be able to survive, no matter how much a government tries to take away from the people.


21 posted on 11/08/2021 8:58:18 AM PST by adorno
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Yep and now watch Biden’s approval rating increase thanks to the traitors giving him a “win”.


22 posted on 11/08/2021 8:58:25 AM PST by hercuroc
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To: MinorityRepublican

Why do we need to care about Manchin and Sinema when there are 32 “Republicans” willing to pass such disasters. If they would have needed 33, they would have got 33. If they needed 43, they would have got 43.

I can understand that many of the 32 that voted for this thing are NeverTrump folks, Lindsey Graham at the top of that list.

However, Malliotakis ran as a Trump supporting Republican. She’s a fraud just like all the rest. Hoping to see someone step up next year to challenge her.

And when they all head down to Florida, I’m more than hoping that President Trump tells them all to wait outside while he finishes another round, gets something to eat and attends to some other things.

More importantly before the usual crowd chimes in about President Trump backing or supporting, this person or that person, the man has absolutely no idea what they’re going to do if/when they get in office. IE...Sasse and quite a few others. He cannot control that. The only people that can are the voters. I’m sure all the heavy construction company owners on Staten Island are licking their chops over this bill. Wait until they’re all left out in the cold when none of that money starts flowing into their pockets. Won’t be hard for AOC to demand that the construction companies that get the money are minority owned and controlled. That pretty much squeezes out all the Greeks and Paesan’s that are waiting to submit bids.

From this point on, I really wish President Trump will tell anyone wanting his support that, for now, he is done with it. He’s done being stabbed in the back repeatedly by the likes of Sasse, Malliotakis, and all the others and that he’s withholding any and all support. He’ll encourage folks to vote Republican, but no longer putting his stamp of approval on anyone.

Be interesting to see how the RNC, who’ll probably love it, and the voters will react. Voters will be furious, but in a good way, I think.


23 posted on 11/08/2021 9:01:31 AM PST by qaz123
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To: ChicagoConservative27
without raising taxes or adding to the debt

What a maroon.

24 posted on 11/08/2021 9:04:02 AM PST by grobdriver
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To: Wallace T.

Hogan is being touted as the new face of the Republican Party by the “press” and the Lincoln Project types. Well, he’s done real well in Maryland - all but 1 of the 10 congressmen and senators are Dems, and the Dems control both Houses of the Maryland Legislature by a total margin of 133-47. He’s done real good, hasn’t he? No wonder these losers want to promote him as the coach of the Washington Generals.


25 posted on 11/08/2021 9:04:50 AM PST by laconic
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To: laconic
In hyper-Democratic states like Maryland or Massachusetts, the governor's office will sometimes be taken by a liberal Republican like Hogan, following an unusually incompetent or corrupt Democratic predecessor. They change little, except to offer more gravy to red rural areas than their Democratic predecessor. I hope Youngkin isn't like Hogan.
26 posted on 11/08/2021 9:18:18 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: ChicagoConservative27; All
Thank you for referencing that article ChicagoConservative27. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate infrastructure imo. This is evidenced by the writings of President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court justices, Jefferson actually encouraging the states to amend the Constitution for such a purpose imo.

In other words, governors accepting so-called "federal" infrastructure funding can argue that they are recovering state revenues stolen by the feds by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that the very corrupt, alleged election stealing, Democratic Party-pirated Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

The ultimate remedy for unconstitutionally big federal government stealing from the states and their taxpayers...

Consider that all the states can effectively “secede” from the unconstitutionally big federal government by doing the following.

Patriots need to primary federal and state elected officials who don't send voters email ASAP that clearly promises to do the following.

Federal and state lawmakers need to promise in their emails to introduce resolutions no later than 100 days after start of new legislative sessions that proposes an amendment to the Constitution to the states, the amendment limited to repealing the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.

Insights welcome.

27 posted on 11/08/2021 9:46:29 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

We are a long way from a majority. This time it was 13 - next time it could be 100, if they needed that many. An (R) after the name is no guarantee of future performance, in a world of Deep State threats.


28 posted on 11/08/2021 9:48:22 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“..without raising taxes or adding to the debt..”

Hogan is a complete moron. He is worse than a Rhino


29 posted on 11/08/2021 10:12:23 AM PST by falcon99 (qu)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump could have done infrastructure, and it would have been better than this.


30 posted on 11/08/2021 10:16:48 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Of course, Hogan likes pork.

31 posted on 11/08/2021 10:21:10 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Porkity-pork pork pork pork pork.


32 posted on 11/08/2021 10:50:41 AM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

His name does start with “hog”.


33 posted on 11/08/2021 10:51:44 AM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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