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There’s a bipartisan tax bill that lift millions of children out of poverty and provides businesses with critical tax breaks. Even though it passed overwhelmingly in the House, GOP senators are stalling it to prevent a “Biden win.” Sound familiar? https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/is-bipartisanship-dead?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
@jaykuo Qpublicans only care about control. They feel the need to drive the narrative. Unfortunately for them these strong armed tactics are going to bite them on the ass in November. A vast majority of Americans see and understand what the Qpublicans are doing and as a great American once said, “Homie don’t play that”. A Blue Tsunami is coming in November
@jaykuo It's been dead forever. Republicans are just trying to squeeze the blood out of the rock before they die
Bipartisanship is as dead as that poor possum that tried crossing the 405 freeway at dusk.
@jaykuo but don’t the Dems control the Senate?
@SolMastodon @jaykuo When it comes to the Senate "Control" becomes a slippery term. To actually control the Senate a party would have to have solidarity and a 60% majority: neither party has perfect solidarity and neither party has a 60% majority. That means the minority party, under the Senate procedures agreed upon as they are right now, can block almost anything that comes before the Senate. There are very few special exceptions, but this bill is not one of them.
@wbpeckham @jaykuo Interesting. Is it worth asking, then, how the measure passed the House if the House is under Republican control?
@SolMastodon @jaykuo Sure: it was a bipartisan bill, both parties worked on it and both parties voted for it. Bill's pass in the house by a simple majority. In the Senate there are Republicans that swing a lot of weight in the party and who are against it. And they do not need the whole Republican side to oppose it, just a total of 40 or more out of 100, because in the Senate it takes 60% to pass instead of a simple majority.
@jaykuo Maybe Biden should threaten to veto it so they can say the pwnd him by passing it
@jaykuo it’s what they do.
@jaykuo were these tax breaks “needed”? To me this looks like yet another example of Republicans agreeing spending without funding the spending, so that later they can scream about how there isn’t any money for “socialist” programs.
The GOP does NOT want to do what's best for #Americans or even what's best for #Republicans. The #GOP wants whats best for their #political careers, even if that means #hurting the people of #America.
The GOP does NOT want to govern. The GOP simply wants to win. Like it's a #game with no consequences. If what they have to do to win hurts America, hurts Republicans, they will still do it.
They GOP doesn't care about the #USA, they only care about their own selfish desires.