The GOP's whining about Biden is absurd. Good thing Democrats are ignoring it.
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Greg Sargent
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Let's be clear: Republicans are simply not part of the conversation about how to address two of the biggest crises this country has faced in the modern era. Until 10 GOP senators say what they're willing to support, there's no debate to be had. New piece:
Opinion | The GOP’s whining about Biden is absurd. Good thing Democrats are ignoring it.
Republicans want to lure Democrats down the same rabbit hole they did in 2009.
washingtonpost.com
9:02 AM · Jan 29, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/29/biden-reconciliation-gop-outrage/
Let’s state this clearly. Broadly speaking, Republicans are simply not part of the conversation in any meaningful sense about how to address the two biggest crises facing the country right now — crises that dwarf anything we’ve seen in the modern era.
Republicans have settled on the story they’re going to tell about the current moment: If President Biden and Democrats act ambitiously and use their power to address these crises and the mass suffering they are causing, then it’s a personal affront to them.
Republicans are now fanning out en masse to claim that if Democrats use the “reconciliation” process to move all or parts of Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion economic rescue package by a simple Senate majority, then it will constitute a “betrayal” of his promise to seek “unity.”
Two new reports — one from the New York Times, and the other from Politico — neatly capture the absurdity of this spin. As the Times notes, Biden is reaching out to Republicans for support for his rescue package, which includes $1,400 stimulus checks, extended unemployment insurance and large expenditures to scale up a national coronavirus response, among many other things.
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that the regular and average Americans they have despicably corralled to their side will wake the fuck up. Their horror will be when the big glass of propaganda shit they have filled up since Ronnie Raygun days will teeter and tip over and spill to the ground. That glass is shaking and leaking a little now and their containment devices known as “Patriotism” and “God Fearing” and “Family Values” are failing.
When that Republican glass of shit is empty, it will be up to Democrats to refill that glass with good, nourishing policies that Americans can see in the health and security of their families and the health and security of their bank accounts.
Edit: That glass will have to be changed to a new clean one. 
