johnny99 wrote:
The Republicans believe in 'unity' as long as everything is done the way they want it. The idea of compromise or bipartisanship is dead in the party of Lincoln.
Biden gave up on the minimum wage and compromised on emergency jobless benefits and was then able to get the Covid relief bill passed. But still, not a single Republican in either the House or the Senate voted for the bill, which, as is noted above, is overwhelmingly popular among Americans.
In 2010, McConnell announced that the top political priority of the Republicans was to deny Obama a second term. He failed at that, but more importantly he announced what seems to have become the guiding principle of the Republican Party - they exist only to oppose and obstruct whatever the Democrats want. They no longer have an interest in governing the nation, or moving the nation forward. They no longer care about improving the lives of Americans. All they care about is beating the Democrats.
If Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer cured cancer, the Republicans would vote no.
Had Trump been as skillful a negotiator and dealmaker as Biden, he could have repealed the ACA and passed his own health care reform act. He could have gotten legislative approval and funding to build his wall, instead of taking money away from Homeland Security to do it. But Trump's idea of negotiation is "my way or the highway"; if he doesn't get everything that he wants, he takes his ball and goes home. And that's one reason why he had remarkably few accomplishments.
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johnny99 wrote:If Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer cured cancer, the Republicans would vote no.
This is 100% true. And we know it because that's pretty much what just happened. Nancy, Chuck, and Joe passed a bill to cure both COVID and the economic ills that go with it.
And it will work. The bill provides crucial funds to get the US immunized. Among other things, it is slated to cut the poverty rate in half.
But every Republican voted no.
johnny99 wrote:Had Trump been as skillful a negotiator and dealmaker as Biden, he could have repealed the ACA and passed his own health care reform act. He could have gotten legislative approval and funding to build his wall, instead of taking money away from Homeland Security to do it. But Trump's idea of negotiation is "my way or the highway"; if he doesn't get everything that he wants, he takes his ball and goes home. And that's one reason why he had remarkably few accomplishments.
Those of us who understood Trump from the beginning always said that he was actually terrible at business and couldn't negotiate his way out of a paper bag. And true to form, his presidency was marked by an incredible lack of accomplishment. Biden has already surpassed Trump in the first 50 days.