basquebromance
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- Nov 26, 2015
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it’s no surprise that so many of the worst things that have happened in the last twenty years have been bipartisan. The invasion of Iraq was deeply bipartisan. Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, and a long list of other prominent Democrats voted for it. The Patriot Act was almost unanimously bipartisan. (Russ Feingold was the only senator who voted against it.) The beginning of the forever war in Afghanistan was so bipartisan that there wasn’t a single “no” vote in the Senate.
your default reaction to hearing that some new bill is bipartisan should be to worry about how the two parties of capital are ganging up to screw the rest of us this time.
Centrists are cheering the new bipartisan infrastructure bill even though it slashes a range of vital spending programs contained in the original. We don’t need continued fetishization of bipartisanship...we need measures that actually aid the working-class majority
"The original bill had $387 billion for “housing, schools, and buildings.” The bipartisan version has $0. The original infrastructure bill had $400 billion for “home- and community-based care.” The bipartisan version has $0. Even “clean energy tax credits,” an absurdly inadequate response to the climate crisis, plummeted from $363 billion to $0. "
The gap between the bills is a catastrophe in human terms. What it has going for it is . . . bipartisanship.
whatever happens, it’s worth taking a moment to consider the absurdity of hundreds of billions of dollars of desperately needed aid being gutted from the infrastructure bill ...and a chorus of politicians and media figures telling us that this is an important Biden victory because the bill is now “bipartisan.”
your default reaction to hearing that some new bill is bipartisan should be to worry about how the two parties of capital are ganging up to screw the rest of us this time.
Centrists are cheering the new bipartisan infrastructure bill even though it slashes a range of vital spending programs contained in the original. We don’t need continued fetishization of bipartisanship...we need measures that actually aid the working-class majority
Biden ignores the ‘shiny objects’ and nears a bipartisan win
“Maybe professional politicians are actually good at politics.”
www.politico.com
Joe Manchin pledges to block Biden's infrastructure bill if Republicans aren't included
"I am not going to get on a bill that cuts them out completely before we start trying."
www.axios.com
"The original bill had $387 billion for “housing, schools, and buildings.” The bipartisan version has $0. The original infrastructure bill had $400 billion for “home- and community-based care.” The bipartisan version has $0. Even “clean energy tax credits,” an absurdly inadequate response to the climate crisis, plummeted from $363 billion to $0. "
The gap between the bills is a catastrophe in human terms. What it has going for it is . . . bipartisanship.
whatever happens, it’s worth taking a moment to consider the absurdity of hundreds of billions of dollars of desperately needed aid being gutted from the infrastructure bill ...and a chorus of politicians and media figures telling us that this is an important Biden victory because the bill is now “bipartisan.”