It’s Harder To Obstruct When You Don’t Have The Majority

A Facebook friend shared this excerpt from an Eric Boehlert piece.

It makes the good point that unity and conciliation is earned. The current Republican Party deserves none of it after the outraegous obstruction methods that they have employed. And the press is playing right into the Republican BS. And not just the right-wing squawk machine…we would expect nothing less from them…but when the New York Times starts playing the “but, what about…game”, its annoying and obnoxious and deserves to be ignored. Use the political power you were elected to use to pass powerful and popular legislation…and ignore that buzzing sound from the right. They don’t deserve anything but our scorn.

” The dirty little secret the press doesn’t like to dwell on, as it excitedly plays up the “unify” theme? Republicans are committed to opposing Biden, period. Just as they were committed to opposing President Barack Obama. The party’s radical obstruction has become so normalized over the last decade that journalists no longer recognize it. Instead, they start legislative conversations from a mythical starting point, assuming there are lots of open-minded Republicans who are willing to support Democratic legislation if the Democratic president would properly court them. (Obama got criticized for not knowing how to schmooze his opponents, as if that were the reason they wouldn’t budge.)

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That GOP partisanship has only hardened today.

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That includes the proposed Covid relief bill. Depicted in the press as being a deeply partisan and divisive issue, simply because the Republican Party stands opposed to the Democratic legislation, the bill enjoys sweeping support nationwide. Nearly 80 percent of Americans support sending $1,400 checks, 79 percent support federal support for state and local governments and 73 percent are in favor of extending unemployment benefits. Even among Republican voters, the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion relief bill gets higher approval marks than does Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

Politically, the bill represents a home run for Democrats, but the Associated Press depicts it as a “dilemma” for them because Republicans oppose it. (Why isn’t it a “dilemma” for the GOP?) And The Wall Street Journal stressed that Biden faced a “big decision” whether to pass the bill even if all Republicans objected. (Spoiler: He does not.) “

Check out the rest of this piece at…

https://pressrun.media/p/bidens-already-uniting-the-country?fbclid=IwAR0Z7OH_GFpzjZSOPzQaXKU3UNxHU7kPa-g6SuiT0T6SZeSBT2jw6XlhDjc

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It’s Harder To Obstruct When You Don’t Have The Majority

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