It should have been a Republican infastructure bill because it was the bare minimum to keep the status quo, but instead the actual Republican infastructure bill was “build nothing and cut taxes for the rich.” Doing nothing is what they want, as close to literally as possible.
So on the scale of the real world of one party fighting literally paving roads and shoring up crumbling bridges, it was actually a successful bill to pass.
Acceptance of the DNC’s Price Is Right strategy of being $1 better than the GOP perpetuates them continuing that strategy. On an indefinite timeframe, that leads to the GOP getting big things like Dobbs and us getting things like [checks notes] more lanes on I-90 in some midwestern shithole.
Because a center-right “democrat” president passed the republicans’ infrastructure bill for them.
It should have been a Republican infastructure bill because it was the bare minimum to keep the status quo, but instead the actual Republican infastructure bill was “build nothing and cut taxes for the rich.” Doing nothing is what they want, as close to literally as possible.
So on the scale of the real world of one party fighting literally paving roads and shoring up crumbling bridges, it was actually a successful bill to pass.
Acceptance of the DNC’s Price Is Right strategy of being $1 better than the GOP perpetuates them continuing that strategy. On an indefinite timeframe, that leads to the GOP getting big things like Dobbs and us getting things like [checks notes] more lanes on I-90 in some midwestern shithole.