Why Blame Biden When Republicans Are Stonewalling What the Public Wants?
President Biden is really doing a good job trying to fulfill the much desired social and infrastructure needs of the majority who elected him, and many of the opposition as well. Republicans have opposed anything that could be credited to Biden, as they did to President Obama, as McConnell ordered then.
To pass the national infrastructure bill, 13 brave Republicans voted for the bill, while three progressive Democrats voted against it. At first, there was a report that the Republican leaders would remove those Republicans from their committee assignments. However, honest or liberal news sources in Republican states reported how much each state will get for needed infrastructure, and also that no Republican Representative or Senator for the state voted for it. Although, they will all take credit for it, eventually. Finally, McConnell realized what the backlash would be and came out and thanked those 13 Rs for passing the bill. He rubbed it in by declaring the passage a “bipartisan” effort! The 13 out of 214 Rs are all of 6.1%. Hardly bipartisan in the House. However, 19 Republican Senators did vote for the bill, so that it passed with 69 Senate votes. All 50 states will be aided by the bill.
I hate to update this, but Marjorie Taylor Green came out and said the Republican supporters of infrastructure were committing treason and were communists. That would not be noteworthy, but Trump decided to follow her and agree with that. Trump did not manage to pass an infrastructure bill despite five years of promises. So MTG is now really leading the Republican Party. Also, 30% of Republicans now think that violence may be necessary to set the country straight.
The Rs will oppose the social bill as well. Here though, it is DINO Senator Manchin who will cut the much desired and economically stimulating bill in half. That would not occur with only a Single Republican vote for it.
Since Republicans are opposing any Climate Action expenditures, as Donald Trump did when President, I thought we need to see what the Earth would look like when all the ice melts, starting with the US. We clearly see the disappearance of the second largest Republican state, Florida. That is already starting with high tides flooding Miami. The website with the clearest map was pointing out that 12 MLB stadiums out of the 30 would be under water. California’s Central Valley get flooded, as well as the outlet of the Colorado river.
We now add the map of what the world will look like under Republican dominance and its fossil fuel funders.
By continued jerrymandering, voting limitations, fixing state voting oversight and giving their legislatures the power to override the legitimate vote counts, there is little doubt that the Republicans will win the midterms, and probably the next Presidency. Will the Trumpian Supreme Court ignore these new and unconstitutional powers? We have only the public and their influence to make progress against climate change in the US long run. The rest of the world in COP26 is right to question the viability of US commitments. The failure to convince some 60 million Americans to get vaccinated, where serious illness is at stake, means we will have a tough time with the more abstract and long term climate change.
By the way, it will take 5,000 years for all the ice to melt, but that is only how old some of our civilizations are.
Again, blaming Biden for Republican intransigence is ridiculous, but that is the world of delusion many now live in.
