GOP erupts over its House members bailing out Biden

[Zorro]

In Tuesday’s election, Republicans served notice that the clock is ticking on Democrats’ slim majorities in Congress. On Friday, 13 House Republicans delivered the decisive votes to rescue a key part of President Biden’s agenda — an agenda endangered by those in his own party.

Ensue the bloodletting.

Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill passed late Friday night and is headed for his signature after months of intense wrangling over the details — particularly whether it would be tied to a larger spending plan that progressives insisted upon passing alongside it. But in the end it wasn’t really those progressives who provided the key votes, but rather the 13 Republicans. The final vote count was 228 to 206, meaning if no Republicans had voted for the bill, it wouldn’t have passed.

And some Republicans are predictably furious — with undersold questions about House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) future leadership of the party potentially in the offing.

“I can’t believe Republicans just gave the Democrats their socialism bill,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/06/fix-gop-infrastructure-defections/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. We are doomed if a liar with the IQ of a 9 yr old can lie about a bill and

nobody says anything.

I am so sick of this.

[Midnight Writer]

2. I reckon if we didn't get some GOP votes, the Squad would have bailed us out

Good to have some GOP support, but I seriously doubt we needed it in this case.

[patphil]

3. I thought the same thing. Their "no" votes were done knowing the bill would pass anyway.

[Me.]

6. Sorry, But, IMHO, If THe Past Is Prologue

I don't think we could've counted on them.

[left-of-center2012]

9. I agree with you. n/t

[Deminpenn]

7. +1

nt

[Claustrum]

4. I don't like this kind of framing.

It gives more credit to the GOP. It's nice they vote with us but it's mainly us that got the work done. They didn't "BAIL" us out.....

[wnylib]

8. I think the idea is that Republicans

view it as a traitorous "bailing out" of Dems by their fellow Republicans.

[Eyeball_Kid]

10. It's "war on the libs", the nation be damned. n/t

[chocolatpi]

5. Did we just observe pigs in flight?

Speaker Pelosi is the lady who can get things done. Brava Madame Speaker

[NowISeetheLight]

11. So fixing bridges and roads is "socialism"?

I like bridges that don't fall down and roads that don't ruin my car. I like schools that educate children and police service and fire service. "Socialism" is such a loaded term. When I look at the state of our healthcare system, the fact we spend 2-3x what other countries do per person on healthcare, the cost of prescription drugs, I wonder WHY? Well all the other industrialized countries have a national healthcare system and control costs. Socialism? I've always been a bit of a capitalist in some respects but I also realize certain things should be "socialized".

[Irish_Dem]

12. We only offer socialism to the wealthy corporate world, for the rest of us, it is brutal captitalism