Senate votes to open floodgates, passes bipartisan $35 billion water infrastructure bill

[ancianita]

4. They'll be using this one bipartisan bill to vote no on all the rest. They just passed a public

campaign test for 2022 that they think will disprove their reputation for obstructing lawmaking.

They'll get to proclaim "see? we can govern, too."
They'll claim that Democrats are lying about wanting bipartisanship, and will say for all future bills that the Dems don't "compromise" the way they have.

This is lucy's football held down, which will in the future be yanked every time we charlies 'hope' the lucys will hold it.

As for the rest of the party, the red state battleground level will doggedly persist to "prove" Trump won with a private ninja force taking over publicly owned election ballot counting, to keep belief in Biden's illegitimacy, and their voting base's denials, suspicions and grievances alive.

Even as police murder and mass shootings might recede, the unvaccinated will keep waiting and suffering with pride.