Stop giving credence to bad-faith negotiations on pandemic rescue package
NBC News publishes fantasy of compromise with Senate Republicans — who will continue to say, “No”
WRITTEN BY ERIC KLEEFELD
PUBLISHED 02/03/21 3:50 PM EST
Senate Democrats are proceeding with the budget reconciliation process as a means to pass a pandemic rescue package for the economy, after a group of 10 Republican senators presented a plan to President Joe Biden that was only a third the size of his $1.9 trillion relief proposal. But mainstream media still can’t give up the fantasy of pushing for an imagined bipartisan cooperation with Republicans.
The alternative to prolonged bipartisan negotiations, which Democrats largely doubt would get anywhere given expected Republican recalcitrance, would be for the newly elected administration to actually get something done.
Yet an NBCNews.com opinion piece from Tuesday evening, Covid stimulus checks and other aid talks show McConnell's era of just saying no has ended,” perfectly illustrates how this vacuous line of political commentary still lives on, and will be picked up in mainstream outlets.
https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/stop-giving-credence-bad-faith-negotiations-pandemic-rescue-package
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