"Politically isolating": White House issues obstruction warning to GOP

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Mike Donilon, senior adviser to President Biden, argues in a memo to White House senior staff that GOP opposition to the COVID rescue package would shrink the party's already declining national support.

What they're saying: "There seems to be a growing conventional wisdom that it is either politically smart — or, at worst, cost-free — for the GOP to adopt an obstructionist, partisan, base-politics posture," Donilon writes in the two-page memo, obtained by Axios. "However, there is lots of evidence that the opposite is true: ... this approach has been quite damaging to them."

Between the lines: The memo cites a Morning Consult poll showing a Biden approval rating of 62% with registered voters. Just 23% of registered voters think the Republican Party is going in the right direction, while 63% say the party is on the wrong track.

Other data points: Tens of thousands of Republicans across the country have switched party affiliation since the Capitol riot, the N.Y. Times reports. The Economist/YouGov polling finds a decline in voters calling themselves Republicans since November (from 42% to 37%).

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politically-isolating-white-house-memo-105334057.html

[Maven]

1. Republicans in disarray! nt

[Wounded Bear]

2. If we can ram the Biden Rescue package thru, 2022 doesn't looks so grim...

not to get political, but we're in a time when doing the right thing should also be the best politics.

There is huge, widespread support for the stim/rescue package, we need to ride that and ram it thru, repub votes or no. When the money and the help get out there and Dems are the party that gets shit done, support will continue.

[cilla4progress]

3. That's the strategy -

They have all the "political capital" in the world rn and shouldn't shrink from spending it!

[BobTheSubgenius]

4. Wow, Yo_Mama! You are on fire today!

Anyway, I like this piece. Their knee-jerk reaction to bad polling data oozing from their pander-to-the-base mentality is to double down. Interesting.

"I am having great difficulty keeping my head above water and am in serious danger of drowning. I wonder of putting more rocks in my pockets will fix this?"