A bipartisan coronavirus relief bill would be easier to pass: GOP Sen. Rob Portman

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Coronavirus relief would be easier to pass if it were truly bipartisan, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

"There's an easy answer to this, let's make it bipartisan," Portman told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos.

"We can continue to work together and in this case, it would be very easy to get Republican support for a COVID relief package," he added.

But according to the New York Times, there is Republican voter support for this package -- 40%.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-bipartisan-coronavirus-relief-bill-would-be-easier-to-pass-gop-sen-rob-portman/ar-BB1e5ZPK?li=BBnbklE&ocid=DELLDHP

"It would be so much easier if the Democrats just voted for our bill." That's what you really mean Portman.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Portman is a Comedian??????

The GOP version would be bare bones. And the Democrats know it.

[East-A-Squared]

2. Hey Rob! What was bi-partisan about the Trump tax cuts?

[Horse with no Name]

3. Is this the part where it is stripped to the bones

To appease the fascists and they still don’t vote for it?

[SharonClark]

5. Yes, Grassley would approve that strategy.

[Laelth]

8. Yes. We have seen this before. n/t

-Laelth

[SharonClark]

4. Dems want their voters, not their elected officials.

Biden has many of them per the polls.

[Laelth]

6. Liar!

Republicans are determined to obstruct, no matter what. No bill will ever pass under a Democratic President if they have anything to say about it. It’s useless to even talk to them. Negotiation is impossible.

-Laelth

[JDC]

7. Ironically they are not in the least bit interested in bipartisanship

They just want to once again play the victims on TV and act like Dems are not being reasonable. Case in point the group who did not stay in Washington for Covid relief due to a "public health crisis," but are attending CPAC maskless.

No more letting talk of bipartisanship cloud our judgement. It is fruitless and nothing but a ploy to delay delay delay. And as so aptly mentioned above, it means nothing more than "do it our way or the highway."

[Make7]

9. Has he forgotten the last Covid relief bill already?

The House passed the HEROS act May 15th, 2020. After bipartisan "negotiations", a final bill passed Congress on December 21, 2020 — over seven months later. And the Former Guy threatened to veto it because the direct payments, that his negotiator (Mnuchin) agreed to, were too low.

I think we can do without bipartisanship like that again.

[OrlandoDem2]

10. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

[maxrandb]

11. Saw an editorial he did for the Cleveland Plain Dealer that basically said the same

I actually closed the paper to make sure I hadn't accidentally picked up Mad Magazine by mistake.

Then I realized, it wasn't even humorous satire...it was just fucking absurd.

Ohio has sunk to a dark place.