Facing GOP opposition, Biden seeks to redefine bipartisanship

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To hear President Biden and his team tell it, a successful bipartisan bill need not attract a single Republican vote. My story on Biden’s new definition of bipartisanship—>

Facing GOP opposition, Biden seeks to redefine bipartisanship
The president and his aides point to broad public support for many Democratic policies among voters in both parties, as well as Republican governors, mayors, and other local officials.
washingtonpost.com
5:09 PM · Apr 11, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-bipartisan/2021/04/11/65b29ad8-96f0-11eb-b28d-bfa7bb5cb2a5_story.html

To hear President Biden and his team tell it, a successful bipartisan bill need not attract a single Republican vote.

Biden pushed his $1.9 trillion covid relief bill through the Senate with the support of all 50 Democrats and nary a Republican, yet later declared it a resounding bipartisan triumph.

The president and his advisers have also signaled that, while they are planning robust outreach to Republican lawmakers, they are prepared to pass his infrastructure plan on the votes of Democrats alone — and call it a bipartisan victory.

“If you looked up ‘bipartisan’ in the dictionary, I think it would say support from Republicans and Democrats,” said Anita Dunn, a senior Biden adviser. “It doesn’t say the Republicans have to be in Congress.”

As the Biden administration prepares to pursue a broad agenda ranging from infrastructure to immigration to guns, the president and his aides have proffered a definition of bipartisanship untethered from Washington — pointing to broad public support for many Democratic policies among voters in both parties, as well as Republican governors, mayors and other local officials.

“Everybody said I had no bipartisan support,” Biden said recently in Pittsburgh, referring to the covid relief package as he unveiled the broad outlines of his infrastructure plan. “The overwhelming bipartisan support were Republican — registered Republican voters.”

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. 2 Jokers in the deck - Manchin and Sinema.

And Manchin could deliver huge benefits to his constituents who need a non-coal future.

[regnaD kciN]

3. "Need" a non-coal future...but do they WANT it...?

We already saw in 2016 that many there fall prey to the notion that there's some (unspecified, except by "keeping the dark-skinned people out" ) way of reviving and perpetuating the coal industry. Indeed, there are strong forces (guess which ones?) reinforcing that notion with the siren song that coal-mining is somehow more dignified and noble that other potential occupations that might have a longer lifespan (in every sense of the word), and that choosing to become, say, a computer programmer rather than a coal miner constitutes a humiliation.

[Cha]

2. Aha Got It! It is "Bi-Partisan" .. just"

No Magats! Boom.

Rt TY

[betsuni]

4. Excellent! Take back bipartisanship from Republicans.

Newt Gingrich, Grover Norquist comparing bipartisanship to "date rape" to Mitch McConnell calling himself the Grim Reaper of legislation and the party now a post-policy nut bowl (all white nuts).