The GOP is facing a double threat right now. Is that why they voted for infrastructure?

[Hamlette]

The hearings on January 6 make many in the GOP look insane. The public is seeing it was not tourists.

And the increase in Covid cases is pissing those of us who are vaccinated right off. We've had enough. They wouldn't wear masks and now their refusal to get vaccinated may well send us all back into lock up just in time for school to start next month.

Think about it. Schools open in August but have to close again because of the unvaccinated. And it is because of Republicans. The GOP should be scared of that.

We have nuts in our party (some Bernie folk joined QAnon after all) but we have not given them the keys to the car as the GOP has.

[LonePirate]

1. I saw Twitter theory that this vote made Manchin/Sinema less likely to support filibuster carve outs

It was based on the presumption that this bipartisan infrastructure deal proves the parties can come together on important legislation supported by the entire country or most of it anyway.

[Hamlette]

2. that would suck

but if we go back into lockdown/quarantine, I think some republicans might come our way

[moonscape]

4. Lawrence also said this yesterday on his show. That,

and McConnell sees how popular it is and that Repubs will be blamed if zero happens. Makes it easier to slam the rest of it.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. We have our share of anti-vax types too, but they go way back before the Covid days

I wish our side was immune to 'unscientific internet bullshit/woo' but it's not. There's just not nearly as many liberals with these whacky ideas, and they don't end up on the news nearly as much.

Just saying.

[GulfCoast66]

5. At least we did don't see them on DU anymore. We used to.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. I know but my hippie cousin is one ... super liberal but she's like 'if it grows from the ground

it's magic, and if people made it it's the devil' types.

Bless her heart, I love her, but she's pretty hippy-dippy

She is begrudgingly C19 vaccinated though cause she wants to live, I will give her that.

[GulfCoast66]

7. She got the jab. Reason seeped through.

Some people take a contrarian position because they are contrarian until they have real stakes. Then they fold.

Unfortunately there are true believers who seem in a hurry to meet their mythical maker.

We know a family who had an in-law die last October from Covid. They told my wife they could not wait until the election so Covid would end! Sure enough they did not get vaccinated. They all got Covid a month or so ago. The husband was in ICU and is still on oxygen.

They really owned me. As so many of the are.

The are welcomed to keep owning me.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

8. Yeah, my brother even tried to give me whole 'once the election comes it'll be over' BS in 2020

He's not the type that's all that sure about what to believe, doesn't follow the news much so he can be malleable at times when his handful of RW friends tell him stuff.

I set him straight on that noise cause fortunately he recognizes that his big bro is smarter than most people he knows. He's fully vaxxed now, got it right away when he could, thankfully.

But still, the right's fake news is a freaking cancer.

[GulfCoast66]

9. Good for you, man! Got him vaccinated.

You are a great brother. He may not know it yet.

Even my republican family is vaccinated. Although I know some actually vote Democratic. But in parts of the rural south they keep it quiet. Which is why I’m not there!

[WHITT]

10. If Moscow Mitch Voted For It

you know it's bad. The Repubs voted for the BIF because it's structured the way THEY wanted it. It underfunds all the stuff the Dems wanted, and is loaded with tolls, fees, and other things working people will have to pay, as well as Corporate Welfare with the dreaded public/private partnerships.

Can't wait to see the CBO score this monstrosity, with all the Smoke & Mirrors. It will depend how it was submitted though, as a member can order the CBO to accept their parameters, as in 2+2=5. But in more recent years the CBO will present what they were asked to score, but add that they don't accept the basis that 2+2=5. They've done this with the Repubs favorite, 'dynamic scoring', which is bullshit.