Why Republicans won't agree to Biden's big plans and why he should ignore them

[Judi Lynn]

Robert Reich

Sun 31 Jan 2021 01.00 EST

If there were ever a time for bold government, it is now. Covid, joblessness, poverty, raging inequality and our last chance to preserve the planet are together creating an existential inflection point.

Fortunately for America and the world, Donald Trump is gone, and Joe Biden has big plans for helping Americans survive Covid and then restructuring the economy, rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure and creating millions of green jobs.

But Republicans in Congress don’t want to go along. Why not?

Mitch McConnell and others say America can’t afford it. “We just passed a program with over $900bn in it,” groused Senator Mitt Romney, the most liberal of the bunch.

Rubbish. We can’t afford not to. Fighting Covid will require far more money. People are hurting.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/31/republicans-biden-covid-trump-congress

[napi21]

1. Geeee...there's never a problem affording tax cuts though, is there? Dems must go it alone, at

least on this one. Later, with other projects, maybe there will be time to negotiate, but even then, we can always resort to our 51 majority. I know Joe wants bipartisanship, but if the other side doesn't want it too, we have to use our majority to the max. We all know (including Joe) that if the shoe was on the other foot, the Pubs would mow us down like weeds.

[bamagal62]

2. F**k them. Ignore them.

[iemitsu]

3. Tax the rich. Make America solvent again.

[Shermann]

4. I accept that everything is negotiable

But I reject the lowball Republican offer of 1/3. That is laughable even by Craigslist standards.

[badboy67]

5. GOP: if it's good for Main Street USA, then it's bad for us.