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In reply to the discussion: Squad member to deliver response to Biden SOTU [View all]dpibel
(4,012 posts)I'm just not getting how you're thinking about this.
The part after your first boldface: "who have stymied Bidens social spending and climate change package." IOW, she is complaining that Biden's agenda is being stymied. This is not criticizing Biden. It is criticizing the people who are torpedoing Biden's agenda.
The part before your second boldface: "Tlaib will praise Bidens stimulus bill." Again, hard for me to comprehend how that constitutes ragging on Biden.
Your third bold is the writer's opinion and nothing more. It what the writer claims is the inference from Tlaib's remarks (which the writer has not seen--just a summary). I really don't believe you can blame Rashida Tlaib for Holly Otterbein's opinion.
Finally, as everyone knows, the vote you reference in your last paragraph was one that was taken when it was clear that the proposition would pass without the vote of Tlaib or other Squad members. The reason for the vote was clearly articulated, and it was right: Splitting the two parts of Biden's propose infrastructure bill doomed the progressive part of the bill.
Finally, you seem to be of the opinion that that is the sole and only vote that Tlaib has made and thus she is wholly against Biden.
As discussed in this thread, according to 538.com, Tlaib has voted with Biden 92 percent of the time; there have been about 50 votes that 538 used to tabulate its numbers. Which means Tlaib has voted with Biden 48 times and against him twice, one time being the vote discussed above.
To pretend that Tlaib is some sort of wild card who never supports the President is to ignore the facts.