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@paulkrugman
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Jan 31
So Rs want Biden to drastically scale back economic relief in the name of bipartisanship. Their offer is insultingly inadequate, and their claims that using reconciliation would "poison the well" are rich given how they rammed through the 2017 tax cut. But there's more 1/
Why, exactly, is bipartisanship something to be valued right now? When a political party by and large still won't accept Biden's legitimacy and embraces Jewish space laser people, why is it a virtue to cooperate with it? 2/
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btw: for those who wondered about my use of the word "shrill"
This is the definition I thought I was conveying:
the definition of shrill is someone or something that is loud and high-pitched, or that is loud and forceful.
https://www.yourdictionary.com/shrill
apologies to those who thought I was in anyway being offensive
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)That is the party that didn't even wait until Ruth Bader Ginsburg's body was cold to announce the confirmation hearings for her replacement.
Hotler
(11,544 posts)sandensea
(21,876 posts)Until they grow up - if that's still possible.
c-rational
(2,613 posts)dreamland
(964 posts)The rest of the states shouldn't need to suffer simply because they want to limit their budget. We can comply and let's see how they can explain to them r constituents that they successfully cut the money going to their state. This is the same argument the antivaxers or antiabortion people use. None for you because I don't want it.
mollie8
(163 posts)or we could redo the tax code to eliminate all those tax cuts for the richest that the republicans passed. That should take care of the deficit...Is this possible?
Ferrets are Cool
(21,134 posts)So, I deserve to be punished?
dreamland
(964 posts)Without people like you there, it's hard to bring change. I couldn't move to a red state, it takes willpower and courage, so no, I don't mean to punish you but your awful Reps.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,134 posts)catrose
(5,086 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(5,276 posts)dchill
(38,689 posts)Jay25
(417 posts)JHB
(37,170 posts)...that the Republicans would engage in insincere wingnut performance art.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,812 posts)Offer them a seat on the bus. When they refuse and cry about the upholstery, close the door and move on without them.
Those Sunday morning shows will have to interview their typical GOPer stars about things already done.
orleans
(34,148 posts)dems/obama tried bipartisanship for
health care
immigration
& the recovery act
and in all cases the bills got watered down
and the fuckers still didn't vote for them!
lark
(23,274 posts)They don't want to vote no on checks - know it will bite them in the future.
SunSeeker
(52,006 posts)calclar
(55 posts)...."I'm sure that I will receive hate from all of the the economic royalists....I welcome their hate!"
SunSeeker
(52,006 posts)electric_blue68
(15,175 posts)I would have tittled this maybe "Strong Krugman".
Shrill kind of implies something's annoying. Unless
the OP was seeing how the Rethuglicans would perceive
him.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,595 posts)Men, aren't "shrill", don't ya know? Men are "assertive" or "strident"....rarely, if ever, shrill.
All that aside, what PK wrote wasn't shrill.
Poiuyt
(18,143 posts)Shrill is a negative term. Krugman's remarks were right on target.
calimary
(81,772 posts)The cowards wont answer, though.
So screw em!
theneworiginal
(302 posts)their handling of MTG, putting her on committee
advertising their liaison with an EX-president
failing to admit that Biden even won
coordinating the defense of an Insurrection
That's some strong bipartisanship there. They really know how to lay on the charm.
Yeah, we should totally meet them halfway--maybe agree that sharks have laser beams and that Margie should go to bed without dessert. And maybe even give more money to billionaires with the COVID cash.
That seems fair.
Goodheart
(5,363 posts)Nitram
(23,187 posts)Stuart G
(38,486 posts)Beartracks
(12,869 posts)jimlup
(7,968 posts)Exactly...
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,187 posts)Let them say that if they are serious about working with Democrats.
And they also have to start respecting Democrats by calling the party it's proper name, the Democratic Party.
This is really basic stuff.
czarjak
(11,441 posts)amb123
(1,581 posts)and everything you stand for. It's as simple as that.