Secretive_Victoria
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Bipartisan
Typically the word "bipartisan" is defined as involving cooperation and negotiation between members of two parties.
For instance, a bipartisan commission would involve cooperation, agreement, and compromise between two major political parties.
Often, compromises are called bipartisan if they reconcile the desires of both parties from an original version of legislation or other proposal.
However, when Republicans use the word “bipartisan” they mean something totally different.
Republicans didn’t cooperate or compromise during the six years when they held a Senate majority.
Quite the opposite.
Mitch McConnell blocked former President Obama’s agenda and judicial nominees, and for the past two McConnell blocked almost all bills passed by the Democratic majority in the U.S. House—including legislation to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
He bragged about the "graveyard" on his desk where bills went to die.
Republicans regularly passed legislation without a single Democratic vote, including when they gave away trillions of dollars of tax cuts to the one percent and big corporations in 2017. Now that we want to invest trillions of dollars in struggling people and families instead, the Republicans have their panties in a bunch.
Republicans in office have been morally bankrupt throughout the pandemic, needlessly contributing to the deaths of over 450,000 residents of this country. Most congressional Republicans sided with Trump and against the American people last month by voting to overturn the results of our November 2020 presidential election. Fortunately, they did not succeed.
Now they’re telling Democrats and the American people to “get over” January 6th’s attack on our lives and our democracy, to “move on” and not hold them or Trump accountable for a deadly attempted coup where Trump’s violent supporters killed people and came close to kidnapping and assassinating elected officials like Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.
Now, the very same congressional Republicans who’ve threatened Democrats’ lives, incited an attack on our Capitol, and tore this country apart are fighting new Capitol building security measures like metal detectors, boasting about bringing guns to Congress, and failing to wear masks around us.
They don’t get to talk about “healing and unity” in their attempt to escape accountability.
While the vast majority of Americans want to see Donald Trump held accountable for his actions, the Republicans want Trump to get off Scott Free. While the vast majority of Americans want a large stimulus bill to help Americans who are suffering and to help jump-start a stalled economy, the Republicans are opposed to doing anything that will help the American people. While the vast majority of the American People favor facemask mandates and social distancing to limit spread of a deadly virus, Republicans refuse to wear masks and try to equate going maskless in public is somehow an expression of “freedom”.
When the Republicans call for “bipartisanship,” they mean they want to continue to fail to serve the American people, and they want the Democrats to back off so nobody can hold the Republican Party accountable.
Typically the word "bipartisan" is defined as involving cooperation and negotiation between members of two parties.
For instance, a bipartisan commission would involve cooperation, agreement, and compromise between two major political parties.
Often, compromises are called bipartisan if they reconcile the desires of both parties from an original version of legislation or other proposal.
However, when Republicans use the word “bipartisan” they mean something totally different.
Republicans didn’t cooperate or compromise during the six years when they held a Senate majority.
Quite the opposite.
Mitch McConnell blocked former President Obama’s agenda and judicial nominees, and for the past two McConnell blocked almost all bills passed by the Democratic majority in the U.S. House—including legislation to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
He bragged about the "graveyard" on his desk where bills went to die.
Republicans regularly passed legislation without a single Democratic vote, including when they gave away trillions of dollars of tax cuts to the one percent and big corporations in 2017. Now that we want to invest trillions of dollars in struggling people and families instead, the Republicans have their panties in a bunch.
Republicans in office have been morally bankrupt throughout the pandemic, needlessly contributing to the deaths of over 450,000 residents of this country. Most congressional Republicans sided with Trump and against the American people last month by voting to overturn the results of our November 2020 presidential election. Fortunately, they did not succeed.
Now they’re telling Democrats and the American people to “get over” January 6th’s attack on our lives and our democracy, to “move on” and not hold them or Trump accountable for a deadly attempted coup where Trump’s violent supporters killed people and came close to kidnapping and assassinating elected officials like Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.
Now, the very same congressional Republicans who’ve threatened Democrats’ lives, incited an attack on our Capitol, and tore this country apart are fighting new Capitol building security measures like metal detectors, boasting about bringing guns to Congress, and failing to wear masks around us.
They don’t get to talk about “healing and unity” in their attempt to escape accountability.
While the vast majority of Americans want to see Donald Trump held accountable for his actions, the Republicans want Trump to get off Scott Free. While the vast majority of Americans want a large stimulus bill to help Americans who are suffering and to help jump-start a stalled economy, the Republicans are opposed to doing anything that will help the American people. While the vast majority of the American People favor facemask mandates and social distancing to limit spread of a deadly virus, Republicans refuse to wear masks and try to equate going maskless in public is somehow an expression of “freedom”.
When the Republicans call for “bipartisanship,” they mean they want to continue to fail to serve the American people, and they want the Democrats to back off so nobody can hold the Republican Party accountable.
