Blaming "Congress" for the failure to pass a relief bill when Democrats have supported one since May and Republicans have consistently blocked it is essentially a contribution in kind to the Republican Senate conference
The bad faith of Republican negotiation blaming "Congress" willfully covers for is best exemplified by Pat Toomey risking blowing up negotiations by trying to take stabilizing powers away from the Federal Reserve: lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/12/republ…
Is there any principle involved here? Haha no, the Republican conference actively supported these measures under a Republican administration. They just want people to lose their jobs, homes and in some cases lives to handicap a Democratic administration. That's it.
Nor is there any political cross-pressure at work here. Toomey isn't running again and there's no mass constituency at all for this. There's no Both Sides here. Republicans are the reason there's no deal yet AND while if there's a deal it will be massively inadequate.
As I've said before, it's amazing that the line The Simpsons 26 years ago correctly identified as the laziest, most hackneyed analysis imaginable remains a staple of Savvy punditry across the ideological spectrum

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