Thread by @LemieuxLGM

To state the obvious, the REAL question is how serious the REPUBLICANS are about bipartisanship, and the answer made clear by this feeble counteroffer is "not remotely"

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1356220775255183362

Democrats: win, offer package of policies with broad bipartisan popular support
Republicans: lose, offer 30 cents on the dollar, limiting or stripping out many popular provisions
Beltway media: why don't Democrats believe in compromise?

This combination of incredulity and contempt for the idea that the preferences of mere *voters* could be a meaningful consideration is pretty much the definitive manifestation of Beltway Pundit Brain lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/02/beltwa…

And it's worth emphasizing here that Republicans lost the Senate DESPITE THE ODDS BEING MASSIVELY STACKED IN THEIR FAVOR.

Why, then, should Senate Dems have the slightest obligation to give Republicans the time of day when they attack Dems for using the exact same procedural mechanisms Republicans use to pass massively unpopular policies to pass popular ones?

Do you recall any stories about how Republicans were obligated to try to find Democratic votes when Republicans were using reconciliation to pass an upper-tax cut less popular than leukemia? Me neither.

https://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte/status/1356230220009897994

Somebody should develop some kind of pithy “law” to describe the widespread assumption of Beltway hacks that only Democrats have any agency or causal influence over American politics.

I also missed all the stories about the necessity for bipartisan compromise when the party that was about to lose the popular vote for the 7th time in 8 elections was about to ram through a third life-tenured Supreme Court nominee on a party-line simple majority vote

The Sultan of Shrill gives the correct response nytimes.com/2021/02/01/opi…

Again, the idea that legislators who voted for a massive upper-class tax cut passed under reconciliation pretending to care that too many upper-middle-class families will get stimulus checks should be treated as if they're negotiating in good faith is absurd