Thread by @LarryGlickman

So much of the reporting not only assumes good faith on the part of Republicans, it ignores McConnell’s explicit policy of rejecting any major Biden initiative (as the GOP did with Obama), no matter how necessary or popular. The faux naiveté is maddening. /1

Here’s a good example: a passage taking as fact “the fiscal austerity….emerging within her own [Capito’s] party.” As Joe Biden might say, “Come on, Man!” /2

And then there is this passage, in which Capito’s complete inversion of recent history is quoted at length, with no context whatsoever—say about how Obama wasted six months for Republican moderates to sign onto the ACA which they, predictably, rejected as a bloc. /3

What’s this? The GOP’s infrastructure “counter-offer” is insufficient, unserious, and funded by “vague plans”—kind of like the Republican “alternatives” to the ACA. Get me my smelling salts./4

This passage inaccurately makes Biden’s supposed refusal to “incorporate their input,” rather than the GOP policy of total obstructionism—which McConnell has not been shy about trumpeting since the first Obama administration—the issue. /5

Link to full article./6
washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021…