Originally Posted by Matter-eater Man
I think the bipartisan support it received despite the GOP’s increasing move to the extremist right speaks for itself. It wasn’t that long ago Trump was supposedly for an infrastructure bill like this one except it was for 2 trillion dollars. Honestly partisan fools that are only for something if it’s their party in charge look like the partisan fools they are. Our country needs to invest more into infrastructure at the end of the day. That was recognized as true when Trump was in office and is still true now that it’s Biden. Some things like national security and infrastructure need to be above petty bitter politics.


It received "bipartisan support" from a few RINOs who will be voted out of office in the next election, because they went so outrageously against the will of the constituents who voted for this "infrastructure" legislation, that is in fact only about 11% actual infrastructure spending, and the rest going to businesses and NGO's who are allies of the Democrat party. Such as Planned Parenthood, Soros-funded groups, and Catholic charities helping the Democrats covertly spread Covid-infected illegal immigrants and criminals on 4 AM flights across all 50 states.

It is a fact that Republicans voted in support of "infrastructure" spending in a misguided desire to reach across the aisle and try to find a middle ground. But they voted, naively, for a bill that wasn't even fully written, where the Democrats can deceitfully add whatever malevolent or ideologically hard-Left spending programs they want.

A prime example is Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) who was grilled about it beautifully by Laura Ingraham, where she politely told him how naive and stupid he was to go along with the bill, how the Democrats would betray that trust and ram in all kinds of radical spending not negotiated with Republicans, and asked Cassidy if he would be willing to come back on her show in a few weeks and admit later how wrong he was, and how badly his group of RINOs got shafted by the Democrats. It was a very aggressive interview, and Cassidy looked like the naive idiot he was, when on point after point Ingraham pried out of him that he didn't even know or understand the finer point of what he voted for. But she did! He never came back on (predictably) but she followed up just a few days later citing examples of how Democrats had already betrayed what they promised, and were piling on hard-Left add-ons they assured they had just assured they would not.
Many of the Republicans, both House and Senate members who voted for the infrastructure bill, are not running for re-election and have no accountability. And want to go out with a little favorable coverage from the Democrat-Newspeak press, who will be nice to them for caving in to the Democrats, but would have excoriated them as right-wing nazis if they had opposed it.