Republicans In Congress ‘Look As If They’re Just On The Wrong Page,’ Says Eugene Robinson | Deadline

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson and former Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe discuss Republicans uniting around their opposition to President Biden’s covid relief bill despite its bipartisan support beyond the beltway. Aired on 02/25/2021.
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Republicans In Congress ‘Look As If They’re Just On The Wrong Page,’ Says Eugene Robinson | Deadline

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  1. I hope that Joe Biden wins re-election in a bigger landslide than Reagan did in 1984 just to prove to republicans that they’re out of touch.

  2. How is the Republicans mindset who’s going to vote for them when they can’t even agree that people are in need and need financial assistance as well as food and water I just don’t understand.

    1. These people at MSNBC are parasites and predators, no one should believe a word out of their mouth at this point.

  3. Growing up my mother was republican and my dad Democrat. I never chose sides. They are gone.but I know now my dad was right.republicans are azzzz holes.

    1. I neither accepted nor denied anything, I simply pointed out the spite and hatred of the left, which is in evidence all over these pages. That said, first, you cannot simply give blanket coverage of tens of millions of people of different views across the right wing spectrum. We can agree that the outlying, crazed crackpots should be called out, but those are mental issues more than anything, they’re just completely bonkers. But I’ve noticed a whole swathe of those types on the left too, crazed radicals who shut down free speech, attack people in the street, riot, loot, burn down property, murder, arrange for people to be cancelled…..

      Wouldn’t you agree, in the interests of balance?

    2. @TheDiamond2009 No. One side currently commits 90% of our domestic terrorism and attempted an insurrection. It’s not an equal equation. Attempting to argue both sides are guilty without clarification lends legitimacy to right wing extremists.

    3. These people at MSNBC are parasites and predators, no one should believe a word out of their mouth at this point.

  4. They are just trying to make President Biden look like or become a failure. That is not governing for the people that is obstructionism

    1. Biden has done more in a month than trump did in 4 years. Why do certain kind of people back him because they think and feel like him

    2. These people at MSNBC are parasites and predators, no one should believe a word out of their mouth at this point.

  5. I can’t imagine a sane person voting Republican. They need to be a fringe third party that never wins at this point.

    1. @Brian Nave Democrats are fighting for everyone’s quality of life, not just the richest. How’s that bad? And communism is not what democrats are about, either.

    2. @Brian Nave So you don’t know what the words democracy and communism mean, or, you don’t care about equality and freedom, or, possibly both?

    3. @RED PILL PORTAL You may be correct, but, statistically he is still more than likely brighter than your average republican!

    1. Well to be fair, neither did the democrats.
      Unless you missed all those billions going to that.
      Meanwhile the people are made to wait, for somehing that was promised instantly as he entered office. It already changed the amount from $2000 to $1400, then changed based on income from 2019 (so before the pandemic), meaning many who are jobless now wont see a dime if they weren’t jobless for 2 years now…

      They dont need republicans for this, they can pass something like this twice with just a majority.

    2. @Devo they don’t care the poor working people, they think they are in a diff. type of people, they only care about the rich, millionaires and billionaires…

  6. The republican party isn’t on the wrong page. They’re exactly where their corporate donors and lobbyists want them to be.

    1. nah the insurrection was a step to far… its bad for any company to be associated directly with insurrectionists and traitors… theyve been hemorrhaging support since then, ESPECIALLY corporate donors

  7. What republicans in congress fail to see is that every penny spent now in stimulus will come back dressed like a nickel.

  8. Republicans aren’t just “on the wrong page.” They have the wrong piece of paper and they’re holding it upside down.

  9. “The secret of freedom is educating the people, whereas the secret of tyranny is keeping them ignorant.” ~Robespierre
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” ~ Voltaire
    “There can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.” ~Abraham Lincoln
    “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” ~ Charles Bukowski
    “Everybody has a right to their opinion, but nobody has a right to be wrong in their facts.” ~ Bernard Baruch, quoted in 1946 AP article.
    “It’s easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.”
    ~ Mark Twain
    “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” ~ James A. Baldwin
    “When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.” ~ Isaac Asimov
    “If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.” ~ Ulysses S. Grant, 1875
    “When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” ~ Typically misattributed to Sinclair Lewis, the original source of this quote is unknown, but likely derived from labor activist Eugene V. Debs 1917 quote, “Every robber or oppressor in history has wrapped himself in a cloak of patriotism or religion, or both.”

    Before World War II, Charles Lindbergh typified American heroism with his daring flights, including the first solo transatlantic flight, and his celebration of new technology. He parlayed his fame and heroic stature into a leading role in the America First movement, which opposed America’s entrance into the war against Nazi Germany. In 1939, in an essay entitled “Aviation, Geography, and Race,” published in that most American of journals, Reader’s Digest, Lindbergh embraced something close to Nazism for America:

    “It is time to turn from our quarrels and to build our White ramparts again. This alliance with foreign races means nothing but death to us. It is our turn to guard our heritage from Mongol and Persian and Moor, before we become engulfed in a limitless foreign sea.”

    The America First movement was the public face of pro-fascist sentiment in the United States at that time. In the twenties and thirties, many Americans shared Lindbergh’s views against immigration, especially by non-Europeans. The Immigration Act of 1924 strictly limited immigration into the country, and it was specifically intended to restrict the immigration of both nonwhites and Jews.

    In this era, the likes of Toxic Trump and Marginalized Greene have become the face of the new “America First” fascist movement built up over the last four decades by the GOP, Reich-wing plutocrats, demagogues, and media. But, as with Lindbergh, the American people gradually come to recognize their dysfunctional poison and reject it. Most Americans understand, accept, and appreciate that the enduring strength of America is that we are a nation of immigrants and multiculturalism, a “melting pot” where the best ideas rise to the top, and superficial differences are meaningless in the face of our common humanity and purpose. Most Americans want competent leaders who speak truth, who strive to unite, who are not corrupt, who care about them. So, it should come as no surprise that President Biden is already receiving high marks from the public, while Toxic Trump never managed to rise above even a 50% approval rating. To conclude where begun, the following quotes are submitted for further reflection:

    “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” ~ George Santayana
    “History doesn’t repeat itself. But it does rhyme. ~ Mark Twain
    “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” ~ Aldous Huxley
    “If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  10. McConnell, who rammed the his tax steal with reconciliations, he almost ended Obamacare the same way, now, old Moscow Mitch is whining that the covid relief package is being passed that way. Right!

  11. In an age of information, lies won’t stand well to the test of time, history will be recorded as it happened.

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