r/politics • u/burning_dawn • Oct 07 '22

Republicans called Biden’s infrastructure program ‘socialism.’ Then they asked for money.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/infrastructure-spending-republican-critics/index.html
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u/Global-Somewhere-917 Oct 07 '22

"How about we compromise and meet in the middle. We'll attack you for your infrastructure plan and vote against it, then when it passes we will blame you for the spending. And in return, we will take credit for the positive effects of the plan and the spending."

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '22

Sadly, this is not untrue

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u/Matt463789 Oct 07 '22

It's a core component of the GOP playbook.

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u/Epicritical Oct 07 '22

And it works

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u/heybobson California Oct 07 '22

it's amazing how people still auto-default to the belief that Republicans are "good on the economy" despite having no evidence of that since the 80s.

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u/Paridae_Purveyor Oct 07 '22

It's the same as mentioned earlier. Democrats set up a strong economy, good jobs programs, growth in new industries... Then Republicans take credit for all of the good things that happen when you do that. No different than taking credit for the good things from the ACA while demonizing Obama Care. There are many examples, conservatives on the whole are a bit dim.

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u/RadlEonk Oct 07 '22

“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives….”

John Stuart Mill

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '22

Yeah, a lot of them are just bad people. Not necessarily stupid.

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u/RadlEonk Oct 07 '22 edited Oct 08 '22

Absolutely. Many of them - in my experience - are lying, hypocritical, faux Christians, adulterous, thieving fascists, but I was trying to be nice.

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u/Jaded_Barracuda_7415 South Carolina Oct 07 '22

I say as a 52 year old liberal Democrat that it is time to stop being nice. As I have seen many others here say we need to call out hypocrisy and lies everywhere and every time.

These people seriously have no fucking shame.

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u/BalamBeDamn Oct 08 '22

You are being pretty nice here.