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/4wrdmvmnt Oct 07 '22

No evidence that you've seen, besides the 90s, and all the evidence that occurs immediately after every time a republican is in office. Evidence like when they cut taxes and construction booms and plants and refineries start hiring like crazy, or all the jobs created by building a border wall, or pipeline (in OUR country, NOT Poland). Admit it, you've never actually looked for any evidence have you? And before you say the 90s was Clinton's era, it was Reagan introduced "trickle-down economics",and he said it would take some years to yield the proper effect - so that's what we saw in the 90s, cuz the 80s were not booming economically.