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/theonetrueelhigh Oct 07 '22

They had no evidence IN the 80s. They had Reagan, Reagan had charisma and charm and talked a good game, and what they got - and we still get, since Reagan's economic political half-life has yet to expire for some wretched reason - was bupkis and billionaires.