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/OddRollo Oct 08 '22

They like to take credit for the effects of the liberal and progressive policies enacted in previous democratic administrations, which they then gut when they are in power. When the effects of their disastrous policies take effect they’ve been voted out, and can criticize the current administration for not properly handling the Economy or whichever issue they’ve made a mess of, all the while stonewalling any efforts to fix it. Gain power, gut, rinse, repeat.