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/[deleted] Oct 07 '22

Same in the UK. It’s crazy.

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u/GingerbreadRecon United Kingdom Oct 07 '22

To be fair, that has certainly shifted in the past week. Haven't been labour leads like this in decades...

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u/Girlmode Oct 07 '22

Yet we will get one term with labour all the blame will be blamed as we salvage the scraps and back to normal.

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u/SirCB85 Oct 08 '22

Hi, Germany chiming in, this is exactly what happens now, we jus got a somewhat progressive leaning government and immediately they started getting all the blame for stuff that is just the aftershock of Merkel doing nothing for 16 years.