July 28, 2022
Republicans take another run at Lucy’s football
By John Green
Let’s climb on board the “wayback machine” and take a journey to the distant time of summer, 2021. To fulfill his “return to normalcy” pledge, Joe Biden was demanding a budget-busting (and inflation-triggering) $1.2T for infrastructure, and another $5T for Build Back Better (to apparently build it back better after he gets done breaking it). Republicans (of the Vichy RINO variety) feverishly negotiated with the Dems to avoid fiscal Armageddon. They successfully negotiated Armageddon down to a mere total disaster -- agreeing to give the Dems a paltry $1.2T to distribute to their leftist pals.
President Asterisk held a rose garden announcement for the big reveal -- showing the world the sting they had just pulled off. He announced on national television that he and the congressional Democrats had dupped the Republicans. He was taking the infrastructure bill to the bank, and the Democrats would be pursuing the Build Back Better bill through reconciliation. The Republicans hadn’t negotiated the Democrats down from anything. Playing the part of Charlie Brown, the Republicans had taken one more shot at the football.
And there they were, the Vichy RINOs -- standing right next to Biden -- grinning like the village idiots he had made them. It was a learning opportunity -- if the RINOs had any capacity to learn. The whole episode once again proved the adage that there’s a sucker born every minute.
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