| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| Trump could never do infrastructure because he didn't know | 2021-11-15 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460380544005378049 | 1460380544005378049 |
| "the United States became less future-oriented, less | 2021-11-15 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460258876381536261 | 1460258876381536261 |
| Mayor Pete goes national. | 2021-11-14 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459959042823000064 | 1459959042823000064 |
| GOP wants to torpedo "bipartisan" infrastructure bill, | 2021-11-12 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459009537482969091 | 1459009537482969091 |
| the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is "constitutionally | 2021-11-10 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458241620361367553 | 1458241620361367553 |
| Old wells keeping leaking poisons. | 2021-09-25 | 420 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441569592510337027 | 1441569592510337027 |
| The unlikely link between infrastructure and | 2021-08-12 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1425714776638824449 | 1425714776638824449 |
| The Senate is designed to optimize doing nothing. | 2021-08-09 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1424773097748504585 | 1424773097748504585 |
| "looks like a victory if one accepts the dysfunction of | 2021-08-07 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1423861070838468608 | 1423861070838468608 |
| Lobbyists weigh in to block infrastructure bill. | 2021-08-06 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1423646938147155971 | 1423646938147155971 |
| The infrastructure bill might do a lot of good if it passes | 2021-07-30 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1421163996346863616 | 1421163996346863616 |
| No matter what the Democrats do, there probably aren't 10 | 2021-07-21 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1417705787401457665 | 1417705787401457665 |
| As expected, GOP will find a way to vote NO, no matter what | 2021-07-20 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1417300903246254083 | 1417300903246254083 |
| Why is infrastructure so expensive in America? | 2021-07-01 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1410738916450209797 | 1410738916450209797 |
| Sanders holding the progressives behind Biden's agenda. | 2021-07-01 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1410418109404508162 | 1410418109404508162 |
| There's no there there. | 2021-06-29 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1409877247662735376 | 1409877247662735376 |
| We won't know if there ever really was a deal until there's | 2021-06-29 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1409692130293948418 | 1409692130293948418 |
| Maybe there wasn't a bipartisan deal after all! | 2021-06-26 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1408646056351453185 | 1408646056351453185 |
| Announcing a deal that might not amount to anything. | 2021-06-25 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1408514884522835969 | 1408514884522835969 |
| No doubt the "moderate" GOP senators will help draft a | 2021-06-18 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1405708918303559682 | 1405708918303559682 |
| Everybody's got a bipartisan infrastructure plan. | 2021-06-15 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1404661282553307137 | 1404661282553307137 |
| Why the GOP will never sign off on Biden's infrastructure | 2021-06-11 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1403206032998879232 | 1403206032998879232 |
| You'd have to be Republican to understand! | 2021-06-11 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1403198816736538624 | 1403198816736538624 |
| Time was not the Democrats' friend in 2009. | 2021-06-05 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1401022611170074628 | 1401022611170074628 |
| It's a waste of time to seek bipartisanship on | 2021-05-26 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1397385828180004865 | 1397385828180004865 |
| No deal on infrastructure! | 2021-05-24 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1396687494108778498 | 1396687494108778498 |
| "tax hikes on corporations or the wealthiest Americans | 2021-05-21 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1395575453751017484 | 1395575453751017484 |
| Xi intends to prove that dictatorship produces more | 2021-05-06 | 54 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1390114862831783940 | 1390114862831783940 |
| Strange definition of negotiation. | 2021-05-03 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1389248750233604099 | 1389248750233604099 |
| Infrastructure is the public works foundation on which | 2021-04-27 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386892212726685697 | 1386892212726685697 |
| Fake bipartisanship. Budget cuts and tax cuts - just | 2021-04-27 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386860898208256000 | 1386860898208256000 |
| Manchin explains infrastructure in WV - | 2021-04-26 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386829304726646784 | 1386829304726646784 |
| Infrastructure is? | 2021-04-26 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386820854428827649 | 1386820854428827649 |
| Not a serious proposal! | 2021-04-26 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386692232623759363 | 1386692232623759363 |
| Republican counter-proposal - it's all about who benefits | 2021-04-22 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1385349421316009992 | 1385349421316009992 |
| The GOP donors have spoken. No matter what GOP voters | 2021-04-13 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1381778298326282240 | 1381778298326282240 |
| GOP wants no part of it, except that part that funds | 2021-04-13 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1381776173043097602 | 1381776173043097602 |
| Republicans oppose Biden's infrastructure plan - but | 2021-04-13 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1381770630048047108 | 1381770630048047108 |
| Building support for infrastructure. | 2021-04-12 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1381590015491198978 | 1381590015491198978 |
| Reviving the American System - | 2021-04-10 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1380749778976301058 | 1380749778976301058 |
| Might as well go for the whole package - no matter what, | 2021-04-09 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1380369300955881480 | 1380369300955881480 |
| Republican messaging taking hold? | 2021-04-05 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1379041168198049792 | 1379041168198049792 |
| The transcontinental railroad was a hard sell too. | 2021-04-03 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1378195636487561222 | 1378195636487561222 |
| Ways Democrats could sink Biden's infrastructure plans. | 2021-04-03 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1378193729312280579 | 1378193729312280579 |
| "American exceptionalism has led to an exceptional, | 2021-04-03 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1378164527359922176 | 1378164527359922176 |
| Labor lines up to support Biden infrastructure plan. | 2021-04-02 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1378036568691118080 | 1378036568691118080 |
| What's more important to avoid, tax increases or bridges | 2021-03-31 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1377136479508385792 | 1377136479508385792 |
| An infrastructure bill at last? | 2021-02-13 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1360394830698868736 | 1360394830698868736 |
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========== Trump could never do infrastructure because he didn't know how to work with Congress - and because the GOP is even less united than the Democrats, once they leave their home turf of tax cuts, deregulation, and reactionary judiciary. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-poised-to-sign-12-trillion-infrastructure-bill-fulfilling-campaign-promise-and-notching-achievement-that-eluded-trump/2021/11/15/1b69f9a6-4638-11ec-b8d9-232f4afe4d9b_story.html #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 13 time 2021-11-15 22:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460380544005378049 ========== "the United States became less future-oriented, less concerned with future generations, beginning around 1970" coinciding with the advent of the Southern Strategy that led to the takeover by the Dixiecrats. https://apnews.com/article/climate-joe-biden-business-congress-economy-b5b8cca843133de060778f049861b144 #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 11 time 2021-11-15 14:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460258876381536261 ========== Mayor Pete goes national. https://apnews.com/article/pete-buttigieg-infrasctructure-transportation-cd69c9f2942df561ae0dc1a69ed0c8b7 How many GOP legislators have ever changed a diaper? Or had their neighborhoods divided by a new freeway? #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 30 time 2021-11-14 18:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459959042823000064 ========== GOP wants to torpedo "bipartisan" infrastructure bill, so Democrats have to sell it themselves. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-congress-transportation-health-1787854f69826c41230d907de3b8134a #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 76 time 2021-11-12 04:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459009537482969091 ========== the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is "constitutionally incapable of investing in America’s future" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/opinion/infrastructure-bill-biden.html Trump couldn't draft an infrastructure bill, but Biden got one passed - with a little GOP help, which was denounced by most of the GOP. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 24 time 2021-11-10 01:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458241620361367553 ========== Old wells keeping leaking poisons. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-environment-and-nature-coronavirus-pandemic-6c9acfd67f2cb490f11b701df208a724 Nobody's responsible for most of them. Biden was hoping to start tackling the problem with his infrastructure bill. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 420 time 2021-09-25 01:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441569592510337027 ========== The unlikely link between infrastructure and cryptocurrencies. https://apnews.com/article/technology-joe-biden-business-bills-cryptocurrency-92628a41124230448f65fdeb89ffad7d The value cryptocurrencies add to legitimate business is small. But the value to criminal enterprises - priceless! #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 39 time 2021-08-12 07:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1425714776638824449 ========== The Senate is designed to optimize doing nothing. https://apnews.com/article/business-tennessee-election-2020-campaign-2016-1ced7b032ff6a7646cd36e314a0e0aa2 It's a minority rule dream. Trump didn't know how to get a bill through Congress, and he resents Biden's success. Sometimes it helps to know what you're doing. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 46 time 2021-08-09 16:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1424773097748504585 ========== "looks like a victory if one accepts the dysfunction of the Senate as a natural obstacle, not a self-imposed limit on effective and responsive governance" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/06/opinion/senate-infrastructure-bill-bipartisan.html Effective and responsive governance is the last thing minority rule needs. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 36 time 2021-08-07 04:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1423861070838468608 ========== Lobbyists weigh in to block infrastructure bill. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/06/crypto-bitcoin-infrastructure-senate/ Everybody is in favor of infrastructure, as long as somebody else has to pay for it. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 27 time 2021-08-06 14:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1423646938147155971 ========== The infrastructure bill might do a lot of good if it passes https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/29/infrastructure-bill-passed-senate-legislate/ and might lead to other better things if GOP senators can learn to tune out Trump while pretending not to. But there's still a long way to go - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/29/infrastructure-deal-will-do-lot-good-its-not-proof-healthy-democracy/ #PS1infrastructure ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 34 time 2021-07-30 17:41 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1421163996346863616 ========== No matter what the Democrats do, there probably aren't 10 GOP senators willing to give Biden a win. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-health-government-and-politics-business-coronavirus-pandemic-7c8454b6018332a678a2333cde0cf9dd Though if he can get it passed anyway, they'll all claim credit for projects funded in their states. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 37 time 2021-07-21 04:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1417705787401457665 ========== As expected, GOP will find a way to vote NO, no matter what the bill says, or else delay until after the next election. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-infrastructure-deal-peril/2021/07/19/8e5478be-e8a1-11eb-97a0-a09d10181e36_story.html Thus Trump could never get an infrastructure bill past the Senate GOP caucus, much less the whole Congress. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 43 time 2021-07-20 01:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1417300903246254083 ========== Why is infrastructure so expensive in America? https://www.vox.com/22534714/rail-roads-infrastructure-costs-america There's a host of reasons, but one is - surprise! - rich people who can afford enough lawyers can stop almost anything. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 27 time 2021-07-01 23:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1410738916450209797 ========== Sanders holding the progressives behind Biden's agenda. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/30/biden-wins-substance-so-mcconnell-clings-process/ #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 28 time 2021-07-01 02:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1410418109404508162 ========== There's no there there. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/06/29/infrastructure-white-house-plan/ If infrastructure passes, it will mostly be deficit spending. The supposed revenue sources are mostly imaginary. The GOP won't vote for any IRS funding to go after GOP donors. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 20 time 2021-06-29 14:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1409877247662735376 ========== We won't know if there ever really was a deal until there's a bill passed and on Biden's desk. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/28/three-things-that-could-still-blow-up-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal/ And McConnell and others intend to block any Biden initiatives no matter what. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 22 time 2021-06-29 01:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1409692130293948418 ========== Maybe there wasn't a bipartisan deal after all! https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-government-and-politics-7f9226bb825fcf72f2fe5056d1e20ac4 In Silicon Valley this is called the "Friday afternoon bug" and somebody has to work on the weekend! #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 32 time 2021-06-26 04:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1408646056351453185 ========== Announcing a deal that might not amount to anything. https://apnews.com/article/biden-senate-infrastructure-deal-731487d7540cdf7e48c27124c43cc2d1 Althought Biden conceded on most points, there might not be 10 GOP votes in the Senate, because McConnell opposes the next, linked part of the deal that involves reconciliation. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 50 time 2021-06-25 19:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1408514884522835969 ========== No doubt the "moderate" GOP senators will help draft a bipartisan bill... and then vote against it with their GOP colleagues to maintain party unity. Though GOP donors like public-private partnerships. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/us/politics/democrats-infrastructure-deal-congress.html We've seen this movie. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 39 time 2021-06-18 02:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1405708918303559682 ========== Everybody's got a bipartisan infrastructure plan. But nobody has 60 Senate votes for it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/06/14/congress-white-house-infrastructure/ #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 37 time 2021-06-15 04:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1404661282553307137 ========== Why the GOP will never sign off on Biden's infrastructure plans. They wouldn't even sign off on Trump's! Because there's nothing in it for the major GOP donors, so why bother? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/opinion/why-wont-republicans-rebuild-america.html #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 75 time 2021-06-11 04:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403206032998879232 ========== You'd have to be Republican to understand! "the package would not include tax increases... the package does propose that the gas tax be indexed to rise at the rate of inflation" Meaning no tax increases on major GOP donors? https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-joe-biden-4f93bdf711564f724282b323eb7f9b30 #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 73 time 2021-06-11 03:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403198816736538624 ========== Time was not the Democrats' friend in 2009. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/us/politics/biden-infrastructure-republicans-obama-healthcare.html It's not in 2021, either. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 42 time 2021-06-05 03:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1401022611170074628 ========== It's a waste of time to seek bipartisanship on infrastructure. GOP will only vote on proposals paid by users, never for increasing taxes on their donors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/05/25/white-house-republicans-infrastructure-talks/ #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 43 time 2021-05-26 02:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1397385828180004865 ========== No deal on infrastructure! https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-government-and-politics-8277ba4582824133eb31690d0f48f0c7 GOP has its orders from its donors and favors taxing the middle class and poor to benefit the rich; the Democrats the opposite. Neither is budging. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 35 time 2021-05-24 04:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1396687494108778498 ========== "tax hikes on corporations or the wealthiest Americans are nonstarters" https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-6cbf6ae4cb2f23783f515d5991adb692 The GOP purpose of government is to funnel money upward to the donors, not downward to the voters. That's why Trump's infrastructure plans were just talk. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 47 time 2021-05-21 03:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1395575453751017484 ========== Xi intends to prove that dictatorship produces more prosperous populations than democracy. Why is the GOP trying so hard to prove his point? https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/biden-speech-congress-china-competition-infrastructure-research-education-20210429.html #PS1infrastructure ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 54 time 2021-05-06 01:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1390114862831783940 ========== Strange definition of negotiation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/02/is-white-house-wise-gops-infrastructure-ruse/ But redefining words and ideas is part and parcel of the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat-Republican Party. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 30 time 2021-05-03 16:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1389248750233604099 ========== Infrastructure is the public works foundation on which private works are built. No foundation, no building. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/opinion/infrastructure-definition-history.html #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 57 time 2021-04-27 03:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386892212726685697 ========== Fake bipartisanship. Budget cuts and tax cuts - just what you'd expect from GOP. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/26/republicans-make-biden-an-infrastructure-offer-he-has-refuse/ And lies about it - also what you'd expect. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 58 time 2021-04-27 01:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386860898208256000 ========== Manchin explains infrastructure in WV - https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-business-environment-and-nature-1ee4ba04f4f49246b19d1e025bec3586 It don't mean a thing if it don't got that swing for coal mines and coal miners. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 74 time 2021-04-26 23:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386829304726646784 ========== Infrastructure is? "the infrastructure of democracy - the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities, which allows a people to choose their own way" - Ronald Reagan https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/opinion/infrastructure-biden.html But this time, Joe Manchin says what it is. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 82 time 2021-04-26 23:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386820854428827649 ========== Not a serious proposal! https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/04/26/republicans-budget-spending-infrastructure/ Let the GOP draft a bill that shows exactly which taxes they are going to increase - especially the "user fees", which previous appropriations they are going to revoke, and what those funds will pay for. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 75 time 2021-04-26 14:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386692232623759363 ========== Republican counter-proposal - it's all about who benefits and who pays. https://apnews.com/article/politics-technology-business-government-and-politics-a50c67d13802026231ee29467efc8abe #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 41 time 2021-04-22 21:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1385349421316009992 ========== The GOP donors have spoken. No matter what GOP voters might want, no GOP legislator will vote for taxing corporations or on the rich - on their donors - the "job creators" in GOP-ese. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/04/12/biden-infrastructure-congress/ But infrastructure creates jobs too. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 62 time 2021-04-13 01:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1381778298326282240 ========== GOP wants no part of it, except that part that funds their state. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-us-news-6b5adef4ce58bc768d94f525810bf775 #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 52 time 2021-04-13 01:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1381776173043097602 ========== Republicans oppose Biden's infrastructure plan - but they still want to make sure it includes their favorite projects. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/11/us/politics/biden-infrastructure-congress.html #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 54 time 2021-04-13 00:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1381770630048047108 ========== Building support for infrastructure. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-us-news-6b5adef4ce58bc768d94f525810bf775 But Republican legislators' job #1 is preserving the past by defending their donors from tax increases, not building for the future. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 54 time 2021-04-12 12:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1381590015491198978 ========== Reviving the American System - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_System_(economic_plan) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/opinion/biden-economic-plan.html #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 66 time 2021-04-10 05:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1380749778976301058 ========== Might as well go for the whole package - no matter what, Republicans will vote no either because of deficits or taxes or, most likely, to build their case for 2022 that Biden did nothing. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/opinion/biden-infrastructure.html #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 60 time 2021-04-09 03:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1380369300955881480 ========== Republican messaging taking hold? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-attacks-biden-infrastructure-debt/2021/04/04/321ad05a-93b7-11eb-a74e-1f4cf89fd948_story.html Will they succeed in convincing ordinary GOP voters that welfare for billionaire GOP donors is good but welfare for ordinary GOP voters is bad? #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 50 time 2021-04-05 12:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1379041168198049792 ========== The transcontinental railroad was a hard sell too. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/of-course-infrastructure-pays-for-itself-it-leverages-the-greatest-resource-on-earth/2021/04/02/fe10a00e-93ee-11eb-9668-89be11273c09_story.html #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 50 time 2021-04-03 04:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1378195636487561222 ========== Ways Democrats could sink Biden's infrastructure plans. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-need-help-to-torpedo-bidens-infrastructure-bill-will-democrats-give-it-to-them/2021/04/02/d41dc434-9321-11eb-9668-89be11273c09_story.html Republicans would be delighted. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 53 time 2021-04-03 03:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1378193729312280579 ========== "American exceptionalism has led to an exceptional, uniquely bad system for building infrastructure" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-bidens-new-deal-can-really-make-america-great-again/2021/04/01/667af1e0-9321-11eb-a74e-1f4cf89fd948_story.html FDR's team was a lot better at getting things done. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 68 time 2021-04-03 01:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1378164527359922176 ========== Labor lines up to support Biden infrastructure plan. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-politics-climate-climate-change-mitch-mcconnell-8a0046d1e39f5b6c815dfb8f938ac383 Labor doesn't have a problem with restoring corporate tax rates to pre-Trump. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 43 time 2021-04-02 17:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1378036568691118080 ========== What's more important to avoid, tax increases or bridges falling down? https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-coronavirus-pandemic-united-states-e6443ea6193eb2f38980c904983bcccf Ask any major GOP donor or any GOP senator! But they might consider public-private partnerships where public takes the risk and private takes the profit. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 61 time 2021-03-31 05:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1377136479508385792 ========== An infrastructure bill at last? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/12/bring-infrastructure-week/ To get Republican votes, the bill has to avoid any elements that annoy major Republican donors, such a tax increases on the wealthy. #PS1infrastructure ===== impress 38 time 2021-02-13 01:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1360394830698868736