Comments by "Kevin Street" (@Kevin_Street) on "Biden and Democrats Move Fast on COVID-19 Relief Despite GOP Obstruction: A Closer Look" video.

  1. Bernie Sanders is totally right about using reconciliation to pass that relief bill. The objection, as I understand it, is this will anger Republicans and undercut Biden's desire for bipartisanship. But the Republicans are already mad that Democrats exist in the first place and using reconciliation isn't going to make them hate their opposition any more than they already do. Their Hate knob broke off at the maximum setting some time back. What reconciliation will do is show the Republicans they're currently in a weak position and they can't bluff the Democrats into treating them like they're stronger than they really are. (Like in Obama's first two years.) Maybe that will force the more pragmatic among them to work with the Democrats once in a while. Probably not, but even it doesn't change the Republicans, that bill will give hundreds of millions of people the relief they need.
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