Chris Coons Is Worse Than Useless
I’m starting to think Chris Coons is taking revenge on Joe Biden for failing to name him Secretary of State.
Delaware’s bipartisanship show pony is at it again, going on Fox News yesterday to announce he and Sen. John Cornyn are working on an alternative to Biden’s infrastructure bill — one that would chop the bill in half, guaranteeing the other half would never be enacted, and postponing a vote on how to pay for it. In other words, let’s not fight — let’s half-ass the job instead.
Asked on “Fox News Sunday” by host Chris Wallace what’s in it for Republicans, he said the “broader question” is “what’s in it for our country and what’s in it for the people we represent from our states if Republicans and Democrats work together to solve problems? I think that if we come together in a bipartisan way to pass that $800 billion hard infrastructure bill that you were talking about, that I’ve been urging, then we show our people that we can solve their problems.”
Oooh, oooh, I know what’s in it for the people! The answer is: Absolutely nothing! People want their problems solved. They don’t give a flying fuck if the laws doing that are bipartisan or not, Chris. That’s just you, you cowardly pipsqueak.
[Coons] said that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have long understood that the country’s infrastructure needs to be repaired, “we just disagree about how to pay for it. But I think that’s the part we would agree on. So let’s do it and leave the rest for another day and another fight.”
How delusional is this assclown? So delusional that Cornyn disagreed with him during the same interview.
Wallace asked Cornyn if the GOP could act on a bipartisan basis to approve the infrastructure component and then allow Democrats to move ahead on a party-line vote on how to pay for it, including raising the corporate tax rate.
Cornyn, of Texas, said Coons is “half right.” Wallace asked Cornyn if the GOP could act on a bipartisan basis to approve the infrastructure component and then allow Democrats to move ahead on a party-line vote on how to pay for it, including raising the corporate tax rate, Cornyn, said Coons is “half right.”
“There is a core infrastructure bill that we could pass with appropriate pay-fors, like roads and bridges and even reaching out to broadband, which we’ve — this pandemic has exposed a great digital divide in this country. … I think we could all agree to that,” he said.
He then went on a typical Republican whine about Biden not being bipartisan.
It doesn’t take Nostradamus to understand what Cornyn is saying: Republicans will cooperate only to the extent it benefits them, at which point they will turn around and demonize Democrats yet again. Only a sap or a turncoat would fall for this again and again. In Coon’s case, there’s a term for people like him: From the Republican perspective, he’s a useful idiot.
Delaware will never be progressive until we institute a process for recall of public officials. Coons should be target No. 1.
Any Republican who votes for a major Democratic bill will face a primary from an even bigger RWNJ and will probably lose that primary. Coons isn’t going to find ten Republicans to sign up for that.
I doubt he finds two. I’d put the over/under at 1.5. And he’ll probably declare it a successful project if he gets one.
Coons and Biden will well remember Mike Castle faced and lost his primary in large part because he supported the Democratic cap and trade bill, which O’Donnell promised to vote against*. That’s the lesson Republicans learned about supporting Democratic bills.
*That didn’t work out too well for O’Donnell, or for cap and trade either, but it worked out fabulously for Coons.
Appalling.
Nobody know how to cover the depth of Coons’ idiocy.
Headlines like “Cornyn, Coons: Split of Infrastructure Bill Could Win Bipartisan Support” utterly ignore that fact that Cornyn said RIGHT UP FRONT that there will be no GOP votes.
Its fucking nauseating.
That is why we stpo by your blog.