I sometimes wonder if Coons is trolling me personally with the breathless hyperbole. Read on to see how Coonsian Bipartisanism just saved America.
Coons is talking about the “U.S. Innovation and Competition Act” which invest about $52 billion into US semiconductor production, another $81 billion to the National Science Foundation for “R&D”, funds some cyber defense stuff, and $1.5 billion for broadband.
So Coons is basically crowing about the heroic act of dumping a shit load of catch-up money on US big tech because Mitch McConnell said so. (An Aside – Big tech has these billons to invest, except it is locked up in CEO compensation.)
But whatever. Maybe we need to catch up to China on some of this stuff, but this bill doesn’t merely do that – IT SHOWS THE WORLD that COONSIAN BIPARTISANISM (and by extension American democracy) IS NOT DEAD! Just get a load of this:
And, of course, simultaneously…the punch line:
McConnell: ‘The era of bipartisanship is over’
06/08/2021 05:02 PM EDT