(#4547) As republicans slowly walk away from their bipartisan infrastructure bill

      There wasn't any doubt in my mind that republicans would walk away from their bipartisan infrastructure bill with democrats. It is an age old tactic of theirs to pretend to care about something then string it along until the time for creating a law for it then they find reasons to not support it thus wasting everyone's time by running out the clock on the proposed legislation. So they get to say they tried but that there were too many poison pills in the final legislation. At least that is what they tell their base voters who believe them like the wolf in grandma's clothing. Plus they get to blame democrats for not doing anything they promised when they were elected.
     I get why Joe Biden tried to compromise with republicans in order to bring back bipartisanship but that ship had left the harbor nearly 3 decades ago. But kudos for trying and reminding the American electorate that republicans are true to their disdain of the working middle poor class. However, at least Joe Biden kept a second track for passing infrastructure legislation through reconciliation, democrats only, moving forward. Which is now going to be the only way any infrastructure legislation will become law. We have seen it already with immigration and police reform. Two policy positions well debated for decades being dragged out by an intransient republican party to no bipartisan deal.
     I don't know how much more evidence the last holdouts to filibuster reform need to know that no legislation will pass through bipartisanship with republicans because that is not their strategy. They want us democrats to fail so that they can have a chance to regain power, which is their only agenda, not the struggles of our nation. Now I could be wrong about the smaller bipartisan infrastructure bill being abandoned but there are already five of the needed republicans who worked on the bill backing away from it. No doubt to me that they will all back away as a tactic to stop or derail the 3.5 trillion reconciliation bill that is being run simultaneously with the bipartisan bill. Let them show their colors and we democrats will pass both bills folded together through reconciliation without republicans at all.