… I’m not here to defend the putative Democratic dissenters, with whom I personally disagree. But senators and House members differing with their party is neither unusual nor anomalous. Rather it is the norm. …
Yet today, not one single Republican seems willing to support President Biden’s economic recovery effort. Not one Republican supported the American Rescue Plan and not one seems likely to support the budget bill.
The anomalous fact that cries out for explanation — the man biting the dog — is not the possible defection of a Democrat or two, but the lockstep unanimity of the Republicans. CONTINUED
Mark Mellman (Mellman Group), The Hill
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