Oddbean new post about login | logout @b05df304 The Dem-majority Senate managed to pass a major bipartisan bill. So, yes, in comparison at least, the failure of the GOP-majority House to find a workable compromise falls on its leadership.
@b2d9fca2 This makes no sense on a few accounts 1) The bill was passed, yesterday, so not a failure at all other than a single vote that implied a need to revise the bill 2) The **only** reason the senate passed the bill is because the GOP was willing to be bipartisan and vote along side the democrats and support it and letting it pass... Who has majority doesnt matter since the bill **only** passed because almost all republicans supported it. So the success in the senate was due to GOPs willingness to compromise and vote along side democrats rather than divide by party lines. 3) the bill int eh house, however, was **only** supported by the GOP, the 214 dissenters who caused the bill to fail was overwhelmingly the DNC opposing it ( a stark difference to the senate where the GOP supported the DNC)... of the 214 votes it was virtually entierly DNC not republicans.... that makes it the fault of the DNC not republicans... To blaim the vote failing ont he GOP who only had 5 oppose instead of the DNC who had 209 is dishonest at best to claim that is the GOP to blame and not the democrats... especially whent he GOP showed support for the bill in BOTH houses .
@b05df304 As I understand it, that's not correct. The bill in the senate only had about half the support of the GOP, not the full support, and that was because the majority worked with the minority to find a compromise, not because the GOP members randomly chose to be magnanimous. In the House, however, we have jackass McCarthy running things, and he doesn't even seem to know what the word "compromise" means. So of course Dems aren't going to vote for a bill when they've had no input into its creation. That's not their fault; that's them doing their jobs.