Held hostage by Far-Left, Joe Biden kills bipartisan infrastructure plan

Just yesterday afternoon, Joe Biden killed a bipartisan infrastructure agreement. Sen. Mitch McConnell characterized it this way:

Earlier today, a bipartisan group of infrastructure negotiators took the results of their efforts to President Biden. It was an encouraging sign of progress after leading Democrats had gone out of their way to slow the process.

Remember: At first sign of an agreement last night and then again this morning, both the Democratic Leader and the Speaker of the House made it clear they would hold the bipartisan agreement hostage, demanding trillions of dollars in wasteful spending and job-killing tax increases in return for even considering it.

The two top Democrats literally pulled the rug out from under their bipartisan negotiators with these unserious demands before they’d even made it to the White House. So President Biden’s show of support earlier today appeared to be a major breakthrough for earning Democrats’ support.

But that optimism was short-lived. Less than two hours after publicly commending our colleagues and endorsing the bipartisan agreement, the President took the extraordinary step of threatening to veto it.

It was a tale of two press conferences -- endorse the agreement in one breath and threaten to veto it in the next."

In his speech, Sen. Mitch McConnell characterized the Democrats' leaders' demands as unserious. Here's his brief speech on the Senate floor:

 

This is John Kerry 2004 revisited. That's where Kerry said that he'd actually voted for the $87,000,000,000 before he voted against it. After yesterday's antics, it isn't likely that Congress will pass a badly-needed infrastructure bill. The Democrats will only have themselves to blame for that.