Riden' With Biden

 JOE BIDEN has not yet made a mistake, other than perhaps inserting a high strung German shepherd into a millieu of strangers. Otherwise, he's the greatest president, so far, in the history of the United States, the best since the worst, his predecessor. Nor has one single solitary republican congressperson contributed a single iota of productive bipartisanship, especially stimulus wise. We can much much the same, infrastructurally. The Republicans, who suddenly, mysteriously become quite concerned with fiscal responsibility and public (government) debt when the Democrats are in charge, will refuse to increase taxes on the wealthiest Americans . Biden will propose to pay for repairs to the nation's crumbling infrastructure, the Republicans will prefer to bestow the burden upon future generations, as usual. If there are any valid criticisms to be made about the breakdown of the infrastructure bill, it is that only a hundred billion dollars will be allocated to the repair of roads and bridges, while an equal amount will be used to upgrade broadband internet.Arguably, the roads and bridges are a much greater emergency priority. Point out teh obvious that the republicans are beholden to their wealthy campaign contributors, the response will be: so are the Democrats. That may well be. There is, however, a huge difference: Democrats almost uniformly vote for tax increases on the wealthiest Americans, Republicans almost always vote against such tax raises. If both parties are obligated to billionaires and millionaires, the Republicans do a much better job of fulfilling their obligations.Just as every congressional republican voted against the recent stimulus package, so every Republican is likely to vote against the infrastructure bill, a bill which under Trump they failed to even consider their own version of.Both pieces of legislation will probably come to be seen as seminal in bringing the American economy back to prosperity after its disastrous collapse brought about by the pandemic and the Trump administration's failure to take the decisive action needed to control the spread of Covid 19. However, in defense of Trump and the republicans, during the Trump administration they were preoccupied with lowering tax rates for billionaires and gathering together by the thousands at MAGA rallies, for the ostensible purpose of spreading all manner of disease, viral, mental, socio-economic and political.