It's bizarre how one party is gleefully absent from any policy discussion that will affect the lives of millions of Americans, speechboy71 writes for MSNBCDaily.
As Congress gets closer to an agreement on a multitrillion-dollar budget package, there is one actor notably missing from the negotiations: the Republican Party.
Republican campaigns are increasingly defined by a laser-like focus on cultural issues, such as"critical race theory" or nonexistent voter fraud, with barely a mention of serious substantive policies. None of this is even considered unusual or surprising anymore. It’s just the way things are in politics today.
Ironically, it wasn’t that long ago that Republicans boasted about being the party of ideas. Conservative think tanks proudly rolled out policy proposals and encouraged Republican officials to embrace them. Today, other than venerating former President Donald Trump or accusing Democrats of being socialists or communists, it’s hard to find a single policy issue that defines the modern Republican Party.
Now with Democrats in charge, little has changed. Though a handful of Republicans embraced a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan, there’s been no serious GOP input into the Democrats' budget plan. No one in Washington expects a single Republican member to cross the aisle to work with Democrats or even allow a bill to pass on a party-line vote.
Indeed, Republicans were praised in recent weeks for not filibustering a bill that prevented a default on the U.S. debt. Of course, when the bill did come to the floor,
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