What Does The Republican Party Stand For?

During his press conference yesterday, President Joe Biden said the following when asked why his agenda had not been as successful as he would have liked during his first year:

What are the Republicans for? What are they for? Name me one thing they’re for. And so, the problem here is that I think what’s happened is what I have to do in the — in the change in tactic if you will. I have to make clear to the American people what we are for. We’ve passed a lot. We passed a lot of things that people don’t even understand what’s all that’s in it, understandably.

Over the past year, the Republican Party has done nothing but stand in the way of Biden’s agenda. The same day Biden gave this address, fifty two Senators — every Republican Senator along with Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema—voted against carving out an exception to the filibuster so the Senate could end debate on a voting rights bill and actually begin voting on it.

Of course, Democrats would not need to carve out an exception to the filibuster if the sixteen Republican Senators who voted in favor of the Voting Rights Act in 2006 and are still in office would vote to do the same once again. However, doing so would mean a victory for the Biden Administration, and Republicans will simply not allow that to happen. Even the moderate Republicans like Adam Kinzinger have…