[2006alum]

When Reagan got his Tax Bill  through in ‘86, it had strong bipartisan support. It was sponsored in the House by Dan Rostonkowski.  Clinton worked with Gingrich on the welfare reform bills.  Move forward to Obama and Trump. Their two biggest legislative achievements are the ACA and the Tax Reform bill. Both passed on pure party line votes.  So when Trump took office, the GOP pushed to gut the ACA.  Biden and the Dems will now go to work to gut Tax Reform.  

That’s what happens when it’s pure party line voting.

I think you've put the cart before the horse:

[The Senate GOP] went about this by escalating an arms race that had been building in the Senate for the better part of a decade: the increasingly aggressive use of rules and procedures by successive minorities to frustrate the will of the majority. The very first bill to be considered on the Senate floor in the 111th Congress, in early January of 2009, before Obama was even inaugurated, was the Public Land Management Act, a sweeping conservation measure with broad bipartisan support that would protect 2 million acres of parks and wilderness in nine states. The Republicans filibustered, forcing a series of votes and requiring a weekend session to finish. The bill eventually passed, 77–20.

The same tactics were deployed against most other initiatives, and expanded into new realms. Traditionally, only votes on the most controversial judicial nominees had been delayed or filibustered, although the number crept upward during Bill Clinton’s and George W. Bush’s presidencies. Under McConnell, Republicans have also filibustered noncontroversial nominees, many later confirmed unanimously. They have filibustered even nominees put forward by Republican senators, and required separate votes for district-court judges, who used to be confirmed in groups as a matter of routine. The resulting increase in vacancies has exacerbated a shortage of judges across the country, leading many districts to declare “judicial emergencies”—vacancy levels so high that they threaten the courts’ ability to function. McConnell bet (correctly) that he would pay no political price for this type of obstruction, because the White House and the media would be preoccupied with other things—things even harder to accomplish as the Senate calendar filled up. . . . 

“We worked very hard to keep our fingerprints off of these proposals,” McConnell says. “Because we thought—correctly, I think—that the only way the American people would know that a great debate was going on was if the measures were not bipartisan. When you hang the ‘bipartisan’ tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there’s a broad agreement that that’s the way forward.”

And then there was this choice quote from 2010:

N.J.: What’s the job?
McConnell: The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

I'm glad DJT is screaming about $2,000 checks. No idea if he cares or just wants to throw a tantrum, but either way, when AOC and Josh Hawley agree on something, my view is that it almost certainly has to be right.

[2006alum]

When Reagan got his Tax Bill  through in ‘86, it had strong bipartisan support. It was sponsored in the House by Dan Rostonkowski.  Clinton worked with Gingrich on the welfare reform bills.  Move forward to Obama and Trump. Their two biggest legislative achievements are the ACA and the Tax Reform bill. Both passed on pure party line votes.  So when Trump took office, the GOP pushed to gut the ACA.  Biden and the Dems will now go to work to gut Tax Reform.  

That’s what happens when it’s pure party line voting.

I think you've put the cart before the horse:

[The Senate GOP] went about this by escalating an arms race that had been building in the Senate for the better part of a decade: the increasingly aggressive use of rules and procedures by successive minorities to frustrate the will of the majority. The very first bill to be considered on the Senate floor in the 111th Congress, in early January of 2009, before Obama was even inaugurated, was the Public Land Management Act, a sweeping conservation measure with broad bipartisan support that would protect 2 million acres of parks and wilderness in nine states. The Republicans filibustered, forcing a series of votes and requiring a weekend session to finish. The bill eventually passed, 77–20.

The same tactics were deployed against most other initiatives, and expanded into new realms. Traditionally, only votes on the most controversial judicial nominees had been delayed or filibustered, although the number crept upward during Bill Clinton’s and George W. Bush’s presidencies. Under McConnell, Republicans have also filibustered noncontroversial nominees, many later confirmed unanimously. They have filibustered even nominees put forward by Republican senators, and required separate votes for district-court judges, who used to be confirmed in groups as a matter of routine. The resulting increase in vacancies has exacerbated a shortage of judges across the country, leading many districts to declare “judicial emergencies”—vacancy levels so high that they threaten the courts’ ability to function. McConnell bet (correctly) that he would pay no political price for this type of obstruction, because the White House and the media would be preoccupied with other things—things even harder to accomplish as the Senate calendar filled up. . . . 

“We worked very hard to keep our fingerprints off of these proposals,” McConnell says. “Because we thought—correctly, I think—that the only way the American people would know that a great debate was going on was if the measures were not bipartisan. When you hang the ‘bipartisan’ tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there’s a broad agreement that that’s the way forward.”

And then there was this choice quote from 2010:

N.J.: What’s the job?
McConnell: The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

I'm glad DJT is screaming about $2,000 checks. No idea if he cares or just wants to throw a tantrum, but either way, when AOC and Josh Hawley agree on something, my view is that it almost certainly has to be right.