Republicans are now openly boasting of their plot to win the House through extreme gerrymanders. This alone should dissuade Biden and Dems from negotiating down the stimulus to secure bipartisanship. Dems may have only 2 years. Make them count. My latest: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/01/gop-gerrymandering-biden-agenda-stimulus/

Media is getting snowed by the GOP proposal. It's a double-whammy of bad faith. It's meant to create the impression that Rs are willing to do *something* amid two major crises while also creating a bogus way to claim Biden is reneging on "unity" promise:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/01/gop-gerrymandering-biden-agenda-stimulus/

Dems keep saying they learned the lessons of 2009-2010.

Okay, but those lessons are also that:

1) scaling down ambition to chase bipartisanship doesn't stave off midterm losses, and

2) losing the House means a much slower recovery.

So go big now:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/01/gop-gerrymandering-biden-agenda-stimulus/

One more point about this: The fact that it's even an open question whether Dems will use reconciliation even as Republicans race forward with extreme gerrymanders itself demonstrates the deep asymmetries here: https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1356235823126077443