This chart would be helpful if it provided the reader with any basis for ascertaining whether these LARGE NOMINAL NUMBERS are related to the scale of the problems at hand. Without that the reader cannot see that the GOP "plan" is fundamentally unserious.

https://twitter.com/mcopelov/status/1355955843456503813?s=20 https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1356384856494776324
How large is the output gap?

How large are expected state/local govt budget gaps?

How large is the unemployment problem?

If you don't provide these data, the numbers here are meaningless. It becomes just a "both sides" game & the implied "solution" is to split the difference.
Again, this approach to covering the economic relief "debate" utterly fails the @froomkin test.

"Who is proposing intelligent solutions? Who is blocking them? And why?"

Bar graphs w/ nominal numbers don't even ask, let alone answer, these questions.

https://twitter.com/mcopelov/status/1355955843456503813?s=20
We've spent two days now talking of "bipartisanship" & "shared concerns" about the pandemic, as if these proposals are remotely related. One is actually related to the problem at hand. The other shows precisely a lack of "shared concerns." That may be impolite. It's also true.
We've spent two days now talking of "bipartisanship" & "shared concerns" about the pandemic, as if these proposals are remotely related. One is actually related to the problem at hand. The other shows precisely a lack of "shared concerns." That may be impolite. It's also true.
We've spent two days now talking of "bipartisanship" & "shared concerns" about the pandemic, as if these proposals are remotely related. One is actually related to the problem at hand. The other shows precisely a lack of "shared concerns." That may be impolite. It's also true.
We've spent two days now talking of "bipartisanship" & "shared concerns" about the pandemic, as if these proposals are remotely related. One is actually related to the problem at hand. The other shows precisely a lack of "shared concerns." That may be impolite. It's also true.
The stark reality is that the GOP's collapse into being a far right is not only about authoritarianism, but also about policy. The choice here is b/w a center-left set of policies & a far right one. "Bipartisan" utterly fails to convey that to readers. https://twitter.com/mcopelov/status/1335267177407123458?s=20
The scale of the problem is almost certainly larger, perhaps by factor of 2-2.5, than the Biden package. $600B, w/ no state/local aid, is a recipe for another Lost Decade. No serious mainstream party actually interested in governance would propose it. https://twitter.com/mcopelov/status/1355250225384992771?s=20
The media script needs rewriting. Just b/c the old playbook says "bipartisan thing w/ a less scary sounding number that 60 Senators can agree on" <must> be the reasonable/moderate/centrist solution does not make it so. In 2021, it absolutely doesn't make it so. <That's> the news.
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