Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, said Thursday that Democrats are in a state of “total disarray” as they contend with each other over the framework for a $1.75 trillion social welfare spending package.
“Here’s what I’ve observed. The Democrats are pretty much in total disarray,” Kennedy told Fox News. “President Biden is sort of like Kevin Bacon at the end of ‘Animal House,’ when people were stampeding him and he’s saying, ‘Calm down, be calm. Everything’s under control.'”
“They say they have a ‘framework.’ To me, a framework is when your car has two wheels down, its axle dragging, you’re in the ditch, you don’t have any help and you tell your spouse, ‘Honey, I’ve got a framework to get us out of this ditch,'” he continued.
Kennedy said the Democrats‘ tax policy was based on the Marxist principle of “class warfare.”
“I think people who are successful financially should be applauded, not criticized in America. But I love this term framework. And I’ve seen a little of it. I know this: They’re going to try to crush small business, and they’re making tax policy on the basis of class warfare,” he explained.
President Joe Biden said at the White House on Thursday that while “no one got everything they wanted” in the spending framework, the plan was still worthy of the party’s support and mending the division between centrist and left-wing Democrats.
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“We spent hours and hours over months and months working on this. No one got everything they wanted, including me, but that’s what compromise is. That’s consensus, and that’s what I ran on,” Biden stated. “I’ve long said compromise and consensus are the only way to get big things done in a democracy, important things done for our country. I know it’s hard. I know how deeply people feel about the things they fight for, but this framework includes historic investments in our nation and in our people.”
