[Notorious_BLT]

If you think that separating the two wasn't an intentional move to allow for one to pass but not the other, I've got a bridge to sell you. Congress combines unrelated items all the time, if they had to vote to prevent the strike, the compliance with some of their demands should have been rolled into the same vote if they cared about it being passed.

[fnimick]

Okay, say you're Joe Biden, or some prominent Democrat in office.

Republicans come to you and say: either we pass this bill without safety provisions, or we will gleefully destroy the entire economy and the public will blame you for it.

What do you do?

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

You start by having the balls to say no. Then you hold a till-they-drop press conference explaining exactly why you're saying no and who is actually to blame for what is about to happen.

If the American people still decide to blame you and elect one of the saboteurs instead, well, they get what they deserve.

...I have learned that I have an above average capacity for spite, though.

[Eisenstein]

Not sign it.

[kneebonian]

Well first off if I was Biden I'd probably mutter something about how playing with trains in the pool with Corn Pop and the ice cream.

But let's not pretend these are two different teams, all of congress is in the same business of screwing the little guy.