Seth Meyers, in fact, went after President Joe Biden quite strongly on Monday night – but not for the reasons Fox News would like.
Instead, the Late night The host criticized Biden for engaging in what he sees as a “futile and absurd exercise” by “giving in” to Republican demands for “bipartisanship” when it comes to relief from COVID. “Just the fact that he is willing to sit and listen to you is more than you deserve,” Meyers said directly to Republican senators who want to reduce the aid package.
Comparing Biden to the neighbor who keeps throwing back the frisbee that falls in his backyard, even after the kids throw dog poop at him, he asked, “Seriously Joe, why are you taking anything that Susan Collins says seriously? Just send the checks to people. No one cares if she is moderately disappointed in the process. “
And then, pointing to the way Republicans used the same budgetary reconciliation process to promote tax cuts for corporations, he said: “Nothing they say about compromise and bipartisanship should be taken seriously. They have been using the same scam for years. “
“Do you know how I know?” Meyers asked. “Because Democrats have fallen into this trap many times before, including a certain vice president in 2012.” With that, he spent the clip of Biden predicting that the Republican “fever” would break out after President Obama was re-elected. “Not only did the fever not subside, it got worse,” he added. “Probably thanks to that secret Jewish space laser that invented COVID and hacked the election together with Bill Gates and Hugo Chávez!”
“Republicans are not going to suddenly become reasonable,” he continued, urging Biden to follow the cease of his former Democratic opponent Bernie Sanders and “set aside” Republican “bad faith complaints about bipartisanship.”