Biden apparently is giving serious consideration to breaking the infrastructure bill into two parts: one with GOP support; and one without. Is that a good idea?
From a purely partisan perspective, definitely not. It gives the GOP a share of the credit for a part of the bill that is almost universally popular. Better to make them choose between accepting the bill as a whole or taking the hit for objecting to the popular bits.
But partisanship isn’t everything. Biden wants to use carrots as well as sticks to make the GOP a responsible center-right party again. It might not work, but what else can he do, other than trounce them in elections?
This is a close one, but personally, I would do the deal with the Republicans, hope that the carrot will work, and fight the remaining battles over the issues that really divide the parties. The national interest in maintaining a viable liberal democratic system has to prevail over narrow partisan advantage in this instance.