As the four lead negotiators prepare for their eighth meeting on a COVID-19 relief package Thursday afternoon, House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are projecting confidence.
“If Congress doesn’t do anything to support state and local governments, that is actually going to be catastrophic,” she said.
Lesson learned:
GOP does not give an effing 
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The tea leaves are telling them they could lose big this coming Nov…
So they are burning the country with them.
They do this everytime they are in the majority!
Meanwhile…OT
Dr. Fauci and his family have received death threats and harassment!
The DEM campaign ads just write themselves.
Have at it, Lincoln Project and Meidas Touch.
Democrats have proposed over $1 trillion, about six times as much as was spent in the last relief package. That boodle would be split into $500 billion for states, $375 billion for municipalities and counties, $20 billion for territories and $20 billion for tribes.
Dumpf: Yeah, but where is the $20 billion for BRIBES?
When the country loses, republicans and their backers win.
Trump and the Repubs do not care if you cannot afford to eat,pay your rent , die from the virus or send your children into harms way.
May God not have mercy on these worthless sub humans.
Truer words . . .
Trump can’t EO his way out of this. For once in his life, he’s going to have to actually make a deal…and he is the world’s worst deal maker.
I hope we get funding for the Post Office and election security as well.
Republicans are in disarray in part because of a collision between a number of negative impulses–from government should be small or non-existent* to vulgar mammonism**–but at heart this what happens when a group of people realize they actually have little in common beyond a shared desire to stay in power and there is no reason to support anyone who might impede that individualistic project.
Trump is a divider supreme and his divisiveness does not stop with his putative enemies, it infects everyone including those who imagine themselves his allies (which no one is in fact) or sycophants.
*among other evils an effective government might oblige them to treat blacks and women as equals.
We are at the edge of an economic precipice that could make the Great Depression look like a relative inconvenience, and now, after financing two wars under Dubya on our credit card, and after repeatedly granting tax cuts to the obscenely wealthy, NOW the GOP is balking due to so-called fiscal conservatism? Give me a fucking break.
A wise government taxes during times of plenty to build up the treasury, much like a battery stores charge, so that when times get tough the government can release money, much like a battery discharges, to fuel the economy.
The time to spend is NOW. If we don’t do it, the economy will continue to collapse.
Has the GOP learned NOTHING from 1929? From 2008? NOTHING? Are they all this willfully ignorant and obtuse? Or has their goal always been to raid the treasury and leave the plebians penniless, homeless and hungry? Do they realize what they risk by doing this, especially in a nation with so many arms? Are they this incompetent? Do they know nothing about economic inequality and what happened to Louis XVI and Marie? (Yes, this is an extreme example.)
Jared Kushner: I am all for it then!!!
If there is no negotiated relief package tomorrow, who will get the blame? This is just Government Shutdown 2.0. The Republicans will take the fall.
Republicans don’t want to miss their chance to drown government in the pandemic bathtub. .
The understated issue here is that Republicans could be leading the country in a a very deep recession or depression.
Basically, they have never understood that the demand side of the economy has any meaning. And yes this time it could hurt their true constituents, the haves and have mores.
Let’s face it, none of these assholes has a paycheck at risk, and they could give a shit less about us. All they want to have is an impasse so they can blame the other party. We need to go to a parliamentary system where a government fall on a no confidence vote. Either that or its take to the barricades!
…an anecdote about the high-spirited Democratic leaders singing a song together before the press conference started.
Go, baby. Make them “conservative evangelicals” clap for humankind.
Answer: All of the above!
More likely:
Dumpf: Yeah but where is the $20 billion for ME ME MEEEEE ?
Hypotheticals, right?
eta; rhetorically speaking, that is…
Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. Not A Thing.
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