As the four lead negotiators enter their seventh meeting Tuesday afternoon on COVID-19 relief measures, almost no progress has been made on the negotiation’s central tenet: the unemployment insurance benefit, a $600 a week safety net that officially expired for over 30 million Americans on Friday.
“Many of our state departments of labor — they just got microwaves last week, much less being able to reprogram the computer in 60 days to effectuate a complicated formula,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) told reporters last week.
What justifies such condescending arrogance? It surely isn’t his good looks or winning personality.
Oh, good heavens, another blast from the past that I had completely forgotten about…!
Senate Republicans have released a proposal for a plan called the HEEL’S Act to counter the Democrats’ HEROES Act…
Fixed it for y’all,
I’ve been thinking this for a long time, but Pelosi should INSIST that the “negotiation” be held in public. that way, the country could see what the Rs arae all about, and it’s not the interest of the American people.
Trump is losing and the Rs are losing. They can concede to what the Ds passed 3 MONTHS AGO and try to tak esome credit for it, or they can use the lack of action to try to blame Ds for the economic bloodbath to come. Naturally, they are choosing the latter which should be fine with the Ds since they can pre-emptively blame Rs for nothing happening in the “negotiations” and Rs will naturally take the blame for whatever shade of terrible the economy is in come election day.
Strategically, Ds should be fine with allowing R intransigence to sink the economy. That’s what the Rs did to the Ds in 2009-10 to reap the electoral benefits. Ds only want to support the economy because they actually care about Americans, even if Trump and the Rs would claim an electoral benefit from an improving economy.
“A building is on fire, and they are deciding how much water they want to have in the bucket,” [Pelosi] said Monday.
Actually, it’s more of a case of “the airplane is nose diving hard and they’re arguing about who gets to sit in First Class.”
They should have their skulls fractured. Every single fucking one of them.
And I am NOT advocating violence against them. I am only fervently hoping they all trip on banana peels and fall down multiple flights of marble stairs.
Who are the republicans that flatly refuse the $600 a week benefit?
Let’s have some names!
Look at what the various Republican positions are taking as a starting point. They simply don’t get it. I’m tired of hearing about their ideas and why we need to work with “moderate Republicans”. There are no longer such things as moderate Republicans. Their silence is/was complicity.
They could have spoken out regarding basic health care, but they didn’t. They could have spoken out regarding education for all, but they didn’t. They could have spoken out against the uneven application of “law enforcement” of US citizens, but they didn’t. They could have spoken out against real Russian interference in our elections, but they didn’t. They could have spoken out against bounties against US soldiers, but they didn’t. They could have spoken out against the attack against science (including global warming and the environment), but they didn’t. They could have spoken out against our lack of preparedness for the covid-19 pandemic, but they didn’t. Where are their voices now when current decisions are being made not on best practice but on what we can do because we are still unprepared with PPE and testing.
They could have spoken out against the lies and justification of lies presented to the public as facts, but they didn’t. They could have spoken out against the abuse of powers shown by the Republican Senate regarding actions (hiring of unqualified judges who were selected but for their extreme right views, the preventing of a hearing and vote up or down for a Supreme Court nominee), but they didn’t. They could have spoken out against nonsensical economic programs/models, but they didn’t. They could have spoken against the changes in the tax structure that eliminates funds to accomplish and support USW infrastructure but instead only give the top 1% more money. They could have spoken out against the sectionalism and fractionation of the peoples of our country, but it’s too convenient for them, so they didn’t.
Please stop equating their view with one that needs to be heard. The Republican Party doesn’t have a voice because they simply didn’t want one. The moderate Republicans are responsible for the 157,000 US covid-19 deaths (with estimates of 95,000 due to policies adopted by the President) because they could have changed the policy but decided not to. This economic discussion is a joke as they have no real interest.
They Republican Party is the cause of too many problems, and they cannot outrun that fact and label anymore than they can stop the sun from rising.
I wouldn’t trust them to turn on a light switch.
Seriously, these are people I wouldn’t trust to water my houseplants. And no way would I trust them to feed my cat 5/
7:06 AM · Aug 4, 2020·
Trump has told advisors he wants to see Covfefe Mountain when he visits Yosemite.
I thought I’d fractured my caucus once.
“Zero is the number for me,” Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) told HuffPost of his preferred amount of federal aid. “I’m not sure that we should be adding to a state’s unemployment,” added Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ).
I was relieved to see my heroic rep Andy Biggs crawled out of his air conditioned hole long enough to say something completely idiotic and nonsensical. The guy delivers, in a low key sort of way.
Public Negotiations?
There should certainly be public scrutiny.
don’t believe any more money should be spent.
on the rubes, we already rewarded our rich and corporations
Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has said that about 20 senators, suddenly balking at the deficit, don’t believe any more money should be spent.
Ah yes, right on cue. Because the deficit is never a problem when they’re raiding the treasury in order to stuff more boodle into the pockets of the 0.1% and corporations, but always a problem when it comes time to alleviate real suffering or make a difference to broader society.
Been there, done that, got the Laughable, I mean Laffer Curve.
Free-dumb Caucus…the fools, the fuckers, and the fascists who wants to be always the party of NO as long as the majority is a D!
Joe Biden can pronounce Yosemite while drinking water with one hand. Pass it on.
Didn’t he just get reprimanded for breach of ethics?
