House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Wednesday after the senator’s office mocked so-called “blue state bailouts” as Congress hammers out another relief package during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Dump the Turtle…
It is ridiculous the superhuman candidates we have to field to unseat these feckless, old, white Republicans. They can run a corpse as long as the escaping gas sounds like a dog whistle.
it seems to me that the most recent “small business bailout” was based on a promise that states and localities would be getting help in a subsequent bill. Pelosi needs to hit the pause button right now, because its pretty obvious that McConnell will stop any bill to help the areas hardest hit by the pandemic — and send the message "if states and cities suffer economic crises, the damage to small businesses will be incalculable,and the billions being spent on the current “rescue” plan would have been wasted."
“There’s not going to be any desire on the Republican side to bail out state pensions by borrowing money from future generations”
The PPA is a big business giveaway in practice. It is a Republican ask masked as a Democratic one. McConnell has shown his cards and is kicking state and USPS funding down the road with no intention of every passing it.
Pelosi needs to add state and local funding at levels even with PPA money. She shouldn’t settle for this paltry $25 billion for testing. $250 billion for business should be matched with $250 billion for government.
If McConnell doesn’t like it Pelosi needs to walk. It’s the only way to negotiate. Republicans will take the blame in November if this doesn’t pass, and America will be better in the long run if we suffer a little now and get rid of the Republicans, rather than if we reduce suffering by a token amount and then let Republicans destroy America and the planet.
The fact that he even brought up public employee pensions shows what his true intentions are.
I’m sure ol’ #MM will be speaking from the other side of his mouth come hurricane season. “Red state bailouts for everybody!”
Thanks Moscow Mitch you just bought your opponent a donation.
OT, but very sad news…
“Yeah, I would certainly be in favor of allowing states to use the bankruptcy route,” he said. “It saves some cities. And there’s no good reason for it not to be available.”
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Nancy, Nancy, Nancy. Moscow Mitch is the leader of a death cult. Whether physical or financial, he doesn’t care as long as there is death.
#MM must have his head in the sand concerning his own state. Kentucky has a deep problem with pensions. I wonder what he would say if his own pension was at stake?
Saw that, very sad
Mitch’s long streak of getting his way by being ever more contemptuous of law and the minimum of ethical norms appears to be running out. He married himself to Trump, and that worked out for him. But now he’s marrying himself to the virus and mass death and suffering. Given his history, I get that he thought he could get away with it. But apparently not. He’s becoming irrelevant, and I live in hope of seeing Pelosi dunk on him regularly, until he loses his seat in November.
“Blue State Bailouts”.
Seriously?
Seriously?!
If blue states withheld federal taxes for just one day, the moocher red-states would starve to death!
The greatest trick the Devil GOP ever played was to flip the givers-and-takers narrative on its head.
Between the two of them, NY and NJ have been paying something like $60 billion a year more in federal taxes than they’ve been getting back in federal funding so they’ve been rescuing Kentucky from its bad decisions for years.
And Cuomo is currently trashing McConnell in real time right now. Some tidbits of what he has to say about what McConnell had to say: Just dumb and vicious. I mean how ugly a thought. How irresponsible and how reckless. Not the time for divisive politics. Also: self-proclaimed grim reaper Mitch McConnell.
And thank you Cuomo for making clear now how much more money NYS puts in as opposed to what Kentucky takes out: Senator McConnell who’s getting bailed out here? It’s your state that’s getting bailed out on the money we put in.
Sadly, this is true. The country will have to suffer unnecessarily to rid itself from the pox on the body politic.