Pelosi, Schumer Call Out GOP And White House For ‘Disarray’ And ‘Delay’ On COVID Relief | Talking Points Memo

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) ripped Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and the White House for their “months-long disarray and delay” on delivering a proposal for a coronavirus relief package.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1322258
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Let them eat cake with $100 per week additional unemployment benefit instead of $600…

Let them find something else…amidst this pandemic with approx. 50M+ unemployed…

But let’s appropriate MORE pandemic aid to the Defense Budget (where Trump Cronies get paid and maybe a part of it could be misappropriated for Trump’s Vanity Wall)!

Watch Rep. Katie Porter grill a pandemic vulture…

…I’m unable to understand why you need this additional money when your profits are up, and you’ve breached your contracts with regard to producing defective parts. Why should the taxpayer foot the bill to help Lockheed Martin at this time?

Meanwhile…its really really hard to trust a Republican, even if he voted to impeach the Orange Occupant because he wants to fast track CUT to SS/Medicare in a pandemic!

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The GOP tactic is to hold off until the situation becomes critical. Then advance their bill on a “take it or else the country gets it” basis.

Oh, and remember that the government shuts down on October 1 unless there is a deal there as well.

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Dithering, disarray, and delay…oh my! Not a good look in times like these. Sh*t’s about to get real for a lot of voters.

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Squeezing everyone financially is designed to further unrest. Yoho was mad because AOC was precisely right about poverty and pandemic causing the uptick in crime and he was mad because it’s the first step in the analysis that leads to realizing that they are using precisely those means to achieve their ends.

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There’s nothing wrong with this nation that some tear gas won’t fix.

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When in doubt, starve the peasants!

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I see this as exactly the right response to McConnell’s unconscionable delays in passing sorely-needed legislation. Pelosi and Schumer are working within the limitations of the system; McConnell and his thugs are working to destroy it. Vote 'em all out in November!

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Let them eat Little Debbie!

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Continuing the discussion from Pelosi, Schumer Call Out GOP And White House For ‘Disarray’ And ‘Delay’ On COVID Relief | Talking Points Memo:

So the White House wants the weekend to go through the bill line by line. That probably explains why Trump is planning to spend the weekend, beginning later today, in Bedminster, NJ, as reported this morning by the White House pool reporter.

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Hey Nancy and Chuckster, can you two please turn the volume all the way up, What is it going to take? This is not politics as usual. Fuck decorum and civility! These monsters are killing fellow Americans while enabling Trump and are now about to evict and foreclose on millions of Americans. As Bob Dole famously said, “where’s the outrage!”

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Trumpublicans have forced the poor and American workers to walk the plank. Because it is too risky and there are not jobs to take, they can’t jump. So now Trump and McConnell are sawing off the plank.

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Then advance their bill on a “take it or else the country gets it” basis.

It’s a little too late for that. What are they going to threaten? Give everyone Covid-19? Destroy the economy?

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I could tell them what we need to do and we aren’t going to do it. We need to shut the country down and start over.

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I fear that the Dems are being set up for what in politics is called “the jam.”

McConnell and the Repubs will work through what they want with the White House. And then when the deadline approaches, after which it will be too late to have continuous enhanced unemployment, they will demand that the Dems sign on to the GOP bill…or the Dems will get blamed for delaying the bill.

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If this Administration is doing anything “line by line”, I’ll guarantee it doesn’t involve reading a bill. Laziest Administration ever doesn’t read. This doesn’t even pass the smell test.

I like to see those fighting Dems. On this vitally important issue, as well as going after Ron Johnson, Senator from Russia, on his corrupt attempts to launder Russian propaganda through his committee. Dems are proactively getting the FBI to take a stand here to undermine the idiot from Wisconsin via Russia.

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Civil unrest is the goal, and martial law will be the response.

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The only way the republicans remain in power at this point is cheating. And martial law is the most direct way to cheat.

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Including many in his 38% who will vote for him anyway.

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