Posted on 05/14/2020 6:31:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republican Senate caucus took House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s $3 trillion extravaganza of waste and delusion and declared the package “dead on arrival.”
In truth, it was dead before it was born. Donald Trump doesn’t want another massive bailout bill and Mitch McConnell isn’t keen on the idea either. So, with an eye on November — and as a sop to their rabid, radical constituencies — House Democrats loaded up a “stimulus” bill with every left-wing fantasy, desire, wet dream, and “transformation” of the U.S. they could muster and threw it against a wall to see what would stick.
It didn’t work.
McConnell, speaking to reporters after a closed-door caucus meeting, said Republicans would “insist on narrowly targeted legislation.”
“What you’ve seen in the House [from] Nancy is not something designed to deal with reality, but designed to deal with aspirations. This is not a time for aspirational legislation, this is a time for practical response to the coronavirus pandemic,” McConnell said, referring to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
For Democrats, this is no time for “narrowly targeted legislation” or budget and debt concerns, or even reality itself. Reality left the building a long time ago for Democrats and with this stim bill, they’ve given free rein to their most exhilarating fantasies and darkest nightmares.
But the bill effectively hit a buzzsaw among Senate Republicans, whose support would be needed to even get the bill scheduled for a vote on the floor, much less to pass the measure.
Sen. John Thune (S.D.), the No. 2 Republican in the upper chamber, argued that the House bill was not designed to pass, calling it a “messaging exercise.”
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Is Romney trying to drum up votes to support it?
Sanity.
She will get half of what she is asking for.
Elections have consequences.
Now use that monstrosity to win back the house.
Which is what Pelosi wants. She doesn’t want the bill to pass, she wants it to fail so it can be a campaign issue.
Good for him, saving Trump from having to veto the damn dem give away bill.
and that is why the bill is 3/4s full of stuff she doesn’t care about.
Republicans will “negotiate” and beat their chests over how they saved $100 billion from the bill, which is what Pelosi wanted anyway.
Its a campaign issue alright. ..for Trump and the GOP.
Everything in Pelosi’s bill is trash.
Drum up votes from who?
The Democrats?
No one in the Republican Party likes him.
Not a chance.
>>>Is Romney trying to drum up votes to support it?<<<
Given the damning information coming forward about the Coup Attempt and the Russian Hoax, I wonder if the esteemed Senator from Utah is rethinking his Vote to Impeach POTUS Trump?
He’s been very quiet lately.
Not gonna happen. This joke will not pass.
Well when schools open in the fall with a fraction of the number of teachers needed because that's all the school districts can afford, when states and counties and cities are laying off police and fire and restaurant food inspectors and road maintenance workers, when potholes are not filled in and DMV offices don't open, and yes when unemployment checks don't arrive and food stamps aren't approved, then the Democrats will be able to say "We tried to help but the Senate refused". All in an election year. How well do you think that will play? And it'll be all 50 states because they'll all have budget shortfalls.
Does this stimulus package include Haagen Dazs rum raisin ice cream?
No bailouts for blue states and sanctuary cities
Libs like you will figure out something
Their plan it to make it painful enough that the GOP will give in.
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