Flimsey Grahamnesty has tried to abandon the rule of law and give our country to illegal aliens THREE times and this is the guy everybody wants thrown out of Congress?
Why couldn't they just have sent their votes by e-mail, or Skype or Zoom? Then, we could have had a recorded vote.
It wasn't secret ballot or anything.
Meanwhile, in the real world, a kid showed up at Kroger today to run the register as did older folks to bag your groceries.
Doctors, nurses and orderlies continue to report to hospitals to care for the sick.
The Amazon worker is still in the warehouse filling your order while you stay safely (?) at home.
The fast food worker, who is thankful they still have a job, was fixing your order so you could carry it back home.
Cry me a river if Congress had to be called back to DO THEIR JOB!
The more I hear about the process of creating, and especially passing this “coronavirus stimulus” the more I fear its a repeat of Iraq WMD, stimulus 2009 and Obamacare (you have to pass it to find out what’s in it).
Just another opportunity for the DC political class to bypass the Constitution and rob America blind.
I expect the next time we hear from Massie will be when some azzhat suggests cuts in social security. He’ll be on the wrong side of that too.
Th post brought to you by AOC, who is no longer the most hated person in Congress.
Of course I thought spending bills were supposed to originate in the House... but why let the Constitution get in the way.
I was rooting for Massie. Every constitutionalist on FR should be doing the same. If you live in his district, support him in the election, donate to him. Keep him in Congress. We need more like him!
That 2 trillion amounts to $5,700k in debt for every living person in the USA. How much will be administrative costs wasted on ever more government employees?
"He threatened to derail passage of the Wuhan coronavirus relief bill... "
Not true at all. Massie simply pointed out many faults in the bill, and wanted the House to do what the Constitution requires, and what every other person in a vital industry needs to do - show up at work.
Massie and everybody else, including President Trump, knew that there were enough congressmen in Washington to reach a quorum and pass the bill. But none of them, including President Trump, wanted to have a record of who voted for the stimulus.
Makes you wonder why. Probably because, as Massie noted there is ten times more money for banks, corporations, and other members of the political elite than for out of work Americans. At the same moment the Democrats are complaining about a shortage of masks for hospital workers they took 25 million dollars and allocated it to the Kennedy Center, instead of masks, or medicines, or ventilators.
Massie pointed out the dangerous behavior of swamp dwelling Democrats and Republicans. He and everybody else knew the bill would pass without delay. But nobody in the swamp wanted a recorded vote. If the bill was so great why didn't they want to proudly put their names on it?
Orwell’s “Two Minutes Hate” is alive and well.
If Republicans stood their ground and were good at bluffing, only the Democrats would have to fly back. Hmmmm, might have been a good thing. President Trump should ground Pelosi’s plane, and force her to fly back to Cali-fornia coach with a couple of connections. The queen bee needs a little discomfort over her shenanigans.
“Accomplishing nothing while finding a way to make everyone hate him proves Massie is a true libertarian. - ComfortablySmug”
Nine-eleven(9/11) united America for a short amount of time. This is merely dividing and showing the power of the governors. Mismanaged from the start. Much as the virus is indeed a virus, this whole thing is spiritual darkness in high places.
It was a challenge to the lack of accountability in VOTING FOR ALL OF THE PORK in the bill.
The billionaire’s this bill is designed to help I’m really angry at him.
He held things up a bit, ehile Pelosi held it up a week.
"One Trillion Dollars $1,000,000,000,000 - If you spent one dollar per second, in a day you would spend $86,400. Over the course of a year, your spending would come to more than $31.5 million. At that rate of spending, it would take you over 32,000 years to spend one trillion dollars. trillion = 1000 billion.)"
(...maybe this will help to understand)
Each state should have to by law, make an accounting of every cent provided them for this 2020 pandemic bailout. IF ANYONE suggests this TWO TRILLION is not enough.... they do not know what they are talking about!
Well, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is probably the most hated man in Washington D.C. right now. He threatened to derail passage of the Wuhan coronavirus relief bill that sailed through the Senate on a 96-0 vote. It’s a $2 trillion package that admittedly has some bad stuff in it, but American businesses and workers need relief as the nation fights this Wuhan coronavirus outbreak SCARE that’s infected over 85,000 people and killed at least 1,200. States have adopted severe measures to stop the spread, instituting bans of mass gatherings of more than 10 people, closing non-essential businesses for a least a month or more, and shuttering the schools. The markets have tanked. It was imperative that the government compile this rescue package to help workers, stabilize the markets, and ensure that the flow of credit remains unrestricted.
Too much pork in the bill. Massie’s challenge was correct.