Yep, 8 days ago Predictit had both GOP senators as 60% - 70% favorites to win, then Mitch pulled this crap and both saw their support fall off a cliff.
Mitch had a loser hand and was out flanked by the Democrats. They’ll revisit the issue once they have control anyway... sooo what did Mitch achieve? The average American does not care about the backroom politics of this issue.
Mitch is totally tone deaf. That quote would only be true if our economy weren’t being shut down by gubernatorial numbskulls.
This loss was due to election fraud. Nothing else.
until pubs develop mad dog election offenses they, we, will stay in this boat....
The Georgia election losses were caused by a couple of generations of renegade breeding and illegitimacy.
This could have all been different if Mitch supported Trump. Trump would be president, Mitch would have the majority in the Senate and the House would be doing better than before. As it is he screwed it all up... Will they recover? Not if the Democrats cheat and get their way in perpetuity.
OH Please!
$2000 to a rich/affluent person is nickels on the dollar!
Right now I am at the end of the rope and the end is fraying. I’ve worked hard, very hard all my life. Never once to unemployment until last year under PUA. why? They shut down the economy and literally killed my business! Down some 85%! Just not sustainable at this point.
The state awarded me XX amount of dollars unemployment and on Dec. 18th sent me a redetermination letter that claims they misfigured by nearly 55%. So now I am stuck with owing thousands of dollars that I cannot repay.
I have worked in some capacity throughout last year until I fell down some stairs due to fogged glasses and mask. Then it was ankle surgery and 16 weeks in non-weightbearing.
This week my only car engine blew at 206,000+. I tried to get financing for a new car, but the banks won’t take my 2019 taxes and only work off the last 3 months of bank statements! Why such tight lending rules? Covid and the crumbling economy! Well ...hello...broken ankle and not working.
I need a car because my business depends on me getting from location to location. Without it...no income.
Plus property taxes are now due.
I am trying to pull up my bootstraps at this point, but they broke a few months ago too. I’ve started going to food pantries...which now without a car...I cannot get to them and you have to ‘drive-thru.’
I have resumes sent out for a job, but at my age and health I might as well put a gun to my head, rather than catch Covid. But I have no choice. I literally have to risk my life to have an income and keep from being homeless.
And I am sure a bunch of elite FReepers will jump on here and tell me I should have planned for a rainy day...well I did and it poured and it is still pouring with the flood waters rising. Would $2000 help right about now? Hell yeah! Frankly for those in my boat(and there’s a lot of us)the $600 was a major slap in the face.
Would getting rid of this pandemic help...oh a hell lot yeah, because the recovery for my business would be astounding. The growth rate for my niche of work is predicted by BLS to grow some 22% by 2029! It is the fastest growing niche of the economy. But it cannot do that with everything constantly be locked down nationally and internationally.
We’re now pushing a year into this pandemic. Those in the middle class and working class have expended all their savings already. Many are going to be rocked by the amount of taxes they owe on the government unemployment paid out. And there’s no blood left in the turnip.
I am not asking for a handout...I just want to work, have an income until this pandemic stuff is over. Then I can re-open my business and get back to doing what I am passionate about. 2019 rocked! I was getting ready to hire!
To FReepers who I am sure will shame me. F-off! Small businesses all over the country are holding on by a shoestring right now, some already shutdown. On one hand you acknowledge the bloodbath; on the other your shouting at them for be bad business managers. Hello!!! My business niche has weathered several recessions quite well.
Covid shutdowns, fear, fear mongering is killing it. Lack of therapeutics in the marketplace. Saving treatments for only the most sick? Gee if they started them earlier maybe the hospitals wouldn’t be overrun? Idiots all of them!
That $2000 check for everyone was Trumps idea. He screwed the pooch with that one. He’s his own worst enemy.
Joe Biden told the crowd Monday that if the Dems took congress those $2000 checks were in the mail.
You really can buy an election. (With your own money at that).
It wasn’t lost it was stolen, again.😝
$2000 request by Trump to me was why are Republicans ok with giving huge amounts of money to overseas countries when we have Americans hurting.
The Republican Senate should have block that spending bill. If they did not want to block it they should have made sure America is taken care of first by giving us some of our Tax dollars back.
The thing is. Mitch isn't a stupid man. So the question is why did he do it? There is line of thinking I've seen mentioned on some of the political blogs that he actually WANTED to lose the Senate for tactical reason. The theory goes that Mitch knew that Republicans would get the blame for everything if they held the Senate. Now democrats have no excuses, every problem in the country now falls into their lap. The thing is, even though democrats control the Senate with the VP vote, the left will likely be very dissapointed once the hangover wears off because certain moderate democrat senators like Joe Manchin have already hinted they aren't going to touch doing away with the filibuster, packing the courts or any of the other liberal dream list items. So in the end a 50-50 senate won't look all that different from a 51-49 Republican majority....except now democrats will get all the blame when they can't accomplish anything.
A profoundly stupid move. I doubt this was the only reason the gop candidates lost, but it surely had to contribute. Imagine all the hard pressed people waiting for a dose of relief being told they are “rich people.”