Posted on 03/22/2020 5:16:58 PM PDT by aimhigh
Congress was unable to reach an agreement Sunday on a $1 trillion-plus stimulus package that gives cash to families and keeps small businesses afloat during the coronavirus pandemic, deepening fears of economic chaos as Rand Paul of Kentucky became the first U.S. senator to confirm he’s contracted the disease.
Democrats balked at the Senate GOP’s push to set aside $425 billion for loans to select companies and industries, dubbing it a “slush fund” for the Treasury to direct as it sees fit. They said the bill is tilted toward corporations instead of working people.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell dared Democrats to reject the Senate measure in a procedural vote Sunday as tales of joblessness and woe poured in from every part of the nation.
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Team Trump is using the Rham Emanuel playbook and the Dems are realizing this isn’t George W. Bush in the WH.
But they’ll blame it on the Republicans, and the Republicans won’t say boo, because they seem to be afraid of the demonicRats.
Jack@$$, Schumer.
Funny we never hear about cutting spending during times like these. NEVER.
Looks like it is high time for McConnell to follow the Constitution, which only requires fifty-one votes, instead of Senate rules with the hideous sixty-vote filibuster requirement.
These delays will only work for a short time before sheltered in place VOTERS get danged pissed.
Last Gasp.
Trump is going to drive a rusty railroad spike up their Donkey.
Democrats will go out of their way to drive through a mud puddle to splash onto the Republicans rather than to work for the people of this nation.
There’s not enough lamb’s blood for Nanzi’s lintel
My understanding is that 4 gopE senators are ether in quarantine or self isolating. I don’t think the turtle has the votes.
The Democrats — who ignored this oncoming disease
they planned to attack an ELECTED PRESIDENT —
are now exposed to KNOWINGLY/EVILLY
work against all Americans making them worse
than Russia and al Qaeda.
IS ANYONE REALLY SURPRISED?
I don’t think I can legally say what I am thinking.
“Democrats will go out of their way to drive through a mud puddle to splash onto the Republicans rather than to work for the people of this nation.”
Truer words were never spoken. I couldn’t have said it better.
I’ve been saying there isn’t anything about which we can stand up and say “We are all Americans. Despite our differences we all agree on this together.”
So the quarrelsome Dem “leaders” demand full socialism or no deal, nothing to allow Trump to help the country and certainly nothing to help the people who have no wages today. Even when GOP agreed to add a fortune onto the national debt.
In the 1970s when Robert Redford refused to allow screenings of All the President’s Men to fundraise for Dems he said: “No. Neither party has anything to be proud of.”
Please watch this. McConnell explains why the procedural vote failed.
Everything was going well, “Then all of a sudden the democratic leader & speaker of the house show up & we’re back to square one”
Schumer & Pelosi are a disgrace to America
https://twitter.com/mrjones_tm/status/1241867189101215746?s=21
In these times, naysayers will be prosecuted and persecuted.....that includes DjT on this one.....look out.
Ds won’t want a too-quick recovery. Rs won’t care either as long as the goodies flow, so DjT will be battling them all.
That’s another twenty million voters the D’s flushed down the toilet
Not a word about it in the president’s press conference except to act like it’s Trump’s fault.
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