It's Scary to Put Our Lives In the Hands of Democrats

Townhall.com ^ | March 24.020 | Larry Provost

[Kaslin]

There was a picture of only one president in my house growing up in the 1980s and it was not Ronald Reagan. The president on our family wall was John F. Kennedy. He would be turning over in his grave at what his party has done, increasingly so through the decades and culminating in these past two days.

When it seemed apparent that a relief bill, that the American people had been waiting for, was going to be passed it was Nancy Pelosi who killed it. She was assisted by her Senate ally Chuck Schumer. After previously signaling that everything was good to go the Democrats pulled the plug on the relief bill when they believed they could put their ideological agenda into a bill related to the Wuhan coronavirus.

Townhall Editor Katie Pavlich recently published the list of Democrat demands.

None of the items listed have anything to do with providing direct relief to the American people. Required early voting? Union bargaining? Cancellation of postal debt? Climate change? Really?! Are you kidding? Senate Minority Schumer says on the floor of the Senate that their thoughts are with us. Their thoughts are not with us nor are the Democrat leaders, as people, with us. If they were they wouldn’t be thinking about the other things we argue about during this time.

The Democrats will not pass bills incrementally, as the Republicans have done. Instead, they hold bills hostage in order to get everything they want beyond the immediate issue of the Wuhan coronavirus. They won’t even let the people get their checks or unemployment insurance extended. Instead, they hold us hostage too.

They will keep coming for our guns, our healthcare, our religion and now blatantly hold our livelihood in their very hands. They finally began admitting to the first three issues during recent election cycles and their actions show our livelihood, far beyond economic policy disagreements, is next. The other issues are just as important but the power grabs they did on those issues were slow, incremental and often almost imperceptible (save Obamacare). They planned it that way while shaming us for our history so that we would not look to history as a guide; history that would tell us the Democrats always infer “this is the last bill. This will not go any further than this form.” They lie. They will never stop. They are progressive. They always go for more power.

But the move of the Democrats on Sunday and Monday represents a new phase in their gutter philosophy. It is bold and does not even pretend to have a semblance of good faith.

Small businesses that provide jobs for people are dying and corporations that provide many more jobs are teetering. The president is working feverishly to keep us out of a Depression and keep people safe. If the people were not taxed so darn much for stupid projects maybe we would have had enough money saved to weather this kind of storm. While we are at it, why do these jokers in D.C. get to be okay no matter what happens but they can not only hold our lives in their hands but play ball with it?

Anyone who has any allegiance to Democrats now has a decision to make. For people in my mother’s generation who liked Kennedy but were conservative patriots, they have been long gone from the Democrats. They were written off a long time ago. There is no hiding what the Democratic Party has become. They even shy away from Bill Clinton’s Third Way calling that racist and radical.

The party of John F. Kennedy died with him in Dealey Plaza. Thank God we have a great president in office so the economy was at a good place when this pandemic struck. If it had not been for him we would be in what would undoubtedly be called a “Greater Depression” than the one we had in the 1930s. Imagine if we had Biden, Obama, or Sanders. The economy would have been in tatters before the virus and they would be shoving even more socialist garbage into relief bills.

People will long remember what the Democrats did, or rather didn’t do, this week. Those Democratic elitists may think we have short term memories but ordinary people will never forget those who keep food off our table. And we will never forget because they played with our very lives.

[Savage Beast]

Not only is it scary! It's SUICIDE!

[FormerFRLurker]

If Yertle wants to get a stimulus package passed he might want to try not loading it up with corporate bailouts but actually sending the money to small businesses and individuals who were thrown out of work. Just this once. It won’t kill him.

[lgjhn23]

Not only scary...it’s totally f’n INSANE.!!!

[Publius]

The president on our family wall was John F. Kennedy.

My mother's oldest sister, to her dying day, had three pictures on her wall. From left to right, Jack Kennedy, the Virgin Mary, and then Bobby Kennedy.

I told her the Virgin Mary wasn't safe between those two. She didn't find that amusing.

[Rurudyne]

Population replacement is part of their goals so, yeah, they haven’t got our interest at heart.

Or even in their lower bowels...

[Leep]

They want all non essential personnel eliminated (as in dead).
Anyone who doesn’t vote democrat that is.

[Fungi]

Does the demented Frisco Virago, aka Nazi Pelousy, take a commercial flight to DC from California, or does she always have access to an air force plane?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Best laugh of the day!

[polymuser]

I wouldn’t even put my ex in their hands.

[Yosemitest]

Here's some FACTS on that DemocRAT proposal and just how much they want to screw the U.S. Citizen workers.

... “Speaker Pelosi unveiled legislation aimed at exploiting the COVID-19 public health crisis by attempting to force the inclusion of a socialist wish list of policies that have nothing to do with the public health and economic emergency,” said House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, Louisiana Republican.

After poring over the 1,400-page proposal, Mr. Scalise offered his characterization of Republicans’ objections to the following items:

Under the heading of “Union Giveaways”:

• Nullifies the White House executive orders on federal collective bargaining and codifies taxpayer-funded union official time.

• Requires a labor union representative on every airline’s board of directors.

• Multiemployer pension bailout lacking needed reforms.

• Permanently raises the minimum wage to $15 for any business that receives federal aid for COVID-19.

• Cancels all debt owed by the U.S. Postal Service to the Treasury.

Under the heading “Green New Deal priorities”:

• Requires all airlines that receive assistance to offset carbon emissions for domestic flights by 2025.

• Includes a $1 billion “cash for clunkers” airplane program where the Transportation Department buys fuel-inefficient planes from airlines in exchange for agreeing to buy new ones.

• Includes expansive new tax-credit for solar and wind energy.

Under “Student Loan Forgiveness”:

• $10,000 blanket loan forgiveness.

Under “Federalizing Elections”:

• Mandates how states must run elections, including the nationalization of ballot harvesting, requiring early voting, same day registration, and no-excuse vote by mail.

• Puts states at risk of costly litigation if they are unable to implement these stringent mandates ahead of the 2020 election.

Under “Immigration Provisions”:

• Requires the Homeland Security Department to automatically extend visas and work authorizations expiring within the next year, including those with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protected Status, for an amount of time equal to their prior visa, authorization or status.

• Limits Customs and Border Patrol’s ability to shutdown processing centers if there is a health crisis on the border and requires CBP to assure the timely adjudication of asylums applications.

• Would allow certain funding to go to sanctuary cities.

Under “Overreaching Mandates on Businesses”:

• Permanent changes to who can serve on corporate boards of directors for companies that receive assistance for payroll and operating costs.

• Mandatory disclosure on supply chain management.

• Requires board diversity disclosure for all publicly traded companies.

• Ban on all federal rulemaking including non-COVID 19 proposals (extends 30 days after emergency) “in an attempt to delay the current administration from promulgating actions House Democrats disagree with.”

Under “New Permanent Mandates”:

• Virtually rewrites the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program policy with no reference to COVID-19 and permanently disallows rulemaking pertaining to work requirements and eligibility.

• Permanent expansion of Obamacare entitlement, “putting the American taxpayer on the hook for endless and unchecked health insurance spending and would remove all incentives for insurers to reduce the cost of health insurance.”

Mr. Scalise said the Democrats’ bill also excludes bipartisan health-care provision in the Senate bill, including a proposal to expand telehealth access for home dialysis patients, hospice and home health patients; and a measure to prevent a payment reduction for durable medical equipment to help patients’ better transition from the hospital to home.

“Instead of working in a bipartisan, bicameral way to provide this immediate relief, the speaker has proposed legislation that includes highly partisan provisions while excluding key patient care provisions that would have a real impact on Americans affected by COVID-19,” Mr. Scalise told his Republican colleagues.

[LottieDah]

Every night I pray that the Democrats do not take the White House and I pray they do not get a majority in the House and Senate. They are evil.

[Howie66]

About the only thing that I would put into a democRAT’s hand is a grenade, minus the pin.

[PGalt]

There is much EVIL in this world. Much of it is in the U.S.A. in politics. Witness.

[Cboldt]

As far as I know, she NEVER flies commercial.

[mewzilla]

Get a load of this, folks...

Dems in the NY legislature, the same idjits that gave us the plastic bag ban, now are trying to ban polystyrene, the stuff you get take-out in.

I kid you not.

[workerbee]

People will long remember what the Democrats did, or rather didn’t do, this week.

People have very short memories.

[Republican Wildcat]

And even then, it is only if they know about it to begin with. Listening to the news reports they report that “McConnell accused Democrats of stalling.” No reporting of any of the garbage in the bill.

[Robert DeLong]

It’s only certain businesses, in the first place. The hardest hit businesses in the 2nd place, and without those businesses a lot of people are out of work. So there is a reason for the businesses to be included. Really what they are, are loans. If they use it to keep operations continuing then the loans do not have to be repaid, if they use the loans for any other purpose then they are treated as low interest loans. At least that is my understanding of how the business aspect would work.

[PGalt]

One duct taped to esch hand and those duct taped behind their backs...and even that is going too easy on these MOFOS for the damage they and their propagandists have done to this republic. Do it under the auspices of “In order to form a more perfect union”.