Posted on 12/27/2020 11:36:36 AM PST by RandFan
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) on Sunday urged President Trump to sign the coronavirus aid package that has passed Congress, warning the president’s legacy is at stake.
“You don’t get everything you want, even if you’re president of the United States,” Toomey said on “Fox News Sunday.” “I think the COVID relief measures are really, really important.”
“In my state, as in many other states, we have governors who are closing down businesses again,” he added.
Toomey called it a “hopeful sign” that Trump has not yet vetoed the bill passed by Congress, even as he has demanded larger direct payments of $2,000 to Americans.
The Pennsylvania senator suggested that the president was thinking of his legacy with the demand but said that “he’ll be remembered for chaos and misery and erratic behavior if he allows this to expire.”
“I understand the president would like to send bigger checks to everybody. ... I think what he ought to do is sign this bill and then make the case,” Toomey said. “I don’t agree with $2,000 to people who have had no lost income whatsoever, but the president’s free to make that case.”
Asked about Trump’s recent round of presidential pardons, Toomey said former national security adviser Michael Flynn was the victim of prosecutorial misconduct and that it was “perfectly legitimate to pardon him.”
However, he said that in “some of these other cases we have tax fraud, bank fraud, witness tampering, obstruction of justice,” in an apparent reference to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Toomey compared the pardons to former President Clinton’s pardon of financier and Democratic donor Marc Rich.
“It is legal, it is constitutional, but I think it’s a misuse of the power,” Toomey said.
He rode the coattails of the Tea Party into office and then abandoned Conservatives.
He is a uniparty hack who, no doubt, has a cushy lobbying or consulting job lined up when he retires at the end of his term.
He rode the coattails of the Tea Party into office and then abandoned Conservatives.
He is a uniparty hack who, no doubt, has a cushy lobbying or consulting job lined up when he retires at the end of his term.
Toomey and his party of establishment political sellout stooges are not smart enough to realize he'll be remembered as the hardest working, greatest America First president in modern American history.
Pat Toomey...Wall Street Yes...Main Street No
And YOU , Mr. Toomey, will be remembered as a gutless, spineless, backstabbing piece of crap who sided with the democrats against Americans.
What a weak-kneed p*ssy Toomey is.
Toomey is compliant with Governor Wolf what else is new.
BTW, neighbor is a great guy. Great Trump supporter...
Toomey, another back stabbing POS.
Pelosi isn’t ramming anything through. She should have done it the first time. These are horrible people.
Don't look at post #10.
Toomey needs to have a decent challenger next term.
Isn’t Toomey leaving and not running?
yea, they don’t want to get torched too.they would rather torch America..feelin the love?
And F'in RINOs like Arlen Toomey didn't do a damn thing about stopping an unconstitutional shut down. Republicans are a bunch of unprincipled pussies. Screw all of them.
My thought exactly!!!!
Haven’t seen ANY effort to take on Wolf from Toomey. NOTHING! But take shot at Trump. What a FAH!
You’re not wrong, but right now there are much better reasons to be infuriated.
The weasels are showing their true colors....primary time!!!!
“”I don’t agree with $2,000 to people who have had no lost income whatsoever, but the president’s free to make that case.””
I agree with that but what sort of procedure is in place to sort through those who haven’t lost any income? How about each state’s unemployment records? That would at least work for EMPLOYEES who have filed for unemployment but there are business owners also to consider who aren’t on anyone’s payroll. It could get pretty convoluted..
How long does anyone think the states would take to pull something like that together? STATE EMPLOYEES? HA! It should be at the push of a button but I’m sure they could make it a lot more complicated than that.
It’s the way it SHOULD happen anyway...lost a job - get a check. Didn’t lose a job - don’t get a check..None of us on SS should be getting checks.
She has offered another bil
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