Posted on 12/30/2020 7:18:14 AM PST by dynachrome
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday introduced his own version of a bill to increase the $600 stimulus checks from the coronavirus relief package to $2,000, but also included two other major priorities for President Trump.
The legislation would also repeal Section 230, the controversial liability protection for online platforms, and create a committee on the Election Assistance Commission to study election integrity.
McConnell set the table for a bill to address these three issues in his floor remarks Tuesday.
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Perhaps too little too late, but I’d like to see it pass. Holding social media companies accountable is worth a trillion dollars. It might help save the nation.
“I had to pay off the people who ‘helped’ with the election first thing, otherwise things wouldn’t be pretty”
Why did he not pare down the original bill?
This will not pass, jmho.
The House of Reps will add too much other crap to it.
Agreed, and even if he did the right thing and cut all the pork, it would have even less of a chance.
Of course, we have no idea how much pork and other payoffs are in the bill.
Agreed, it's DOA.
This is McConnell’s way of Killing the $2000 Bill without saying he is against it. He knows that if he put the increase Bill on the floor for a straight up or down vote it would pass. Coupling it with two other pieces of legislation is a sure way to kill it, because he knows he is running out of time in this legislative session even if he had the votes, which he doesn’t. The only hope of getting an up or down vote on the $2000 Bill would be 12+ Republican senators to join the Democrats and force a vote. So far, they only have 5.
GOP. The party of stupid.
Why not add these items in the Bill that just passed.
Yesterday’s post here. I spelled mcconnell wrong when I searched. I didn’t look at ‘breaking” either. Need more coffee.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3919829/posts
Exactly. The Turd will be happier as MINORITY LEADER, than
Majority leader.
100% agree with you. President Trump is absolutely right (as usual) and this is suicidally stupid on McConnell’s part. Yet here we are.
Ultimately what needs to happen is a bunch of GOP senators need to go public supporting President Trump’s call for the increases and push for a clean bill for each of President Trump’s issues. Let the Democrats show themselves to be against election integrity with a clean bill. Let the $2000 checks pass. Let everyone show where they stand on each individual agenda item.
That would require 12+ GOP Senators to buck McConnell. If Trump REALLY ants the $2000 checks, he needs to open up and campaign against McConnell’s tactics. In the absence of that, it will never happen.
Could have done this last week but was busy threatening Tommy Tuberville!
All patriots would, but it doesn't have a chance of passing in the Democrat House. Why would they?
How much more “stimulation” does the economy need?? From what I gather, the biggest obstacle to it humming along are the lock downs along with keeping businesses shut. I took a look at interest rates today. Nationally 5 year CDs are paying 1% or so. Why is that. Simple there is so much “money” in the system no one needs it except if the tissue paper runs out. We need people working and making things, not pulling dollars out of the mail box while watching the View.
An aside: if there is no ammo around, why not send everyone a few boxes of 9s which is more valuable than dollars these days.
That's the point.
Yep!
“And somewhere men are laughing,
and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville—
mighty Casey has struck out.”
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