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.
Hey Toomey you rino! Pipe down and let the adults handle the situation, k? This all seems to be above your pay-grade!
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His Democrat governor pals should open the economy so people don’t need it.
It would appear that there are enough votes in the two chambers that will choose Biden for President. Unless some how the certified electors change. So many of the Republicans have come out of the closet and have shown they are not loyal to us but rather their benefactors.
I don't see how anything short of Martial Law and rounding up these communist traitors will prevent them from removing President Trump from office. They have shown they are not interested in legality only power and position.
If Trump fails it will take a generation to pass away before we can hope to regain what was lost.
I feel like I am living in a Star Wars movie and Senator Palpatine is about to be chosen as the leader.
Hard to tell who is going to come out ahead politically. Probably the side that can best explain its case.
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Probably the side that offers the biggest payments. ......
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Then the Democrats will surely win because they are the party of free stuff, everyone is a victim, reward without effort, etc. If Trump offers $2,000, they’ll have no qualms about countering with, say, $5,000. They can always up the financial ante. So it’s our task to convince people that free-lunch socialism doesn’t work. Ronald Reagan did it, and so can Trump.
Toomey, on the other hand, will be remembered for..........nothing.
A Bill stuffed with 100’s of billions in pork and Foreign Aid does not help
everyday legal tax paying Americans.
Trump is right not to sign.
Up yours RINO Toomy.
He is retiring no one cares what this putz thinks
If Toomey thinks covid relief is really really important than he should have voted against a bill that gave more to foreign nations for bullpucky projects that can wait, than to the American people who are struggling to survive a pandemic right now
Unlike Toomey who will be immediately forgotten.
What will people who have had their lives ruined do without their $600.00 pittance checks???
This guys been a disappointment from day one... but pretty typical PA GOPe putz
Of course that won't happen because Bella Pelosi is busy enjoying her depraved fantasies of dragging the President out of the WH by his hair.
Toomey will not be remembered.
And Toomey be remembered as a selfish quiling neverTrumper.
TOOMEY: Trump will be ‘remembered for chaos and misery and erratic behavior’ if he lets COVID-19 relief expire
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Actually, Congress will be remembered, because they can override his veto if they want.
Let’s see Congress exclusively own the bill...as they should.
These people have no idea what is important and what is not.
Their thinking process is a mess.
Pat Tumor.
Eff Toomey!
Toomey would have to rise several levels to even qualify as a p*ick.
Who the hell does he think he is, pushing a dog of a bill which has a measly $600 for most Americans and $700 billion in pork for foreign countries that don’t even like the U.S., plus all the pork for PC groups and agencies?
FU, Pat Toomey!
Screw Pat Toomey...
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