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.
Ran as a conservative to get elected but is a complete fraud.
Toomer won’t be remembered. thank God. what a scum. Vote for pork and against the 2nd amendment.
Probably the side that offers the biggest payments.
I say President Trump should take the amount of the entire omnibus spending bill and divide it by the number of recipients ... and insist on THAT amount in direct payments to U.S. taxpayers.
It probably comes to about $5,000 or so, not $1,200 or $2,000.
Isn’t it sweet that Fox news brings this lying a..hole on to beat up on POTUS. Their ratings aren’t low enough yet I guess.
Same problem in Michigan calling Gretchen. No reason to waste the air.
If a TRUE WuFlu relief bill had been passed, not a “pork” bill with a pittance tossed at Americans like crumbs for scavenging birds, Trump would have signed it, pronto. Trump is Americans FIRST, Congress is obviously America LAST & I’m sick of it. I hope the d@mn bill expires/is vetoed, whatever it takes for all that pork for everyone except Americans, to not leave America’s coffers.
It’s very interesting DJT has accomplished more things and has more credits than most presidents for the last 50 years yet he has the media against him, the democrats (and half of the republicans) against him, the courts against him (even the ones who he appointed), and the military against him? Why is it that they hate him so much? Is it only that he is opposed to the deep state?
“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.”
Tell me Toomey, what exactly is in the bill for COVID relief thats really really important? Is it the $600 for Americans out of work or the $10 million in Pakistani gender studying? What a POS you truly are!
Toomey is AN ASSHOLE! Anti-Republican his whole life.
Why did CONgress wait until a week before the deadline to do anything about it?? And then they added over a Trillion Dollars of PORK to it??
Like they’ll remember him for anything good if he signs.
It’s their fault for running out the clock, own it you jackasses.
These guys are pretty desperate for those kickbacks from all of the unaccountable money.
“I think the COVID relief measures are really, really important.”
No you don’t, Toomey. Otherwise you would have been unhappy with the original amount and you would have argued for the bigger amount the first time around since it was available and you let it stay in the bank instead of out to the people. That’s failure (strike) number one.
“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.’”
And this is what was lost on the reason many voted for Trump. They didn’t put in a politician, they put in a businessman. A legacy? His worth according to Forbes is estimated at:
Commercial Real Estate – $1.2 billion
Residential Real Estate – $148 million
Hospitality – $38 million
Hotel Licensing and Management – $42 million
Golf Courses – $217 million
Other Properties – $295 million
And he has an actual liquid cash amount of over $160 million that will lose no value.
Does Toomey really think Trump is concerned about what people think about him other than his friends and business associates. He is not a wu$$y politician, he is a businessman. He was hired as a CEO, not to be intimidated by lying about him. And that’s what made him different.
But, prior to the effort by the governors and if they had left it alone:
Almost 4 million jobs created since election in 2016.
The most employed Americans in history.
Creation of more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs and manufacturing jobs growing at the faster rate in more than three decades.
Economic growth hit 4.2% one quarter.
New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low.
Median household income the highest ever recorded.
African-American unemployment recently was the lowest rate ever.
Asian-American unemployment recently the lowest rate ever.
Hispanic-American unemployment at the lowest rate ever.
Women’s unemployment reaching the lowest rate in 65 years.
Youth unemployment the lowest rate in nearly half a century.
Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma.
Veterans unemployment reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.
Almost 3.9 million Americans have left food stamps since 2016.
The Pledge to America’s Workers has employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans and promoting vocational education.
Retail sales surged last month, up another 6% over last year.
Signed the biggest tax cuts and reforms in history. Over $300 billion poured back into the U.S. in the first quarter alone.
Trump tax bill produced lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years for small businesses. That’s failure (strike) number two.
And after the state attacks:
Operation Warp Speed, creation of a safe COVID vaccine in record time.
And unless the IQ has gone down in the country, and the “so called” GOP doesn’t fight for him, these are the things that he should be remembered for. And not for your failure, Toomey, of not creating an intelligent bill with all the money possible going back into the hands of the people. And why, both times didn’t you work to take the money that was going into arts people and put it in with the people who actually needed it? That’s (strike) three, you’re out.
RNC, pay attention. And if you get the entire starting line up, the corporate boxes and the box seats will still sell out.
wy69
Toomey will be remembered as a quisling weasel who refused to stand up to the Socialist Democrats and allowed us to sink into oblivion
“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.”
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He’s very worried about losing the pork projects, but he’s a fiscal conservative when it comes to writing checks for American workers.
WHAT RELEIF???
Has some other hard working American gotten relief and not told us???
We were just talking about that ‘round the dinner table, yep.
We fretted that we sure need to get some money to those foreign countries. Then hurry and get $75 million to the National Endowment for the Arts, that’s an absolute must if they are to save our bacon from the coronie!
Hmmmm, maybe we should call the CDC the Xi-D-Xi?
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