[ April 19, 2024 ]
Democrats are doing a Wuhan dance. They found their bat to attack the President while passing radical legislation that wouldn’t ordinarily see the light of day.
I hope a more sober Senate has the spine to reject it.
Why The Pelosi Wuhan Virus ‘Deal’ Is A Near-Total GOP Surrender For Blue-Collar Entrepreneurs
Friday night’s deal includes every Democratic wish except taxpayer-funded abortion and not a single Republican proposal. Those will come later, we’re told. We’re always told that, and it almost never happens.By: By Christopher Bedford, The Federalist, March 14, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementWASHINGTON, DC — Washington politicians appear poised to fail the country once again, agreeing Friday evening to a one-sided and partisan coronavirus bill disguised as compromise. It’s not a shock to any conservatives in Washington and probably isn’t surprising to Republican voters either. They’re used to betrayal. But the suffering men and women who run America’s small and mid-sized businesses might have hoped they wouldn’t be abandoned in a D.C. “negotiation.”
Both political parties brought their relief ideas to the table. Washington Republicans predictably focused on small and mid-sized companies, proposing no-interest loans and a suspension of the payroll tax. Washington Democrats predictably focused on both workers and an unrelated radical wish list, proposing shored-up unemployment, Medicare and food stamp benefits, paid sick leave, and, amazingly, taxpayer-funded abortion. Republicans and Democrats roundly agreed on providing free coronavirus testing.
There is good reason to strike an actual bargain on most of these proposals: While both Republicans and Democrats have plans to relieve their favorite groups, both sides are necessary to bring relief to all who need it. Yet Friday night’s deal includes every Democratic wish except taxpayer-funded abortion and not a single Republican proposal. Those will come later, we’re told. We’re always told that, and it almost never happens.
It’s not about points here. While Democrats are right to get money to help people afford to stay home while sick and to get by when they’ve been laid off, there will be many more lay-offs when small and mid-sized companies with disrupted supply lines and cratering revenue streams go out of business.
Mid-sized businesses — the type you might have never heard of but that employ people all over your town — aren’t getting the no-interest loans they need. Small businesses, which would struggle to get those loans even if they were part of the package, aren’t getting the immediate relief a payroll tax-suspension would provide, despite the president demanding it.
These businesses need anything they can cling to to stay afloat and delay further layoffs. There is nothing for them in this apparent deal, nothing for the blue-collar businessman this country’s middle class was founded on. Even the $50 billion President Donald Trump previously announced for Small Business Administration loans are only good for big businesses who can guarantee it, get the lowered 3.75 percent rate, and work the months of accrued debt into their future projections. These big businesses do not include the entrepreneurs who are bootstrapping to make it for the American dream.
Republicans say they’ll have their day — just after they give House Speaker Nancy Pelosi nearly everything she asked for. “Both [Democrat and Republican] leaders made clear,” The Washington Post reports, “that the legislation agreed to Friday … would be followed by further relief measures. That could, potentially, include some version of the broad payroll tax cut sought by the president.”
Those measures could also include taxpayer funding for abortion, if we’re being honest about all that was left on the table. “You get everything you want and we can work on my asks later” is not how Washington negotiations begin — it is how they end.
“[But] as the crisis spiraled,” the Post continues, “lawmakers felt they needed to act quickly to provide economic relief to affected Americans.”
This sense of urgency does not seem to have been felt by Pelosi, who delayed negotiations Friday by pushing for policies that would allow taxpayer dollars to reimburse labs for abortions. The Hyde Amendment, which blocks taxpayer dollars from funding abortion, has been the norm since President Jimmy Carter’s administration, and nothing about the pandemic suggests any need to force citizens to pay to facilitate abortion — a mortal sin in the church Pelosi crows her adherence to.
Judging by the results of Friday’s negotiations, the Republicans are the ones who felt the urgency — an urgency that caused them to abandon their proposals. Mitch McConnell’s Republican Senate is next up, faced with the option to move quickly or demand their policies be included as well — a delay Democrats would be sure to capitalize on politically.
“While we could have passed this bill on our own, I believe it was important for us to assure the American people that we can work together to manage this crisis,” Pelosi told reporters.
We should indeed be working together, but this is not that. It is a surrender and it is a betrayal.
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4 years ago
McConnell calls Pelosi’s stupid bill a rough draft — vows to fix it.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell suggested Saturday that the
GOP-controlled chamber is eager to help pass a coronavirus spending bill
to help American families and businesses, but said the bill that his
chamber received overnight from the Democrat-controlled House was a
“rough draft” of legislation that “fell far short of what American
families and small businesses deserve.”
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/mcconnell-suggest-senate-eager-help-coronavirus-pelosis-bill-rough-draft
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Remember folks McConnel is a RINO leaning leader at heart = Rand Paul he ain’t…
4 years ago
McConnell calls Pelosi’s stupid bill a rough draft — vows to fix it.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell suggested Saturday that the
GOP-controlled chamber is eager to help pass a coronavirus spending bill
to help American families and businesses, but said the bill that his
chamber received overnight from the Democrat-controlled House was a
“rough draft” of legislation that “fell far short of what American
families and small businesses deserve.”
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/mcconnell-suggest-senate-eager-help-coronavirus-pelosis-bill-rough-draft
4 years ago
South Korea seems to be tailing off. Epidemiologists are watching them because they have good health care, and their strategies are similar to the USA.
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
THIS shows the number of new cases each day in S. Korea. The classic epidemic prediction is a rapid rise, followed by a gradual decline. That’s what we see here, but we need more data.
Japan shows a similar pattern.
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Thanks for posting this!
Since China is so dishonest and hides stuff, South Korea and Japan will hopefully be a good gauge. The Communist Chinese were not prepared because they don’t care about their people. Less people is better for them. This puts the 30 day time frame in persepective. If we can contain it, we can follow this pattern.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Felix: By my rough calculations, if S Korea is a guide, the worst will be over in the US in about 1 month. The incidence of new cases will be trending down.
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
That is what I am hoping for so life can get back to normal and hopefully people will settle down. Trump is doing what he should to contain it. I hope the EU wakes up!
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Thanks for posting this!
Since China is so dishonest and hides stuff, South Korea and Japan will hopefully be a good gauge. The Communist Chinese were not prepared because they don’t care about their people. Less people is better for them. This puts the 30 day time frame in persepective. If we can contain it, we can follow this pattern.
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
How did Korea become somewhat of an epicenter for this virus? Being a predominately Christian nation, they provide FREE healthcare to anyone that is legally in their country. So, over 700 infected chinee, from chineeland, flew into Chejudo (visa free entry island for chinee tourists and the like). The chinks couldn’t get into a hospital in chineeland. So, ill and running high fevers, flew into the ROK. Taken immediately into hospitals, not even knowing what they had …. Infections abounded.
It’s somewhat like the 2009-2010 mezskin flu (AKA: swine flu and H1N1) which originated out of spicland. Thousands upon thousands of spics kept crossing the border. That’s why it got so out of hand that it wasn’t even considered a threat until over ONE THOUSAND Americans had died, with another SIXTEEN THOUSAND to follow (die).
But, we wouldn’t want to close our borders to spics, would we?
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Wow, such colorful epithets! ‘Spicland’? What’s your ethnicity, so I can bad mouth you too!
But more seriously, yes, throughout history, epidemics have prompted people to leave the infected area. The USA often had cholera epidemics in the Wild West, and whole towns emptied out, and that was good. Cholera comes from sewage-contaminated water, so leaving town actually helped stop the epidemic.
When things got bad in China, it was clear that many infected people would flee to where there was better health care. That’s why I’m glad Trump shut down the flights from China.
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
When my ethnicity sends an epidemic, into the United States of America, that kills close to twenty thousand .. .while there are thousands sneaking in and being placed on taxpayer provided “assistance” … Fire away.
So far, seems like the only ethnicity that fits that bill are spics.
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Did you see this?
A replacement for attending closed churches?
Pornhub Offers Italians Free Premium Service During Coronavirus Quarantine
THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.14 Mar 2020
ROME — The online pornography giant Pornhub has offered Italians free access to its premium service during the coronavirus crisis, just as the Catholic Church has cancelled all Masses and limited access to confession and other sacraments.
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“Pornhub has decided to donate its Modelhub March revenue to help Italy overcome the emergency,” the company stated. “To keep you company at home during these weeks, you’ll be able to access Pornhub Premium for free for the whole month, with no need for a credit card.”
…
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/14/pornhub-offers-italians-free-premium-service-during-coronavirus-quarantine/
4 years ago
so why are you showing the HR1 bill? passed (03/08/2019)
4 years ago
In my previous posts I examined that the failure of the Soviet Union was due to the lack of acknowledging of the values of kindness, health & English (US) & showed that there is no system that can succeed without these values as core-values.
Now I want to point out what was another observable occurrence of the Soviet Union’s failure:
Lack of cooperation led to significant differences in product-quality.
We should strive to cooperate globally to ensure the cultivation of ecological best-quality basics.
What ensures cooperation on a global level are common values that are credible: kindness & health. Kindness means also truthfulness & health means also healthy diet & ecology.
Just like at the end of the Soviet Union America is now arming Muhammadist caliphates destroying any base for a global government.
Therefore we should oust Erdogan- & Buhari arming unhealthy, unecological Trump, end his unjust missile defense-deal with Saudi Arabia & force Saudi Arabia on their knees to free the African slaves they enslave, stop declitorization & free the vocal anti-Muhammadists they torture NoW.
4 years ago
Thanks to Ivanka and her persistent pestering for Family Leave only for FEDERAL employees, Trump EOed it and Pelosi wants that for everyone in the private sector! This is an easy way to make that happen permanently. It should never have happened at the federal level, let alone the private sector. The business interruptions will be horrendous. At the federal level they operate in slow motion if at all. Contractors do the work.
DEMS are fighting for you to be government dependent and working as little as possible. Trumps creating jobs is destroying that mentality and DEMS can’t have that. The last thing DEMS want to support is small and medium sized business. They don’t want a middle class. They want two classes – the elite and the impoverished. It’s always been that way regardless of how DEMS LIE about fighting for the middle class.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Exactly – The top 1% – SOROS, NEW WORLD ORDER, BILDERBERGER, ROCKERFELLAS, You KNOW who I’m talking about. A “class” to which all dems aspire. Then the “remainder” – YOU and ME and everyone who’s
NOT them – The ‘IMPOVERISHED”masses. Too bad it’s not gonna work out for them.
4 years ago
Reply to
Moya McNulty
Don’t worry about any future for WE “deplorable’s”- the Globalist’s cabal has big plans for us…lol.
4 years ago
Reply to
mtman2
THAT’s WHAT DJT is all about – – The “Globalist “cabal” – what a JOKE!!! I LOVE MY COUNTRY, I LOVE AMERICAN PATRIOTS, I LOVE MY PRESIDENT. I may not agree 100% with what you “say” but I’ll fight to the death for your RIGHT TO SAY IT!
4 years ago
Reply to
Moya McNulty
Yes well if potus DJT is a Globalist then WE have no hope except ourselves….!
However – it is a given HILLIARY was one as well as a criminal and according to her rapist husband a practicing
“New Age Witch” even 45 yrs ago…:
3 years ago
Reply to
mtman2
You misunderstood what I said – DJT in ANTI-GLOBALIST. But I DON’.T UNDERSTAND how Ms.P. doesn’t GET IT – abortion is MURDER. If you KILL a BABY you’ve committed MURDER. Duh. We waited 12 days while Ms.P worked on her Kennedy Center (!)
We held up LIFE-SAVING funding for the AMERICAN PEOPLE – EVERY DAY she held things up, THOUSANDS
more people DIED from COVID. SHE is a MURDERER!
DEAD COVID VICTIMS plus DEAD BABY HUMANS.
Ms.P.- ALL THE REST – at NUREMBERG 2.
3 years ago
Reply to
Moya McNulty
Whoopsie – yes well there are a few CC’s out there that are –
“never Trumper’s”…
Nan Pill-osi is a Globalist ANTI-America parasite who holds the line for her higher ups…
Trump is “WE the Peoples” teeth sunk in her + DC’s @$$…lol.
Let’s make sure she’s gone and Trump gets another 4 “toothy” yrs…!
4 years ago
how many americans died in traffic accidents yesterday? i’ll tell you. more than all the deaths attributred to the wuhan hoax in the last 3 months. should trump decree that we all quit driving?
4 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
Of course! He should also ban motor vehicles, especially the high capacity 18 wheelers, and busses.
4 years ago
“A. B. Stoddard” is a pathetic liar who purports to be a reporter but is simply an irrational four year-old screaming “Make him go away! Make him go away!”
Spouting the sickening media-moron foolishness about the administration lagging behind in “testing,” when testing is meaningless without effective quarantine — people should know when they have flu-like symptoms and err on the side of caution — she twists everything to fit her bitter will in her depraved mind.
And how the country is so woefully short of ventilators, when there are not anywhere near the number of hospital beds, or hospitals, in which to deploy the number of ventilators she irrationally whines about, in any case.
She’s a typical mass-media one-dimensional tyrant who only knows how to string together the words that she agrees with on one side and the words she doesn’t agree with on the other. She’s one of the many malicious traitors on TV who hope so desperately for this virus to destroy our country just to take down Trump. And she, probably inadvertently, has devised the perfect onomatopoeia name for herself — “…a B.”
4 years ago
We will take Russia, you can have your natural ally China.
China: The original sh*t hole nation.
Democrat: The sh*t hole political party.
4 years ago
The Virus and The President.
by A. B. Stoddard
Testing.
Testing.
Testing.
Ventilators.
Ventilators.
Ventilators.
Testing.
Ventilators.
Ventilators.
Testing.
Slow.
Slow.
Slow.
Slow.
4 years ago
Off topic – What viscous media! –
Media Accuses Trump of Fake News over Google Screening Tool Claim
By ALLUM BOKHARI 14 Mar 2020
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“Instead, a health-focused subsidiary owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, intends to launch a small-scale website next week to begin to triage California-based patients.”
It is true that the triage app is being launched by an Alphabet subsidiary, Verily, but many people still use “Alphabet” and “Google” interchangeably. YouTube, for example, is still widely described as a “Google-owned company,” despite the fact that it is now technically owned by Alphabet, which was set up by Google executives in 2015 as part of the tech giant’s corporate restructuring.
In a tweet, Google confirmed that Verily is working on a triage app that will first be trialed in California.
…
“Instead, a health-focused subsidiary owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, intends to launch a small-scale website next week to begin to triage California-based patients.”
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“We (Verily) are developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing,” said the statement.
“Verily is in the early stages of development, and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time. We appreciate the support of government officials and industry partners and thank the Google engineers who have volunteered to be part of this effort.”
…
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/03/14/media-accuses-trump-of-fake-news-over-google-screening-tool-claim/
4 years ago
Congress just paid $125 million for Ukraine Security Assistance even though Ukraine has a Nazi problem and Nazis have infiltrated the Ukraine military. Somehow the “white supremacist” in the US are “terrorists” but the white supremacists in Ukraine are “God’s Children”? https://www.rt.com/news/483163-russian-embassy-kiev-flare-gun/
4 years ago
Americans MUST DEMAND – – ONE TOPIC = ONE VOTE!
NO more loading “pork barrel” hidden MULTIPLE agendas inside or along with a good topic!!!
ONE TOPIC = ONE VOTE!!!!!!!
4 years ago
never let a crisis go to waste. well, Nancy-poo, what if,just imagine, if every company closed until the ‘all clear’ is sounded. Not much tax revenue coming in for killing babies then, is there ? Of course, y`all can keep printing all the money you want. It`s worth about a negative $17.00/silver dollar, now. And more. Steal some more value,purchase power from us. No one will notice. Print me up a couple billion too, if you don`t mind.
4 years ago
Pelosi is using this faux crisis to harvest a plethora of socialist degenerate programs. Her goal is to create a meme that Trump has slowed the response by refusing to sign them into law.
4 years ago
Yet another piece of evidence suggesting this coronavirus is being used for political gain.
Other evidence [and I am not suggesting the virus should be taken lightly]:
– Swine Flu comparisons are made, yet no closings or cancellations of the current magnitude were enacted and encouraged by Trump-hating organizations. It is an economy killer…..from the demand side.
– Swine Flu had 13,000 US deaths. They predict 1.5 million from the coronavirus [where and how do they get this number…if it is like Swine Flu?]
– Swine Flu had testing from the CDC almost immediately…..for coronavirus they were few, late, and ineffective. The Trump haters at the CDC refused to work with the WHO. They had valid tests ready to go. CDC wanted all lab work done thru them….another bottleneck. Obummer’s CDC didn’t build up the stockpiles??? How does that work??
Trump looked beat and depressed and called it a “hoax” for a lot of good reasons. I’d rather hear and see that than the previous president’s careful choosing of words….that ending up sounding like a bunch of contrived B.S.
Stay healthy.
4 years ago
Dear Mainstream Media,
Just how far does Pelosi have to go before you will accurately comment on her? Just how far does Joe Biden have to go with his inane comments before you will accurately comment on him? And is there anyone in the mainstream media who has enough self-respect to honestly report news events? You people are far beyond any level of honesty, just truly pathetic.
4 years ago
????Psssssstt anyone wanna buy some toilet paper? …… Cheap????
