Pelosi’s So-Called Coronavirus Bill Filled With Pork, Over-Reaching Government
What do a bailout for the post office and a diverse corporate board have to do with the coronavirus pandemic?
Never let a crisis go to waste! When the government sees an opportunity to obtain more power they take it. Thing is they will never let go once it gets that power.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi displayed that attitude today with her “Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act.”
Don’t you love the names they give their bills? You cannot vote against it because then you hate workers and families!
The bill does have a few parts that will actually help workers and families:
- $30 billion directly provided to states to help them stabilize their funding for schools.
- $10 billion to help alleviate the harm caused by the coronavirus on higher education institutions, while providing them with added flexibility to continue operating during the crisis.
- The legislation also would help current borrowers with their student debt burden and GI Bill benefits.
Pelosi’s press release on the bill only highlights the parts that address those affected by the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Even then it leaves out the parts that describe ways the government will continue to impede private businesses.
So let’s look at the pork and big government portions of the bill.
Rachel Bovard at The Conservative Partnership Institute did an excellent job outlining the material not related to coronavirus.
The bill includes a bailout for the post office. The Democrats want to force big corporations to have diversity on the corporate board. There are a few parts about voting because that fits in with this pandemic.
Don’t forget retirement plans for local journalists!
Pelosi’s #COVID19 bill is 1,119 pages and contains provisions for “conducting risk-limiting audits of results of elections” so yeah it’s really very focused on the crisis at hand.??♀️ pic.twitter.com/Q6axBi14lZ
— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) March 23, 2020
It also bails out the postal service. pic.twitter.com/cy9GYoK7zj
— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) March 23, 2020
Also, guys, let’s maybe focus on restricting stock buybacks and executive compensation with taxpayer loans and save the woke-scolding for later? pic.twitter.com/6iv0TKbbwU
— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) March 23, 2020
Same day voter registration, a long-time Dem wishlist item, very relevant to addressing those businesses and working families about to go under from #COVID19. pic.twitter.com/KizGbEYq9O
— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) March 23, 2020
We can agree or disagree about the value of collective bargaining for federal employees but can we all agree that it doesn’t belong in a relief bill DESIGNED TO HELP PEOPLE WITH #COVID19. pic.twitter.com/bswhj4dMeG
— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) March 23, 2020
I’m just going to throw this out there: Requiring the airlines to fully offset their carbon emissions is not going to save the airlines. pic.twitter.com/WcmHuI5eQr
— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) March 23, 2020
You know what families who can’t work and are struggling to make rent really care about?
Being able to look up greenhouse gas emissions from the flights they can’t afford to book. pic.twitter.com/klGOhE8uOM
— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) March 23, 2020
I, too, care for community journalism.
But right now none of them have jobs because of #COVID19 so maybe this isn’t the time to modify their retirement plans. pic.twitter.com/fK0OO9VqVQ
— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) March 23, 2020
I mean. Again. Worthy goal? Perhaps. We can debate it. But why are we establishing all these new programs when what we really need is to PASS A BILL TO HELP PEOPLE WHO CANNOT WORK. pic.twitter.com/Awv3Thjc8h
— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) March 23, 2020
Annnnd….in case you thought we were done with the woke-scolding, you were wrong.
Families can't pay their mortgages and there aren't enough ventilators, but you know what we will have? Corporate budgets dedicated to diversity & inclusion initiatives! pic.twitter.com/tBuO3hrBfB
— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) March 23, 2020
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She is scum.
Malignant Narcissist Nancy
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Psst……
Don’t Tell Nancy, but She just Led ALL THE DEMS, and herself into a “box canyon trap”…….
It’s more like Pelosi is leading the Democrat herd over a buffalo jump (cliff). Their bones will be bleaching in the sun for decades.
Lizzie Warren will never know what that is.
Oh My! Pelosi has LOST her MIND!
I just got an urgent text from Nancy Pelosi!
She said:
”Guys don’t be fooled! I was told a mask and gloves is enough to go to the store, but when I got there people were also wearing pants and shirts”
I don’t think there is a mind bleach powerful enough to get that image out of my head….
Mnuchin Explains all the Good Things the DEMS are Deliberately Blocking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXmAKY7Yq_U&feature=emb_logo
But…….
If you (like Microsoft, Apple, Big Tech, etc…. did Trillions in Dollars of stock buybacks, then you don’t get any govt bailouts.
MUST WATCH – Tom Cotton Outlines Nancy Pelosi Emergency Relief Scheme…
“There are many people, many voters, simply stunned at how the Democrats are trying to use the COVID-19 economic emergency to add unrelated ideological elements to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.
Senator Tom Cotton walks through some of the items the Democrats are demanding before they will allow economic relief to U.S. companies and workers. MUST WATCH.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/23/must-watch-tom-cotton-outlines-nancy-pelosi-emergency-relief-scheme/
She had nothing to lose, because they are going to lose big in the upcoming election.
She needs a hug from Rand Paul.
If this isn’t ALL FAKE,
why haven’t DEMS
suffered from it?
Maybe some have symptoms but are too selfish to selfp-quarantine.
The democrats view politics as a deathmatch, I believe you are spot on with this analysis. If the democrats see a way to have more floor votes by sending forth potentially or actually infected Senators, I for one have absolutely no doubt they would do so.
Democrats are in a self inflicted death spiral.
He can head-butt her while he’s at it.
Ewwwww…
He’d probably get cooties……
She’s worse than scum:
“I, Nancy Pelosi, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God” (5 U.S.C. §3331).”
Pelosi corruption and payoffs:
http://www.collegiatetimes.com/opinion/column-nancy-pelosi-s-house-of-hypocrisy/article_762bf1b4-e738-50f0-8996-c9fdd2d2dd15.html
Pelosi son in Ukraine scandal:
https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Must-see–New-evidence-shows-Pelosi-corruption.html?soid=1102282725291&aid=q4cH1FBPOP0
If ANYONE in this country needs more evidence that there most of our elected officials are in business for themselves – at the price of our nation – they really are either very dense, orpathetically narcisissitic, or they are on the swamp/left/islamic payroll, directly or indirectly. Or all the above.
The Disturbing Truth About Nancy Pelosi:
https://www.amazon.com/Shes-Boss-Disturbing-Truth-Pelosi/dp/1595230661
Schumer is in the same category. Two traitors.
She is indeed scum. But what about the Dems who vote in lockstep with her directives from the House?
IF they cant get a clean bill now of all time. THey need to be RECALLED. Apparently some knuckle draggers don’t like that comment. I don’t lie the detritus they support either.
I kind of doubt people don’t like it. The problem is that congressmen aren’t subject to recall. Under the constitution, the houses can eject a member by a 2/3 vote, but recall by voters/states isn’t provided for.
Are you related to Doug Stamper?
sad that gop also played games like extension of an abstinence education program due to expire in May. not at all related to the “emergency” we are dealing with.
course that sort of pales to tax breaks for solar crap and how much crap an airline spews into the sky.
heres a hint, with no passengers there are no flights so no crap spewed into the air.
oh- this will fail bigly.
It is Already Backfiring Bigly on the DEMS.
How so?
“The bill does have a few parts that will actually help workers and families:
$30 billion directly provided to states to help them stabilize their funding for schools.”
Why do states need extra money to “stabilize schools”? Their expenses are down and I KNOW I’m not getting a property tax refund any time soon because schools shut down.
“$10 billion to help alleviate the harm caused by the coronavirus on higher education”
Same thing here … I haven’t heard of any universities refunding tuition.
So it seems to me, this is just more money shoveled at the teachers union in specific, and the highly Dem-partisan education sector in general.
Universities are being expected to refund room and board money that is likely already spent at this stage. Tuition will not be refunded because the semester will be finished online (no one that I know of has cancelled the semester).
They have lower expenses but still have payrolls and much lower revenue (no dining revenue, endowment revenue is tied to the market, etc.)
I’m not going to disagree with you on responsibility of handling money, but I wanted to address your questions from a higher ed perspective.
The school administrations and all their staff
just gave themselves a
FOUR MONTH PAID VACATION!
But it’s making more work for the teachers.
Again, that’s actually untrue.
In my state, Universities were mandated to close and go online, so no one “gave themselves” anything.
Secondly, I don’t love administrative bloat, but they are working very hard right now to keep the infrastructure afloat and maintain lines of communication. Our university was not set up to go online (which is a problem in and of itself), so this has not been a simple transition.
” Our university was not set up to go online (which is a problem in and of itself), so this has not been a simple transition.”
Agree with that. I taught online courses at two universities. The courses required a lot of preparation and staff support (exams, homework, &c.). I was given a few days notice (< a week) this time to pivot to an online offering, my first online exam is Wednesday. Angels and ministers of grace…(Hamlet).
“Universities are being expected to refund room and board and more…”
American univerities are corrupt sewers for leftism, and the likes of oberlin should be allowed to go broke. Let those psycho teachers get work in the private sector.
A lot of us engineering faculty did work for a living in a previous life.
So Perfesser, can you say “Weyerhaeuser U?”
RE:
” Our university was not set up to go online (which is a problem in and of itself), so this has not been a simple transition.”
Agree with that. I taught online courses at two universities. The courses required a lot of preparation and staff support (exams, homework, &c.). I was given a few days notice (< a week) this time to pivot to an online offering, my first online exam is Wednesday. Angels and ministers of grace…(Hamlet).
Does Oberlin even have an engineering faculty?
I think a bigger problem than teachers are incompetent bloated administrations. Notice that this bill promotes even more useless affirmative BS. K-12 and colleges have been totally corrupted by incompetence.
A recent study found that since about 1985 every last penny of increased funding for education had ended up in
Administration Budgets!!
So I run a small insurance agency in Olympia. Cancellations are starting to come in. Downtown Oly was struggling due to homeless druggies, this just killed it.
Denny Heck… giving congress heck now?
Olympia has a downtown?
Is Heck any more effective than Kilmer?
she had a full week to pander to every special interest group she could find, probably some that we have never heard of.
1400 pages?! Seems they’ve been working on it for more than a week.
It sounds like they threw everything they had into one pot.
Asking seriously: Isn’t there some executive action the president can pen to get the bill passed without the Dem pork?
Was it Reagan who pleaded for the line item veto several times?
Clinton got the line item veto in 1996. He used it 82 times before the SCOTUS declared the law unconstitutional in 1998 (Clinton v. City of New York)
Just need a new version of it.
That will not have been covered by the DEMS bought off courts and judges.
Certain things can be funded through the emergency military fund but Trump was hesitant because I believe it spends from the military budget.
These creeps just want to play games all day.
Its be nice to buy needed supplies before this gets worse. We haven’t seen the top yet. Makes you how many more people will get sick from going to the store once the delayed money comes in and the infection rate is higher.
This is a real instance of government delay causing people to die.
“How dare you!!!”
Republicans should not cave in.
I know, I know, they don’t have the marbles.
But they should not cave in. Trump (and every other Republican leaders) should go out on TV today and plead with the American people.
They should point out what the Democrats are doing and recruit the American people to start calling their Representatives in Congress, flood the lines to express our disgust with what they are doing. This is bad, really bad.
“I know, I know, they don’t have the marbles…”
Let them reach into their pants and pull out some more marbles.
McConnell needs to join PDJT at his pressers.
Put the negotiations on air.
The worst part is that half of the population (democrats & “principled conservatives”) are all screaming “Yeah, you go girl!! OrangeManBad!!!” If the democrat voters weren’t on board with this kind of stuff, their reps would be voting NeverPelosi not NeverTrump.
Nancy calls in her flying monkeys..
The local journalist retirement plan is the most transparent of a typical Dem ploy. Add a few bribes into a bill to get favorable coverage…in this case, local coverage.
She inspires a song I’ll probably never finish / record:
Petty woman – Gal I’d like to see
Petty woman – Hangin’ from a tree
Petty woman – I don’t believe you
You’re such a shrew
No one could be as shrill and cruel
Filthy …
“Filthy” should be “Nancy” …
Petty woman, wont you help us please
Petty woman, beat this C-19
Petty woman, you’re as heartless as can be
You’re even worse than Hillary
Geez … another one …
Petty woman, you’re so vile
Petty woman, full of guile
Petty woman, hope you get piles and fleas
Petty woman, yeah, yeah, yeah
Petty woman, loves to prey
Petty woman, stay away from me
Anyone wants to run with these vs are welcome to …
“Pretty”?!?
Oops, I saw an ‘r’ in there that wasn’t actually there.
That happens all the time here. 😉
I just left a phone message for my Congresscritter, Joe Courtney, telling him not to vote for the speaker’s pork barrel, since a) we don’t need a bill with crap in it that has nothing to do with the current crisis and b) we don’t need another bill we have to pass to find out what’s in it.
Not that he’ll listen….
Unfortunately you’re 100% accurate. Neither Joe nor any other of our Commie-necticut (Party) representatives will act to counter any of this abomination. I’ve said for years I have no representation as my votes in this state are always worthless. Oh for the day I can flee to Red-er pastures…
Which is worse…. passing the Dem bill converting the USA to a socialist/communist country or spinning back up the economy NOW?
Two thumbs up. In maybe a week, we will know if Hydroxychloroquine plus Azithromycin has therapeutic value and if the slope of the disease curve has changed at the target 15 day point. If things are acceptable and I were Trump, I would go on national TV and say that adding a Christmas tree of garbage is not what you sent me to Washington for. This has got to stop. We will re-open the country, without a bill, except in limited areas and keep your social distance. If we work together we will get through this. But we will not survive a Democratic Party that only cares about power and not about you.
I should have mentioned that his in-district offices are currently closed.
Oh, but of course! Would you really expect anything less?? He’s probably letting his staff collect off the State’s dime too.
Nancy Pelosi just oozes with evil.
THANKS California for voting in Nancy Pee-lousy again and again to help screw over America continually!
good ON you mates!
let’s hope your homeless population become flu zombies so many more will fall!
ok, not really…. sorta not
Well, she’s just the face of her many handlers. And you can tell she’s been handled a bit too much over the years.
There is no way on earth that the woman is reelected, term after term, legitimately.
Same with odumbo’s re-elections in the Illinois state government.
Ain’t it amazing what ELECTION FRAUD can do?
Just ask Stalin, Mao, and Adolph…….
The next Trump press conference will have me – ME! – making popcorn.
What will AG Barr have to contribute?
wants be empresses pelosi fiddles while the United States burns
This is a feint.
The D’rats know perfectly well they won’t get any of this stuff. But in politics the freebies you promise but don’t actually have to give away later are the best ones.
Now they’ll be able to claim that they were going to give all sorts of free shit to all and sundry, and but for those Repub trogodytes, we’d already be in a new socialist government nirvana. (Of course that nirvana would never arrive, but we’d have to vote for it to find out what’s not actually in it.) The goal, obviously, is to get the ducks aligned for November; they know they can’t win on the strength of the candidate, so they have to run on promises, and overdue promises are more tangible than ones which are due in some uncertain future. They won’t fool any Repubs—not even the Amybody-But-Trump types—or real Independents, but they’re after Bernie Babies. BBs are easily conned (as their wild enthusiam for “democratic socialism” shows) but their votes are still needed; cluelessness doesn’t invalidate votes.
Very cynical, even by Democrat standards, and it hinges on the Party’s desire to rule the country, even if all they’ll win is a ruin.
Mitch needs to go to simple majority vote with those self-quarantining in Hazmat suits and present to vote.
That thing is dead before its feet even hit the floor. How very caring and responsible of the Democrats to try to hold the country hostage with their tone-deaf and pathetic quest for more power.
IF the Dems are willing to play these kinds of games with the Corona relief bill, should we take that to mean the Dems don’t consider it as serious a health crisis as they make it out to be elsewhere?
Spot on!
If this wasn’t total FAKE all those old geezer DEMS would have dropped dead last month.
Really, most are close to pushing into their 9th decade on this planet…………
Democrats are enemies domestic. Engage accordingly.
This witch will burn in Hell someday.
FYI
NYT Editorial Board Spreads Egregious Lie
About Virus Relief Bill Fight
‘This is actually insane’: New York Times editorial board’s spin on Dems undermining COVID19 relief bill is ‘an absolute lie’
Now’s not the time to play politics. Which means, of course, that Democrats are playing politics.
Nancy Pelosi piloted the submarine that torpedoed the bipartisan COVID19 relief bill. And the New York Times editorial board is on it.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/03/23/this-is-actually-insane-new-york-times-editorial-boards-spin-on-dems-undermining-covid19-relief-bill-is-an-absolute-lie/
The Democrats are doing this for the simple reason it will work…GOP will cave and media will cover for them. They dont give a damn about americans and most are gleefully hoofing the country goes up in flames.
Side note…the Dems put nationwide ballot harvesting in the bill. Not seeing much discussion of that. Even shady 3rd world countries refuse to do that practice as it’s designed to allow fraud.
When Aunt Clara lost her magic powers she found a new way to make things appear.