Quote (IceMage @ Mar 23 2020 04:15pm)

Nice.

Quote (chemoshots @ Mar 23 2020 04:43pm)

sorry
the 'pwn the libs' party
and majority leader, geriatric diablo, lord of obstruction
can suck eggs if they want to cry about bipartisan obstruction
crisis or not

Quote (Skinned @ 23 Mar 2020 20:59)

Dems know the GOP isn't going to approved a bail out that loads up union shops and outfits or provide too direct benefits to American families in peril like just cutting checks.

They know what they need to do to secure the safety net and they're not doing it.

You can only trust these fuckers to solve problems in line with the interest of the capitalist class.

Quote (Helloween7 @ 23 Mar 2020 21:06)

It's funny because Trump could literally get re-elected by tackling the problem both with corporate bailouts/fed doing their things andhelping the plebs by giving them cash money but Republicans would never approve helping the poor and lower end of middle class.

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The proposal, expected to cost around $1 trillion, calls for direct payments on a tiered scale. Individuals making $75,000 based on a 2018 tax return would be eligible for $1,200 payments, or $2,400 for couples filing jointly. The payments would decrease for those making more than $75,000, with an income cap of $99,000 per individual or $198,000 for couples. The payments would also increase $500 for each child a person or couple has. However, taxpayers with little or no income tax liability but at least $2,500 of qualifying income would be eligible for only $600 or $1,200 for couples.

Quote (Goomshill @ 23 Mar 2020 15:39)

IceMage, you're free to come out of denial any time you want
https://www.dailywire.com/news/shock-dem-stock-coronavirus-package-with-green-new-deal-handouts-post-office-bailout-union-cash

Nancy Pelosi just revealed some of the text of her house bill.
Here are some of the wonderful provisions of her "cononavirus relief package" that was totally not designed to be a poison pill that's completely unpassable and serve no purpose but partisan obstructionism:

• Strengthens bargaining powers for unions
  
• Increases fuel emissions standards
  
• Expansion of solar and wind tax credits
  
• Bails out the US post office
  
• Bails out student loans
  
• Conducts "risk-limiting audits of results of elections"
  
• Mandates national same-day voter registration
  
• Mandates 15 days early voting and mail-out ballots to all Americans
  
• Mandates pay equity that says gender, racial and ethnic minorities must receive the same pay at companies regardless of whether they perform the same work
  
• Mandates that corporate boards must have forced diversity quotas for gender, race and ethnic identities on both the board and leadership and subcommittees
  
• Expands child care and earned income tax credits that won't apply for a year

I've only had time to glance at the surface of the bill, it just came out. The compromise that senate republicans and democrats had struck was a bill narrowly crafted to apply to the immediate crisis at hand, a stimulus package of immediate relief now for Americans, small businesses, governments, the CDC and failing corporations. Pelosi's counterproposal isn't just an ideological wishlist, its a list of completely fucking unrelated bullshit that doesn't have any impact until 6-12 months from now. I'm pretty sure she unironically tucked anti-Hyde Amendment language in there somewhere just for spite.

You told us that Democrats are the only party left that governs and that they wouldn't hold up government function.

Quote (Skinned @ 23 Mar 2020 21:44)

Yeah I'm hating the give republicans what they want or you're failing the American people narrative that some of these a******'s trying to push.