Republicans: why our government barely works

The new coronavirus relief bill is slowly making its way through the Senate. An entire day was wasted when Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican who has been a point man for his party's conspiracy theories, forced Senate clerks to read the entire 628-page bill aloud. This took until 2 am.

There were only two possible reasons for Johnson to have done this:

1. Republicans wanted to make a stupid and meaningless delaying gesture.

2. Republicans can't read and needed to have the bill read aloud to them so they could understand it.

People vote for Republicans and then wonder why nothing ever gets done. Party before country, that's their only guiding principle.*

*That, and, "Stop people who aren't white from voting."

Except it is not about virus relief.

It includes $1,400 WEEKLY checks to federal employees, hundreds of millions to museums, bridges & various pet projects for democrats.  Hundreds of billions for underfunded state pensions,  hundreds of billions for schools that won't be spent for years (the schools haven't spent the money from previous bills).  Instead of unemployment extensions, perhaps the democratic states should start opening their businesess & schools.

If the democrats were serious about covid relief, they would have only included covid related relief, which would have reduced the cost by half.

Tom, let's not allow the facts confuse a great Liberal story.  Next thing that you know, Kevin will tell us that all of the Covid vaccine success was due to Biden.

I don't need to tell you that, because it's an obvious truth, but deep in the throes of your Trump-love, you will deny it.

So, Tom, please explain why the Republicans introduced a day-long delay for something that was utterly pointless and had no influence on the outcome?

That cost a day's worth of salaries for everyone involved in the process. Since we're talking about hundreds of people (not just the senators), the cost was in the tens of thousands of dollars. What happened to "the party of fiscal prudence," Tom? They just pissed away a day's worth of salaries and time for a stupid, meaningless, futile political gesture.

You are probably not capable of realizing that what was or wasn't in the bill never mattered to Republicans. It was all about opposing Biden, just like--as Moscow Mitch explicitly said at the time--in 2009-2016, it was all about opposing Obama.

Poor old DonDiego was aware of the $1400 one-time payment to all citizens below certain income limits.

But the $1400-per-week payout to Federal employees is news to poor old DonDiego.

The checks are limited:

 . . .  a federal employee, . . . can receive $1,400 a week in paid time off for 15 weeks if [he/she] decides to stay at home and virtually school [his/her] child.

As first reported by Forbes, the carve-out is included in the bill’s $570 million “Emergency Federal Employee Leave fund,” which is exclusively reserved for federal employees.

Ref: Stimulus Checks for Federal Employees

Kevin deflects by talking about wasting a day but is unable to defend the democrats wasting a trillion. 

Which of the 2 is a bigger waste?

My post was specifically about Republicans wasting a day--and pissing away taxpayer money--for a meaningless gesture. I wasn't discussing the specifics of the bill.

But if you want to discuss fiscal prudence, I'm sure you'll be happy to talk about the Trump tax cuts for big corporations and billionaires, since those cuts cost almost exactly as much money as the current Covid relief bill will.

And Tommie-poo...just because you demand that we discuss something doesn't mean I or anyone else has to pay attention to you. You can lie and say that I'm "unable" to talk about whatever you happen to be babbling. The truth, however, is that I don't talk with babblers.

1. It's approximately one four-thousandth, or 0.0025%, of the relief package.

2. It's an opportunity to address concerns parents may have about the dangers of live classroom instruction.

3. Republican parents, showing complete fealty to the Republican mantra of "fiscal prudence," won't apply for the money.

So DonDiego has nothing to worry about.

Our resident Republicans can't come up with a viable excuse for their heroes pissing away time and money rather than doing their jobs, so they've been trying to change the subject.

The Republican party is the party of doing nothing.