COVID Economy

[GooooMarquette]

By back down, I mean he will just change his mind and say he got what he wanted.

Perhaps. But I think the winner will depend on how they view the Georgia Senate races. If the races are close and Trump really wants to push, he can threaten to use his influence to suppress the vote. and I do not put that past him.

[MU82]

From the AP article on Republicans in Congress rejecting Trump's out-of-nowhere demand for $2,000 per person checks:

Trump is ending his presidency much the way he started it – sowing confusion and reversing promises all while contesting the election and courting a federal shutdown over demands his own party in Congress will not meet.

The congressional Republican leaders have been left almost speechless by Trump’s year-end scorching of their work.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy helped negotiate the year-end deal, a prized bipartisan compromise, that won sweeping approval this week in the House and Senate after the White House assured GOP leaders that Trump supported it.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin boasted that the $600 checks all sides had agreed to for Americans would be in the mail in a week.

Instead, Washington is now hurling toward a crisis with COVID-19 aid about to collapse, as the president is at his Mar-a-Lago club. He has been lashing out at GOP leaders for refusing to join his efforts to overturn the election that Joe Biden won when the Electoral College votes are tallied in Congress on Jan. 6.

“The best way out of this is for the president to sign the bill,” Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri said Thursday. “And I still hope that’s what he decides.”

But hey, at least the lame duck is working extra hard to correct his duck hook.

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

Problem is that with the January 3 end of term, if he does nothing the bill is pocket vetoed and cannot be overturned.

[Jockey]

I wonder how the greens are in Florida today.

[MU82]

I wonder how the greens are in Florida today.

What's nice is that you, I and the rest of America's taxpayers are treating the Secret Service and the rest of the entourage to rooms, food and beverages at Mar-A-Lago at rack rates, with the profits going directly into the bank account of the president of the United States.

[GooooMarquette]

What's nice is that you, I and the rest of America's taxpayers are treating the Secret Service and the rest of the entourage to rooms, food and beverages at Mar-A-Lago at rack rates, with the profits going directly into the bank account of the president of the United States.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/245884-trump-i-would-rarely-leave-the-white-house

“I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done,” Trump, 69, tells ITK. "I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off.”

“You don’t have time to take time off,” Trump adds.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Trump is ending his presidency much the way he started it – sowing confusion and reversing promises all while contesting the election and courting a federal shutdown over demands his own party in Congress will not meet.

It's almost as if putting a narcissistic child in charge of the United States is a bad idea.

[GooooMarquette]

It's almost as if putting a narcissistic child in charge of the United States is a bad idea.

Who’d have guessed?

[MU82]

With the bill sitting unsigned on the lame duck's desk while he chases around his Pro-V1, unemployment benefits expired for millions of Americans yesterday. Also, funding stopped or will stop in days for food banks, rental assistance and other programs for the needy. Merry Effen Xmas!

As President-Elect Biden said: “This abdication of responsibility has devastating consequences.”

[MU82]

From the Washington Post:

Much of the spending allocations Trump criticized were the exact amounts he requested for those programs in his fiscal 2021 budget:

— $1.3 billion for Egypt and the Egyptian military? Trump’s budget asked for $1.3 billion.

— $134 million for Myanmar? Trump’s budget had sought $131,450,000.

— $40 million for the Kennedy Center? Trump’s budget asked for $40,400,000.[/b]

As if anybody thinks the mad king even knew what was in his own budget.

And it's not as if he didn't have weeks - months, really - to let Mnuchin and his other negotiators know exactly what he wanted in stimulus relief.

Saying that Mnuchin negotiated the package and Trump was updated by GOP leadership during the talks, Rep. Don Bacon, Republican from Nebraska, added:

“The COVID supplement is a good compromise and the president should take it. The foreign aid items were not part of the COVID bill but did reflect the budget request made by the president. The bill will help struggling small businesses, the unemployed, and those who can’t pay their rent or mortgage. It also will help America get to the place where vaccines are readily available.”

It's all an effen reality TV show, folks, all to feed his ego and his wallet. Just like these last 4 years have been. The only difference between reality and reality TV is that in reality, real people are dying and hurting.

[CreightonWarrior]

Reported that Trump signed the bill tonight.

[jesmu84]

Reported that Trump signed the bill tonight.

Good. Don't fight for more for those who need it the most.

[Jockey]

States cannot pay out benefits for weeks that begin before the bill is signed. Since Trump delayed signing the bill, benefits will not restart until the first week of January. But the benefits will still end in mid-March, effectively trimming the extension to 10 weeks from 11.


In other words, they will all lose one week of benefits. As I have said here (over and over), cruelty IS the point.

[MU82]

Just “Look at me!” bluster to distract from the immoral pardons of his criminal associates.

Called the bill a “disgrace” and then signed it anyway. Coward.

[#UnleashSean]

What a wild ride.


Now who would you pick to be coach of Marquette. Trump or wojo?

[SERocks]

Now who would you pick to be coach of Marquette. Trump or wojo?

Trump.  We would be unbeaten every year then. 

[GooooMarquette]

Trump.  We would be unbeaten every year then.

Yeah, but we'd be tired of winning.

[MU82]

What a wild ride.


Now who would you pick to be coach of Marquette. Trump or wojo?

The first guy isn't available. He's coaching Trump U to its 23rd straight national title.

[tower912]

And even when Marquette lost, he would appeal 50 different ways to the NCAA with the end result being.... A Marquette loss.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Trump.  We would be unbeaten every year then.

We'd also be winless.

[Jockey]

And even when Marquette lost, he would appeal 50 different ways to the NCAA with the end result being.... A Marquette loss.

Except we’d have zero players left on the team after they were blamed for every loss despite the greatest most outstanding game plans in the history of basketball.

[forgetful]

With McConnell blocking a vote on $2000 stimulus checks, after sufficient votes to pass it in the Senate, it should be clear to everyone who is blocking economic support.

McConnell and his cronies are doing everything they can to block any support for the average American.

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

With McConnell blocking a vote on $2000 stimulus checks, after sufficient votes to pass it in the Senate, it should be clear to everyone who is blocking economic support.

McConnell and his cronies are doing everything they can to block any support for the average American.

It was all orchestrated.

[tower912]

Rotten Submitch.

[MU82]

It was all orchestrated.

This. So obviously, brazenly political, right down to the suddenly enthusiastic support of the extra stimulus from Georgia's GOP senators.