Biden dropping ball on COVID relief - no checks, but bombs in Syria?

[dukkha]

Well, if the $2.5T Russia Tax Cut and 5 years of QE didn't have any effect on inflation, $2K checks most definitely won't either.

We're so far from inflation being a concern right now...what we should be worried about is DEflation.

Not just checks..we have been pumping quite a bit of money already before this monstrosity coming up

[LV426]

agree. partisan morons -all of them -but at least the Dems understand power politics. Repubs are pathetic

I do not think the Democrats understand it at all, hence my OP.

[LV426]

Not just checks..we have been pumping quite a bit of money already before this monstrosity coming up

I wouldn't call this a monstrosity...I would call it woefully inadequate.

We need a recovery bill that is probably 3x-4x the size of this one, that includes recurring and retroactive checks.

I don't think any party truly understands the magnitude by which COVID wrecked our economy and changed how our economy will operate moving forward.

My big thing has always been that consumers will not go out and spend money if they do not feel safe.

So until the time comes that COVID is not a threat because of mass vaccinations, the economy is going to struggle because nothing has been done to stimulate it to the degree we need it to be stimulated.

Most of the country isn't in lockdown now, but we are still mired in a recession because people do not feel safe.

Telling people for 12 months that COVID was a hoax, as we lost 4,000 people a day, didn't make anyone feel any safer.

I would love nothing more than to be able to go out to eat at a restaurant, but it's just not safe to do that right now while I'm still not vaccinated.

[Bourbon]

As I said during the campaign, I would hit Biden if he didn't do what he promised.

Well, here we are...a month into his administration and still no:

-->$2K checks
-->$15/hr MW
-->Student Debt Relief

But hey, he dropped a few bombs in Syria, so....

US launches airstrike, bombs Syrian facilities used by Iran-backed militia
https://www.business-standard.com/ar...2600121_1.html

Joe doesn't have a Bill to Sign yet, I don't think they even had a Vote

[LV426]

Joe doesn't have a Bill to Sighn yet, I don't think they even had a Vote

Right...but my issue is that this is something needed immediately, and that urgency was expressed two months ago...but now I don't see that same sense of urgency today.

In fact, it feels like the Democrats are running out the clock, and that this is going to be the only COVID relief bill between now and November 2022.

If that's the case, they can kiss their majorities goodbye. The Democrats are not going to have the courage or will to push for things like a new Voting Rights Act.

I am truly worried that the only major legislation they will pass will be this tiny COVID bill, and that most voters will forget about it by November 2022.

[Nordberg]

Do you think Mitch McConnell would give a shit what the Parliamentarian thinks if he had a legislative priority/promise?

I want Biden to go scorched earth on these motherfuckers. Instead, we're getting Obama 2.0 and the GQP is being let off the hook yet again by Democrats unwilling to flex their political power.

I knew this would happen and it's precisely what I warned about a year ago.

Mitch was not the president. However, when Trump was rejected by a parliamentarian he fired her. The Dem presidents did not break laws and protocols like a spoiled children

[LV426]

Mitch was not the president. However, when Trump was rejected by a parliamentarian he fired her. The Dem presidents did not break laws and protocols like a spoiled children

Maybe they should start? And maybe the protocols are bullshit?

I think Schumer is completely feckless...McConnell plays him like a fiddle.

[Cinnabar]

Right...but my issue is that this is something needed immediately, and that urgency was expressed two months ago...but now I don't see that same sense of urgency today.

In fact, it feels like the Democrats are running out the clock, and that this is going to be the only COVID relief bill between now and November 2022.

If that's the case, they can kiss their majorities goodbye. The Democrats are not going to have the courage or will to push for things like a new Voting Rights Act.

I am truly worried that the only major legislation they will pass will be this tiny COVID bill, and that most voters will forget about it by November 2022.

If Biden and the Dems don't deliver what they promised and what the majority want in the way of policy, they are knowingly and willingly handing our government over to the Fascists and that is the bottom line.

[moon]

Big Monkey Dollop

Nazi fuck stain.

Prosemitic liar.

[Stone]

Used....fucked over....and cast aside like a dirty diaper after it was shit on. Get used to it lefties,.... in the end you get exactly what you have coming.

[Nordberg]

Do you think Mitch McConnell would give a shit what the Parliamentarian thinks if he had a legislative priority/promise?

I want Biden to go scorched earth on these motherfuckers. Instead, we're getting Obama 2.0 and the GQP is being let off the hook yet again by Democrats unwilling to flex their political power.

I knew this would happen and it's precisely what I warned about a year ago.

Trump and Moscow Mitch did not respect laws. They are not starting now. The Dems have to do what is right. The reds are not under such constraints. It is called winning. Biden promised 1400 and it was passed in the house last night. Now it has to get through the Senate.
Trump actually fired a parliamentarian who ruled against what he wanted. So you have no problems with Trumpism continuing?

[Legion]

Used....fucked over....and cast aside like a dirty diaper after it was shit on. Get used to it lefties,.... in the end you get exactly what you have coming.

Indeed.

[Legion]

Trump Trump Trumpism

Trump has nothing to do with Biden's bungling, Nerdberg.

[Legion]

If Biden and the Dems don't deliver what they promised and what the majority want in the way of policy, they are knowingly and willingly handing our government over to the Fascists and that is the bottom line.

The DEMOCRAT Party is fascist.

I don't recall any other party working so hard to stifle political dissent in America.

[Legion]

$2K monthly checks are the best economics in all of this.

Who told you that?