No more important context for the negotiations on Capitol Hill than this story. Take a few minutes to read it. washingtonpost.com/local/coronavi…
Reading it will make you even more infuriated to hear Republican politicians push the false (according to multiple studies) talking point that an extra $600 per week is somehow preventing people from going back to jobs that don’t actually exist.
This is also what happens when government assistance programs are designed with the goal of making them harder to use because conservatives (and too many Democrats) have spent decades warning about fraud and abuse.
These outcomes aren’t inevitable. They don’t happen nearly as often in European countries. We choose this.
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How unbelievably out of touch do you have to be to whine like this?
Millions of people are sick and struggling. Biden presented a plan to deal with it and reached out to Republicans. They’ve responded with process gripes and hurt feelings.
Do they think we should accept hundreds of thousands of state and local layoffs? Is it child care assistance that offends them? Paid leave that pisses them off?
Tell us!
And why do they keep dismissing a $15 living wage as some left wing priority when a significant majority of the country wants it - including Republican voters?
I can’t tell who hates this Farewell Address more, me or Trump.
Four years and Stephen Miller never once tried to capture the voice of the person he was writing for. It’s always like Trump is reading somebody else’s speech on the prompter for the first time.
A 20-minute speech that’s direct-to-camera with no audience is a crime.
The Articles of Impeachment should begin before Trump’s rally:
1) The President said the election he lost was fraudulent and rigged. Not a single Democratic or Republican election official agreed. Not a single liberal or conservative judge agreed.
2) Trump then pressured multiple Republican officials to break the law, violate their oath of office, and overturn the election - election officials, state legislators, Members of Congress, and his own Vice President.
3) When not enough Republicans went along with Trump’s scheme, he summoned his supporters to Washington, and told an armed mob to march to the Capitol in order to disrupt the lawful certification of the election.
And again, if for some reason the courts fail here, and the MI legislature decides to send Trump electors, the law says that the executive’s (Whitmer’s) slate of electors should be recognized by Congress (where a majority in both houses now recognize Biden’s win).
Republicans in Michigan may try their best to disenfranchise every voter in their state, D or R, but they cannot and will not change the results of the election.
What the Michigan and national Republican Parties are asking for here is against Michigan law. An audit cannot be conducted until the election is certified.
This matters because if Trump and Republicans somehow succeed in pressuring the two Republican members of the state board to refuse certification, the courts will have the next say.