Sen Schatz: "Call their offices, tell them to get their shit together and do it"

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Brian Schatz ✔@brianschatz

Republicans are refusing to pass a bill that has
- free coronavirus testing
- paid emergency medical leave
- extended unemployment insurance
- food assistance
- help for health care workers. Call their offices, tell them to get their shit together and do it. Thanks.

9:51 AM - Mar 12, 2020

[wildflower]

1. I don't understand

Why are they refusing?

[Dennis Donovan]

4. It probably has language that pisses off Trump in some way

...so Dear leader told them to put the kibosh on it.

[riversedge]

26. A saw a memo that Trump said--the Dem bill did not go far enough. but no specifics.

[CrispyQ]

9. Because it helps the unwashed masses more than the billionaire class.

The GOP wants the help in the form of tax breaks to defund the government. Then they can go after SS/Medicare. It's always socialism when taxes go to help We the People, but it's just good business when taxes go to industry or the already wealthy.

[pazzyanne]

13. Bingo!

We have a winner!

[not fooled]

10. They have been telling people for decades

that "government is the problem, not the solution," starting in earnest with raygun. They have been selling "small government" and doing everything they can to destroy the Federal government. They don't want people to see that government can help people, or that it is really the only entity that could tackle a problem of this scope.

[link:https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a31402409/trump-coronavirus-response-ronald-reagan/|]

Spend four decades building the case that the federal government is a hindrance to personal freedom and economic prosperity and, sooner or later, people will think anybody can run it and will elect themselves an entertaining moron to do so. Spend four decades building the case that the federal government can’t do anything right and, sooner or later, it will forget how.

[CrispyQ]

17. That's an excellent commentary. -nt

[aggiesal]

16. Because their ...

Greedy One Percent (GOP) constituents don't want it and are ordering them to vote it down.
Their bribe, I mean donation, has to pay for something.

They don't give a $hit about the other 99%.

[Midnight Writer]

21. Because they want tax cuts instead.

[jmowreader]

22. A GOP bill will be 100-percent tax cuts

To a Republican, tax cuts can fix anything.

[tblue37]

25. Mitch is calling it a Democratic ideological wish list, and Republicans want to add

antiabortion amendments.

[MerryBlooms]

2. republicans are such heinous creatures.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. More ammo for Democrats in November.......Republicans are HEARTLESS......

Just wait until they or members of their staffs come down with this virus. The economic hardships we are set to go through with will be tough.

I am ready to suffer so to speak. Not from the virus, but from changes in my economic outlook. I will be okay, but I worry for my children in their jobs and careers.

[Perseus]

12. Ted Cruz & idiot Gaetz are in quarantine...

I guess the rest of the GOP doesn't really care much for those two anyway.

[Chili Pepper]

18. And that's part of the problem ...

I'm sure those two didn't personally pay for their testing. I'm sure those two are still getting paid full salary while they're in quarantine. We know they don't have to worry about paid medical leave or extended unemployment insurance.

Therefore, using their twisted logic, there's no need to provide those to anyone else.

[crickets]

5. Congressional phone numbers

House Directory of Representatives
https://www.house.gov/representatives

Senate Directory
https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact

[djacq]

6. Couldn't resist;

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[packman]

8. Luv that show

[SunSeeker]

7. K & R & Retweeted!

[Perseus]

11. Makes one wonder

Republicans, republicans...damn republicans! Makes one wonder why they seem to always go against what is good for the country, what is it they are after, what are their gains? It can't just be simply unadulterated evil, can it?

[pazzyanne]

15. "... what is it they are after, what are their gains?"

In just one word, "MONEY".

[world wide wally]

24. Better question:

Why do fucking people vote for them?

[CrispyQ]

14. I wrote and called Cory Gardner for all the good it will do. -nt

[generalbetrayus]

23. I've e-mailed Cory with every on-line petition and letter imaginable

ever since Donald plopped his fat ass in the White House, but I never read the replies because I know what the answer will be. Fortunately, for the long term, and unfortunately for the short term, he knows he is highly unpopular in Colorado, and I think that's why he's so tightly glued to Donald's fat ass, hoping he'll at least get some favors from Donald if he (Drumpf) is re-elected.

[Omaha Steve]

19. I called BOTH of my R Senators

Won't do any good, but....

[LaMouffette]

20. Everyone, do please call your senators!

I just called mine, even though it always feels like an exercise in futility when I call our state's Republican senator. He is so far up Rump's rump, he can see Dear Leader's dentures.

But if enough of us call, the Republican senators might feel a tiny scintilla of fear for their own reelection and vote to pass the bill being put forward by Nancy and the rest of the House Dems.

It's just SO galling that Trump is seizing on this moment to slip in another tax cut for the wealthy and a payroll tax rate cut. The payroll cut would essentially destroy Social Security and Medicare, while doing next to nothing to help low-income workers, according to this LA Times article:

[link:https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-03-10/trump-payroll-tax-cut-lousy-idea|

[crickets]

27. Perdue's office is not answering the phone *eyeroll*

and Loeffler's intern said "well, I'll pass that along" so... Calling in numbers will at least get their attention, especially if they are up for reelection this year. Make your voice heard! Call.

https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact

[Hermit-The-Prog]

28. Wear out the phone lines of medieval Moscow Mitch. He's the main roadblock.

[crickets]

29. +1