Politico Magazine: Pelosi has Trump over a barrel (I say it's time she acts like it)

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Time to act like it also!

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/17/nancy-pelosi-trump-stimulus-132388

No, the easy way to tell Pelosi negotiated a bad deal for Democrats is that she negotiated a deal at all—rather than dictating the terms and telling President Donald Trump to take them or leave them

The lesson of the last congressional response to an economic emergency, President Barack Obama’s 2009 stimulus bill, is that when a president desperately needs legislation to address a crisis, anyone with the power to stop him can decide what’s in it.

When Obama took office, in the midst of the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression, Democrats controlled the House and Senate as well. But they needed 60 votes to break a Republican filibuster in the Senate, and there were only 57 Democratic senators, which meant Obama had to recruit three Republicans to vote for a stimulus bill.

If the president was unwilling to approve measures to help contain a pandemic and limit the economic fallout because he didn’t want sick workers to be guaranteed paid leave, he could have explained that to the public. He’s the president, the head of state, the “I alone can fix it” guy. He’s the one who will be judged by the outcome of the crisis that he initially insisted was not a crisis, then declared was under control thanks to his leadership.

Also:

“Democrats preferred to have something rather than nothing,” a Democratic source explained to CNN’s Jake Tapper. “That was the choice we faced.”
That was not the choice Democrats faced. Unlike the Republicans in 2009, who only had a filibuster-proof minority in the Senate, they also have a majority in the House, where they could have attached anything they wanted to the must-pass coronavirus testing and dared Republicans to say no.

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1. I heard this and don't know what to think. Sumbuddy say something...eom

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2. Let me just add an old adage

When your enemy is grasping for a foothold, drop an anvil on him instead.

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3. I do love our Dems. But--I pray they're not reverting back to some previous ways of

handling the obscene re-thugs.

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4. I read that when House aides went home Friday paid sick leave for everyone was in the bill

When they returned Monday there was a huge carveout for corporations with more than five hundred employees who are exempted from paying sick leave to employees with the virus. This means sixty million Americans won't get any paid sick leave if they fall ill.

The bill still contains block money for unemployment, Medicaid and Food Assistance that will go to the States. I guess the taxpayer will be the only ones that have to foot the bill. Small businesses will be forced to provide paid sick leave with no assistance or relief while large corporations will not have to pay and are slashing jobs right now faster than you can say Bob & Bob.

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5. What do We get out of this?

Nuthin. Nothing will come of this. What good does it do us if big business is exempt from paying or providing? I guess that way they can say they did something without actually doing anything.

While they squabble, we fall further behind. I didn't think it was possible for the evil ones among us to get even more evil, but I guess I was wrong.