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McConnell Sets Vote for Just After Market Open
March 22, 2020 at 11:10 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 185 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2020/03/22/mcconnell-sets-vote-for-just-after-market-open/
"SNIP....
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will try again on Monday to advance a mammoth coronavirus stimulus package, setting the vote for shortly after the markets open, The Hill reports.
Said McConnell: Heres the way ahead, colleagues. Were going to vote at 9:45 in the morning, the same vote we had at 6 p.m. tonight. Were going to vote at 9:45 in the morning, 15 minutes after the markets open, and see whether theres a change of heart.
His decision comes after the GOP stimulus package garnered 47 votes on Sunday, falling shortof the three-fifths needed to advance.
......SNIP"
Hugin
(32,784 posts)COVID-19 Pandemic than in putting the stimulus package cart ahead of the horse. Let's get through the crisis first and then do the rebuilding.
OTOH, the Republicans are clearly displaying that their #1 priority is kissing Il Dunce's big orange ass.
Why? Why are they so beholding to such an obviously worthless sack of crap? I really couldn't tell you.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Like the saying goes, the love of money is the root of all evil.
Its been playing out right before our eyes since Trump was elected.
brush
(53,475 posts)applegrove
(118,024 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 23, 2020, 04:22 PM - Edit history (1)
They are hoping for a tipping point where the middle class is cleaved and the rich liberals vote republican because they are so afraid of the bleak prospects the 'dirty' poor face. When there is no middle class there is a precipice at the end of being rich. So the rich put up with corruption and sell their souls and all vote republican lest they have to contribute the millions they will have to to make things right again after the Trump transfer-corruption has eaten up all the seed corn. With one third of the country never voting that gives republicans a suoermajority to continue to steal from the poor. And cleave. And corrupt. And those who find themselves 'middle class' are not getting much so they steal from the poor. And then the USA is India. And the ladders are all pulled up.
Hugin
(32,784 posts)Seriously, what is going on now is like if during the Second World War FDR had responded to the bombing of Pearl Harbor by passing the Marshall Plan.
Not only that, it's a waste of resources.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)expressed in the most succinct and clear way Ive encountered. You must have pulled this straight out of your higher intuitive mental abilities!
applegrove
(118,024 posts)you would have higher intuitive abilities. Sometimes you can't see through the bullshit if you are in it. Being an outsider helps.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Sometimes the bull crap actually drives you to it!
applegrove
(118,024 posts)are getting acknowledgement. My favourite is Heather Cox Richardson right now. Love her nightly recap of the day. She's an American historian and i am like 'where you been all my life?'.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Id love to get a historians views.
applegrove
(118,024 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)I subscribed.
napi21
(45,806 posts)voters still like DT and he's shown how he can destroy an enemy with nothing but his words. If he told his voters not tovote for a particular Senator & supported a different candidate, the voters would listen.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)budkin
(6,691 posts)Turtle has ZERO leverage this time, and Karma is a MFer.
KPN
(15,587 posts)elias7
(3,976 posts)Everything Trump has done has been to try to keep the stock market up.
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)And, Oligarchs are a persistent lot, when they think they smell money for the taking. (Think school of sharks with blood in the water.)
greyl
(22,990 posts)applegrove
(118,024 posts)in the US to manipulate things? Market has a good chance of falling tomorrow. Mitch is now going to blame it on Democrats for not voting for corruption. Then Mitch will play act some more and try and make it a meme.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,041 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)obvious hes twisting the truth until he can choke it to death. He takes what he and his party do and weaves it into a tale and presents it in a deceiving image and says thats what the Democratic Party is doing. Hes a conjurer creating the black magic of delusion and telling us it is the pure light of truth.
JCMach1
(27,544 posts)PSPS
(13,516 posts)Hugin
(32,784 posts)1) Old Yeller opened his foul mouth and turned it to crap. (It's what he does.)
and
2) It takes a whole lot more money than they can muster to move the market needle following a two week loss of over $15 Trillion ( with a "T" ) in value.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)The sooner, the better.
And I hope there is such a thing as hell, because he will burn in it for eternity.