Nothing is sweeter or more fitting than looking on people convinced of their utter seriousness and seeing supreme, laughable irony. Congressional Democrats give us this gift daily.
In throes of another COVID spike, Nancy Pelosi – having stopped major relief for individuals and small businesses last summer – suddenly decided she can now manage to help Americans without freezers of ice cream and hair stylists.
Election over, Pelosi and her high-rolling, lip-smacking Democrat colleagues, have consented to help small businesses that are still breathing, stay afloat a bit longer.
Thanks to Pelosi’s hard-bitten pre-election hubris, hundreds of thousands of small American businesses have gone under in the past six months – businesses into which people had poured their lives, savings, hopes and dreams. Some estimates put the number in the millions. See, e.g., https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/14/7point5-million-small-businesses-are-at-risk-of-closing-report-finds.html; https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-11/small-firms-die-quietly-leaving-thousands-of-failures-uncounted; https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/12/small-business-used-define-americas-economy-pandemic-could-end-that-forever/; https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/business/economy/small-businesses-coronavirus.html.
More than 4 million who rose on Trump’s economy are now unemployed – and no longer looking for work. More than 12 million Americans eager to work have been tossed onto unemployment, since their employers did not get a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) extension. And even those unemployment benefits are ending.
Thank you, Nancy Pelosi. Now, in today’s irony, a subgroup of House members – who are ALL elected to solve problems and help constituents in rough times – has dubbed themselves – can you believe it? – the “problem solving caucus.”
Brilliant. Why did America not think of this earlier? A “problem solving caucus,” and, say, just in time. Thanks to this world-changing development, problems that were somehow insoluble before the election, are now suddenly to be solved.
Says Pelosi, “We have momentum” drafting a COVID relief bill, which was vigorously opposed by Democrats for being not big enough before the election, but now is half the size of Trump’s proposed pre-election bill.
Said one “Problem Solvers Caucus” member, “We are in the middle of drafting as we speak, and so … Monday is kind of a goal.” Caucus members, and the esteemed Speaker, assure us the bill is happening, “so money is allocated to those most in need.”
Such self-congratulatory tomfoolery, taking American voters for idiots, is why more than 90 percent of Americans hold Congress in contempt. Call it irony on irony: Those elected to solve problems produce a little group that calls itself the “problem solving caucus,” which delays aid that would have saved millions of jobs, and then congratulates itself for selflessness. Really?
So, where is that COVID bill, and what is in it? In short, the long-lost bill, better late than never but too late for millions, will emerge this week with “a range of emergency programs,” including extension of PPP and unemployment insurance,
The $908 billion dollar bill will end up attached to the long overdue appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2021, which are being wrapped into a yearend “omnibus spending bill,” that will land on President Trump’s desk before Christmas.
Even then, as the economy wobbles under new uncertainties, the “Problem Solving Caucus” decided NOT to issue any new lifesaving “stimulus” checks. The irony is too rich to go unnoticed. That caucus’s Democrat co-chairman is New Jersey’s richest lawmaker, Josh Gottheimer, D-5th Dist. See, e.g., https://www.nj.com/politics/2020/11/here-are-njs-richest-and-poorest-members-of-congress.html.
Worse, Gottheimer received more than $308,000 in campaign contributions from private equity interests, then in May 2020 advocated the Federal Reserve bailout private equity firms. So, claiming to support the little guy, a leading Democrat scraps checks for those barely making it, while pushing big bucks for private equity firms. Does it surprise you? See, e.g., https://readsludge.com/2020/05/06/gottheimer-backs-bailout-plan-pushed-by-his-private-equity-donors/.
In the olden days, whenever they were, members of Congress had a touch of shame – a sense of quiet awareness at public rebuke for obvious hypocrisy – but no more. Now, we can block aid for Americans in crisis – from debilitating government lockdowns, while eating endless ice cream, getting hairdos, claiming sainthood, and blaming Republicans for heartlessness.
See what I mean about irony? We live in times that begin to look more ironic by the day, even as we lose our sense of humor, our ability to laugh at the inability of our political leaders to laugh.
Okay, assuming no further tricks in Pelosi’s hat, this relief bill should also include a compromise between Democrats pushing high-level State and local bailout money (for State and municipal pension funds, guilty of overspending), and common sense liability waivers for businesses trying to reopen – for survival.
Even so, Democrats want to add other goodies (i.e. billions for Amtrak, Postal Service, federal food aid, federalized assistance to schools, et al). Senate Republicans may be hard-pressed to block those adds. And then, just to make things interesting, President Trump has asked that this bill be “targeted” relief – tied to coronavirus impact – not a wild-eyed spending spree, adding more debt. See, e.g., https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-covid-19-relief-talks-gain-momentum-as-lawmakers-set-monday-deadline-idUSKBN28E2GZ.
When all is said and done, the ironies will be forgotten – of course – and the bill will be big, everyone claiming credit for having done it, blaming others for what is not in the bill, leaving Americans wondering who is really in charge – the government or the People.
Just when you want to cry, stop – and laugh. Nothing is sweeter or more fitting than looking on people convinced of their utter seriousness and seeing supreme, laughable irony. Then, because we are the People, we are the America that knows the difference between irony and idiocy on one hand, truth and transparency on the other, take a deep breath – and look toward 2022. What else can we do?
My comment from another similar article last week is just as applicable here:
…and Nancy Pelosi is enjoying her premium ice cream in her gated mansion. All while hundreds of thousands of small businesses die off under lockdowns due to her adamant refusal to allow a PPP bill to go to the Senate that DOESN’T include the myriad of worthless garbage she insists on. Instead she spends the last days of the lame duck session voting on legalizing drugs to keep the electorate in a drug induced stupor. Way to truly show what her priorities are. Truly the Grinch that stole Christmas for millions of small business owners and their employees. Boy are the bankruptcy courts going to be busy next year. All that’s missing is Nancy Pelosi holding a video zoom press conference to say “Let them eat cake” as she sips some wine from her family’s vineyard.
As for the so-called Problem Solvers Caucus, do you remember the Gang of 8 that were around during the Obama era? Well it’s the exact same principle under a different name, with slightly different characters involved. A group of RINOs (either Never Trumpers or just Democrats with a (R) after their name) and faux “Democrat moderates” (who all vote in lock-step with Pelosi over 90 percent of the time) pretending to be some moderate voice of reason. In actuality, they are offering up essentially 90 percent of the same Democrat policy proposals, but just with a slightly different spin. Kabuki theater for the ignorant portion of the public still clamoring for :bi-partisanship” between the forces of reason and those preaching socialism to obtain unfettered power. Yes, it would be laughable, if it weren’t so deadly serious and sad for our country.
Let the holiday festivities begin…as more and more signs go up on businesses around the country stating “CLOSE. GOING OUT OF BUSINESS”
Well one of these days and I would say it’s going to be soon they’re going to have to answer for their b******* to the American people cuz we’ve had just about enough of this b******* from these communist Democrats. There are way too many of us well trained ex-military that have no problem taking them on and their little p**** BLM and antifa don’t stand a chance.
it will pass with biden in charge It will have all the bailouts in it as well Monet printer go BRRRR…
Anyone sen the dollar FX lately.
Loks pretty bad Probably going to break 90 soon and under that is a cliff
Problem Solvers Create Problems vs solve them & NO action on relief for many
Scam
Biden is GIGO Admin & SOC: Same OL Crap, NC: No Change.
IE retain Fauci on staff despite Dr Lockdowns wild swings day 1 on Task Force
Were being played & think were Stupid.
The Democrats have always been anxious to pat themselves on the back for work the Republicans have fought to obtain. They have absolutely no honor nor remorse when they cause millions to lose faith in government. It’s as if they had that in mind all along.
UNBELIEVALBLE!!!????
Pelosi, you are really a B@T@H!!!!
Mr Charles, I find NOTHING to laugh at here.
It was reported on Fox that hundreds of millions of dollars have been scammed by prison inmates claiming Unemployment Benefits. No one bothers to Vet these claims! To take away their computers and internet access would be “cruel and unusual punishment”! Since The DemonRat Party has all their naive constituents “drones” convinced that President Trump is responsible for Covid, all the deaths and business closures it is that much easier to bring about Socialism! After Inauguration Day they will convince everyone they are the party that will save America while they sabotage it!
So long as Nancy can have her hair coiffed at the proper time, along with her botox injections all is right with the world.
Sorry Nancy, but the injections aren’t doing a d–n thing.
This would all be laughable but for the many, many small business owners watching their dreams and hopes for the future come crashing down.
The emotional and the psychological fallout will be with us for a long time.
In all seriousness we may have to wait for Mr Trump’s second term in 2024 before seeing a resolution to this tragedy.
Talk about a double standard. Too bad those constituents don’t try and recall or impeach those they elected.
Your killing me Smalls! AMAC, the more articles I read from you the more I have my doubts about you being conservative at all…”take a deep breath, and look toward 2022. What else can we do?” You’re pathetic, GIVE ME A BREAK !
Let’s not forget that this so-called Covid stimulus payment will be withheld from anyone refusing to take the Covid vaccine! … How much do you want to bet Bella Lugosi Pelosi, the blood sucking vampiress and her colleagues WON’T be taking it?
2022 – can we expect an honest election then? The democrats will have 2 years to hone their election stealing methods. They did pretty good this time.
What did you expect?? Have you ever, and I mean EVER seen a career politician actually solve a problem?
I haven’t, not once. Has Joe ‘groper’ Biden ever solved a single problem? (Or did anything but make it worse?)
We can criticize the Socialist Party all we want, but remember how they got there? We the People put them in office just like We the People just elected our first socialist president. We asked for it and we got it.
The problem is that so many voters really are idiots voting against Trump and for a dishonest/demented Biden. Based solely on policy and achievement, President Trump has been one of our nation’s best presidents of all time in spite of unprecedented opposition from the left. The economy (especially for minorities), foreign policy, immigration, military readiness, and all the others have been stunning achievements. The dumbing-down of the American voter has been in progress for decades, and we are about to reap what was sown.
Liars, cheats (i.e. Communists), and foreign nations are trying to prevent exposing the TRUTH! If Supreme Court correctly rules that Unrequested “Mail-In” Ballots are unconstitutional, no further actions are needed for President Trump to win reelection!!! Get this action done first and then worry about the rest of the Fraud, which was extensive!!! Pending this action, get the Supremes to give an injunction delaying the Electoral College!!!!!
Conservatives are starting to doubt that the Republican Party is their HOME! Republican Study Committee is 150 out of 199 Republican Members of the House. Where are the other 49?!! From the traitors Paul Ryan and Romney, etc., many Republicans are Conservatives “IN NAME ONLY“!!! Whether under this new Banner or under the FreedomWorks.org Banner, together with the TRUMP Movement, it is time to form “The Freedom Party” with our Eagle as its Symbol!!! We will NEVER succeed against the DemocRat/Communists tied down with the hidden “Republican/Communists”!!! Join the Trump Movement – The American Revolution 2.0!!! Become a Counter-Revolutionary!!! Stand-up for Our Republic!!!! Remove Every DemocRat/Communist!!!!!
The DemocRat Party has clearly become a Domestic Terrorists Organization advocating the violent overthrow of our Republic! They should be declared Domestic Terrorists immediately and prosecuted!! Join the Trump Movement – The American Revolution 2.0!!! Become a Counter-Revolutionary!!! Stand-up for Our Republic!!!! Remove Every DemocRat/Communist!!!!!
Time to abolish the new radical democratic socialist party. The government does not own us nor are they kings over us, but are employed in a public servitude position.
Trust in GOD alone! When man trusts man or himself chaos ensues. GOD is sounding the alarm to wake us up. Turn to Jesus for salvation and deliverance. I pray in Jesus’ Name that every person will seek GOD immediately. Amen.
President TRUMP called it when he said “CRAZY NANCY”, shame on her. What a disgusting person!!!
This is so disgusting I don’t know what can even be said. And where’s the Republican Party and Donald Trump in this? Why aren’t all those in dire need getting a 2nd check. It’s all BULLSH**
GREAT analogy!!!!
Thanks, Patriot will.
In your post was a cogent observation of the history of our species.
Beware of the self-serving “humanitarian” with a mission to improve our condition whether we want it or not.
And they never stopped getting their salaries! I’ve lost trust in anything they say or do, and would love to quit paying them to serve themselves!
Thank you, Madame Pelosi… for holding Americans hostage over the Chinese Virus Relief Funding Bill. We, the People are appalled by your swift and generous consideration during this Pandemic! And, I pray that your constituents remember You, when you come up for reelection!!!
AMAC would reach millions more if they shared to Parler.com? Conservatives are waiting to share!
The true tragedy is that the politicians are now completely out of our control. They are raking in so much money from international billionaires that we don’t stand a chance. Our only hope is a campaign reform that completely strips anything except limited individual contributions, strictly monitored for amount and use. This has all gone way too far and we have to be able to halt the avalanche before we’re well and truly buried in the debris.
The Obama-Biden-Clinton corruption machine is still in business and America is once again for sale to the highest bidders. After 4 years of accusing the Trump administration of every illegal, immoral and traitorous act that the Democrats have done, they have engineered and successfully stolen an election. Expect the swamp creatures to be on full display, working overtime to destroy America as we know it and to visit unholy retribution on those who dared to resist them. Time to count your rounds Americans, there is a better than even chance that they will be needed.
I am only in favor of a vote on ONE BILL, not empteen bills attached. People in need of assistance NOW, not all the fighting that goes on with all the members.
The only way to stop this junk is term limits and voting.
What else to do: make the most of today. Support the President and all efforts to complete the Nov 3 election in the cleanest most legal way possible. Be kind to every person whose life you touch. Refuse to give up every day.
Establishment Republicans are champing at the bit to resume their quid pro quo with the Democrats when it comes to approving wasteful spending bills just to “gain” penny ante prizes for their constituents.
If congress just must pass another “relief” bill it should ONLY include help for the individual and small businesses. NOTHING for anything else.
When are we going to reclaim our country? we complain but we never do anything to fix these criminals in Washington. we’re at the point of do or die.
WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO? we can DEMAND a recount and PUNISH all the CRIMINALS involved in the treasonous actions against the LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT, ” WE THE PEOPLE “, we can DEMAND that chinajoe and his criminal family and the crooked clintons and all the rest of these self serving pompous donkey butts be investigated and punished, how much taxpayer money has been spent on investigations in the past couple decades? What has been the result? A lot of lawyers got RICH, nothing else, too many criminals get released over and over, and the courts are overburdened? Put the criminals in jail and for each criminal put in jail hundreds of crimes GET PREVENTED! THATS WHAT ” WE THE PEOPLE ” CAN DO!!
Doctors get paid extra for dealing with covid, so EVERYTHING IS NOW COVID, break your arm? Covid related, die from NATURAL CAUSES?,covid!Stop paying extra and covid dissapears! Get a cold? Get the flu? All COVID, PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS DONE AN INCREDIBLE JOB DESPITE THE CONSTANT ATTACKS FROM THE SOCIALIST/DEM TRAITORS!! everything covid related is a SCAM!!! Designed to steal the election, if the voter fraud is not stopped, chinajoe and cameltoe will “miraculously” end the pandemic the day after getting sworn in. NEVER SURRENDER!!!!!!!!!!
The problem solving caucus….how stupid does this ‘make-believe’ group of pathetic Democrats think that Americans are today? These congressional idiots cannot be taken seriously….especially by those citizens who lost their jobs forever. The Democrats under the leadership of Nancy “Do Nothing” Pelosi have never put themselves in the place of ordinary Americans. It is worse than shameful. They cannot relate to the problems the average American faces. This is just the start of the Marxist playbook they plan to unfold.
Piglosi and her Oinker pals are at it again (actually, are still at it, as in continuously since long before the 2016 election). “Problem Solving Caucus?” Really? More like a “Problem CAUSING Caucus.” But then does anyone really expect anything else from these Demsheviks other than their self-anointed posture as the “Saviors of the People!” and mindless pursuit of their misguided dystopian policies? Stay tuned folks, for I’m sure we will be seeing lots more of this kind of thing as long as they are in power. It’s okay if you throw up now. Excuse me, please, I feel a huge hurl coming on myself and need to take care of it.
The ultimate hypocrite, Nancy Pelosi, today admits that her delays and refusals of Covid Relief were political. She says her machinations were “a strategy.” And, now, with Biden hoping to become President, Pelosi feels her House Dems are in a better place and will now negotiate for real. This woman is so revolting, a genuine cynic and tone-deaf hack who is in her position for only one person–herself. She makes me sick.
Unfortunately, 2022 will not probably be the “fix all” that we the people think. If, as it looks to be the case, the dems get away with the theft of the 2020 election, I doubt we’ll ever see a majority again. If a nonmoral party can steal the W/H, why would anyone think that lower elections are any less susceptible to the same kind of fraud. Once biden/harris or harris/biden are in office, ANY chance of establishing accountability is gone. President Trump has fought the good fight, unfortunately he had too many criminal and RHINOs against him ready to stab him in the back. It a sad statement that history, regardless of country seems to be playing out here. Predicting that as soon as flack and flake take the W/H, there will be a slew of executive orders from amnesty and citizenship to tearing down walls to re-establishing regulations, to gun registrations, etc., etc. Hopefully, I know not of what I speak and I’m certainly looking at the “glass half empty” but we don’t have enough conservatives in office to counter the actions of the left and rhino class. And how can any of the above happen without fraud?
One of the worst run Congress, doing nothing for the people who actually pay taxes, while lining their pockets with money, passing bills that don’t help no one, except those who get a kickback or pleasure out of it. Their latest bill to pass concerning legalizing marijauna but had no time to actually create a bill to help anyone. The legal sale of marijauna supposedly will net $13B but also creates a nice little profit making setup to only designated sellers who already are the setup. Prices of this product will be skyrocketing, but who cares as it is now a legal item to sell. Nothing was written in the legislation about dealing with people who have been already arrested, jailed,fined, etc to expunge their records and they (Congess) have nerve to talk about the inequality of the legal system.
I guess getting high and making a profit is more important, after all it is perfectly okay for AOC to sell a cheap fleece shirt with some of her “ideals” for $65, after all her $174,000 Congressperson salary is not enough now for her lifestyle.
This whole business. Makes me sick! American’s don’t count, Just The Democrat -Socialist led Party! I’m not a Republican but when it comes to the Democrat controlled , State voting requirements. I must vote. in the Primary’s of course, for a particular Party. In the General election, I am allowed to vote for the candidate that the Parties paid for! Isn’t that generous of them! Then if the voting does not go their way. They will ” Find” votes just for their candidates. or manipulate the system for their own benefit. DOMINION come’s in mind! This time the lucky states are: Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania,Arizona and Nevada.
Judges make the rulings. The legislature’s can straight to hell. Judges rule except when it come to the vote count. That’s a No No. LAW?? What LAW! A judge in Washington D.C has the audacity , to change the law ats he sees fit! ( General Michael Flynn) ?
Fraud has been proven in the States I listed above. Does one thing the LAW will step in and force a recount. Nope: That’s the Legislature’s job!
The only Law is by Judges, that will interfere with law and stop , in this case. A recount. LAW! Really!
In the end: Dominion will be exonerated. Any recount, if is allowed, will in likelihood, be to late, to effect the overall voting fraud.
Every time I access AMAC and make a comment it gets BURIED, Usually by the same group with high numbers of responses, the comments should be displayed in the order received, so people have a chance to have thier responses read
and responded too, a hand full of people control the content, is AMAC going the way of foxnews and the rest of msm?
I did. It just got wipped out!
Communist China must being paying them a bunch of money to bring down the U.S.A.
Oh, so now it’s their idea! As a Air Force Veteran, 1968-1972, I am absolutely disgusted with how the “snake-in-the-grass Democrats” have literally thrown our freedoms out the door! They are a dictatorship in and of themselves! As long as the shoe is on “their foot”, and the ball is in their park, they’re fine and dandy!
Dear WE THE PEOPLE: May I suggest that every PATRIOT who lives in the USA and has not seen it yet watch The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing that has been put out as a DVD by EWTN! I have watched every time it has been on the TV and ordered two copies. I feel as though I am turning blue in the face trying to educate the people in this country. It is about Saul Alinsky and he is as horrid as stalin, hitler etc., anyone I have encountered in my life who have tried to suppress others who they deem as worthless. Now we are facing the horrible “useful idiots” (lenin started using this) from the progressives who only can see their advancement through cheating and lying and their quest for power (their only god) will continue. I am now in my 80’s and I have truly worked in a lot of countries over seas in health care and my husband was born in Berlin in 1938. I plan to write a book about his life and mine also as long as we are able to keep books!! I truly pray I will not have to smuggle it out of a “gulag” like Alexander S. had to do with his nobel prize winning book. We must ALL stand up to the vermin in our country. I would like to make another suggestion if I may. Each person should call in over and over as I have attempted to do to the governors, mayors, house, senate thugs who are so oppressive to their constituents. Do not let this tragedy continue and just go about your days saying “aw it ain’t that bad”! IT IS THAT BAD AND WE SHALL ALL PAY THE PRICE FOR WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO US. Thank you, Carol