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?
I am still waiting for an answer from AMAC as to who approves our comments and WHY? I am shocked that those who say that we live in a FREE country still watch what is written here? I have never had this happen before only that my comments get shoved back and buried. Is it because of the group who write the comments are in a special group? I have seen the same names come up! I really predicted all that would happen to these “use idiots” like swowell, pelosi etc. as I worked in the soviet union and the middle east in 1991-92 in health care. socialism/communism never works or wins. Now they want to take over the entire country by first removing biden by going after his son? He is the BIGGEST useful idiot I have ever seen. I have no problems with the people of China but the communist regime needs to be totally overthrown and eradicated. This is also how I am feeling about the “Demonrats” in this country. That includes all that have so much hatred for this one person who has done so much for all the people here and loves this country. Believe me I am very aware of this nations ills and have read extensively about the world’s history and our history. I have also worked in other countries where oppression is the first order! I will never tolerate that sort of “order” in this country. That is why I sent an email to AMAC as to who are they to question anything that is written by an 80+ years old person who because of her profession has had the privilege of working with people and children of all colors, religions, nationalities, genders etc. both at home in the USA and out of the country. Tha k you, Carol
Why do we hear the numbers of new positive tests, covid 19 deaths and totals on a daily and by radio, every hour ? Who, early on, decided that hospitals should receive $13000.00 taxpayer dollars compensation for every covid patient ? Who decided that this, and not flu or any other pandemic should require worldwide closure of “non-essential” entities ? Why did Fauchi contribute millions of taxpayer dollars to the corona virus lab in China? We had our own lab for germ warfare on an island just off Long Island from which Lyme Disease escaped which was closed a few years ago and is now located in central America in a place known as Kansas. Lyme was denied by our politicians for decades and was finally acquiesced as being a disease BUT not CHRONIC LYME DISEASE. The denial is because it is a man-made disease and the government is legally liable for their negligence in foisting it on American citizens. All the covid 19 hullabaloo is to scare all of the peons of the world into learning to follow orders of politicians at will, so one world order is able to slide smoothly on the rails laid by the elites, for whom the peons will labor when all is sprung. Nothing less than a full blown revolution and the physical removal of all the swamp denizens will bring our republic back to governance by “we the people.”
Politicians playing politics with US lives is disgusting to me.
Can you feel it? The seething anger growing. The animosity getting more bitter. The thoughts of revenge becoming clearer. The desire to punish the DNC expanding. This is how civil war begins. They are unwittingly begging for it.
What these arrogant Politicos don’t realize is all the “little people” that have had enough, and are thinking that a public hanging is too good for these leeches.
Please add the ability to post to Parler.
Vote them out
Pelosi needs to step down. Her hatred for OUR President has blinded her to any needs of her constituents!
They need to stop adding “pork” to major and important bills. The “pork” should be proposed separately and voted on its own merit.
You end the article with, “What else can we do?” What we can do is stop allowing the fake news media, and Dummycrats, dictate the situation. This election is far from over, but the longer we accept the dictates of the fake news/Dummycrats, the more likely things become. There is a groundswell of momentum behind exposing the fraud perpetrated in this election. Stop accepting the propaganda spouted by the main stream press. Start sounding off about the PRAVDA style reporting done about the election. There are more pro-Trump voters in this country than liberal nuts. Do not let this theft stand unopposed. The Emperor does not have a new suit! This is just a naked theft attempt of our country. Just goes to show what happens when there are no consequences for political treason. If we had been hanging these folks for the last 40 years we wouldn’t have this problem.
I would like to know WHY those on left and media BELIEVE the lies of pelosi and shumer put out. Is it their DISLIKE FOR TRUMP is so bad they believe lies instead. GUYS we are in DEEP DO DO!!!!
John Fallon Well I wrote a comment 3 hours ago ad again. t was put so far down in the list and it states on the top right that it is “waiting for approval! Approval from whom Carol
Today’s Democrat party has to be the most ignorant, self-centered, uncaring, mean, evil and every other negative adjective in the English language that I’ve ever seen or even heard of in my life and I’m way past retirement age….
No one in the picture is wearing a face mask and they are not social distancing either. Isn’t that illegal?
To John Fallon: I told you I would put a comment in and I hope you see it before it gets buried like all my other comments. I am now realizing that the way that the comments are ranked is by the number of reply’s received and not by the dates/times they are written? This is not fair to those of us who have much to say but get thrown back as they are not left on long enough for others to see the newer comments. At the age of 80+ I have done and seen a lot in the word and I wish people would be able to see a lot of what I say. I always think that Mr. Charles hits the nail on the head and I have always appreciated his articles. Take care and thank you, Carol
Americans are wise to the dem. schemes. That’s why they had to steal the election.
Love reading my morn’ news from my AMAC fam ????
This is why the postal service was used to lose millions of votes for
Trump and back date mail in votes for Biden….they have mismanaged their budgets forever and now they are broke and want the American tax payer to bail out their business.
History had its Typhoid Mary. We have our Pandemic Crazy Nancy to contend with! I would rather have Typhoid Mary, thank you …
The problem isn’t the politician. The problem is the voter. They complain for years and yet when it is time to vote, they vote for the same person. So the politician seeing they will never lose their job or power goes merrily along taking care of themselves and screwing the people. We’ve only ourselves to blame for this mess. We’ve been kept happy, dumb and distracted while our children where being indoctrinated into a communist system. We are about to pay the piper for our complacency. What will we do about it?
What makes the outcome of the election so unbelievable is the simple fact that the choice was between, provably, knowing how to do something and doing it, regarding the economy, and knowing how to tax and spend and, thus, suppress the economy. If Americans felt so desperate that they, factually, chose to increase republican legislators to restrict a democrat president—whom they, disputedly, also, chose, it indicates the position of being between a rock and a hard place, looking for help, but knowing the exorbitant cost of it. Knowing what President Trump has, successfully, accomplished, it seems illogical, if it is, indeed, an honest choice. What is unforgivable is how democrat politicians have manipulated the information and statistics on Covid-19 to assert the power of control to, virtually, destroy free-enterprise capitalism for so many businesses. While asserting that they are–or want to–“follow the science,” they have a solid record of having politicized the issue out of any sensible proportion to factual reality as attested to by many physicians. Since the historical record of socialism is so horrendous, it is counter-intuitive and counter-intelligent to believe that Americans voted (in an honest election?) to move further to the left, ideologically. Since the 1950s, America has been changed, increasingly, negatively, by government policies which have increase the problems and increased the power of government to attempt to solve the problems it has caused. It is an undeniable fact that liberals and Democrats have been responsible for this cause-and-effect relationship and that they have mastered the art of malevolent, political control.
I want to impeach Biden now. Its so easy. But if he is gone he will be replaced by a bigger fool than he is ( Harris). So, I conclude, its best
to use the dims love of war to attach China. Not in our usual wimpy way but in a true BOMBS OVER BEGING way.
Biden will hand this country over to the chicoms as fast as he can do. That,s what we voted for. I say BOMBS OVER BEGING.
The only hope is that the dimocrat’s devotion to war, due to their dependence on military industry contributions, will encourage them
to attack China. Not in one of our usual “limited contact” programs but in a total destroy China program.
I’d say shame on them but they have none.
Frightened for our nation.
The dense oc RATS are very good at destroying confidence in our governmental processes and mostly in the democrats.
Nancy Pelosi is a female without substance of character, she is symbolic of America’s downfall in her distorted criminal narcissistic behavior. She is beyond madness and needs to be taken to a place where she is never heard from or seen again.
The dims are delighted. They have created another victim class. In the long run, those who are working will get to take care of another
set of victims. The dims are always a party looking for a victim in this” horrible nation founded by beasts ” (their version). I DO understand that the chicom virus has caused death and terrible damage. And for all of those affected, I have empathy. I could be the next victim. However, I will always bet on the resourcefullness of the US ( not american) people to solve their own problems and do not believe that another govt bailout makes
any sense. Another bailout means fill out another set of papers and hope you fit the “criteria”. BS. IMPEACH BIDEN BY FEB 1 !!!!!
Enjoyed the truth in the article. We can do a lot. Letters to our congressional reps even if they are liberal/progressive or both. Continue to chip in to insure that we hold the Senate.
We seniors need help just as much as anyone else does
Nasty Nancy Pelosi brags about having received all her eduKation in Kalifornia schools; in fact, she was elected to Phi Beta Krapper in recognition of her “brilliance?” and later designated as a “Roads Scholar” (or was it “Rodes Scholar?) to study at the University of Antarctica (its where she acquired the “ice” in her veins); unfortunately, she eventually returned to the Beltway to hold sway and to reign over all the like-minded Demshevik misfits.
To the STUPID Dummy-cRats, and RINO’s, we would much rather have a serious Middle-Income Tax Reduction than a STUPID hand-out handing the bill to our Grandchildren!!! None of your lies and deceits helped O’Biden!!! Without your obvious Felony Voting Fraud and Unconstitutional “Mail-Out” Ballots, your “candidates” would NOT have won a single race!!!!! Join the Trump Movement – The American Revolution 2.0!!! Become a Counter-Revolutionary!!! Stand-up for Our Republic!!!! Remove Every DemocRat/Communist!!!!!
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
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!
Communist China must being paying them a bunch of money to bring down the U.S.A.
I did. It just got wipped out!
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 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.
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!!!!!!!!!!
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!!
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.
If congress just must pass another “relief” bill it should ONLY include help for the individual and small businesses. NOTHING for anything else.
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.
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.
The only way to stop this junk is term limits and voting.
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.