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2020-04-05 Home Front: Politix
Nobody Knows How to Politicize a Pandemic Like Nancy Pelosi.
[HumanEvents.com] On Wednesday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden (who, one must remember, holds no elected office at the moment) promised that any further coronavirus legislation might just contain something of "my green deal." It’s not clear if he was referring to some sort of environmental plan‐or how he expects to craft legislation from his basement in Delaware‐but even Sleepy Joe seems to think that a global pandemic signals a time for pork-barrel politics.

None among the Democrats has embraced this ethos more than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, however. As the coronavirus crisis rages on around us, Pelosi is still looking for creative ways to spend your tax dollars.

After failing to stuff the $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package with a bevy of her social justice pet projects, Pelosi had the gall to announce that Democrats had made the bill about "workers first."

"It went from a corporate first proposal that the Republicans put forth in the Senate to a workers first‐Democratic workers first‐legislation," said Pelosi, at one of her increasingly bizarre news conferences where the grand dame of Congress appears to be crumbling under the weight of her own rhetoric. "The bill that was passed in the Senate last night [Wednesday] and that we will take up tomorrow [Friday] is about mitigation: mitigation for all the loss that we have in our economy while still addressing the emergency health needs that we have in our country."

What the Speaker neglected to mention, however, was how her bill would have forced any airline receiving government bailout money to cut their carbon footprint in half and any business to implement a "diversity plan." Oh, and she made sure the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts received a handsome handout (note: after they grabbed the $25 million in cash, the management promptly started laying-off musicians).

Now, Pelosi is moving on to "phase four" of the Democrats’ coronavirus rescue package: save the (Democratic) millionaires.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-05 00:40|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top

#1 House Dems Introduce Bill to Give Wuhan Virus Relief Money to Illegal Aliens
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-05 04:14||   2020-04-05 04:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Is there not some legal way to remove this woman from office along with other morons such as Schumer, Schiff, Nadler? (O.K. wishful thinking on my part this Palm Sunday morning)
Posted by JohnQC 2020-04-05 08:31||   2020-04-05 08:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Why does it have to be a "legal: way?
Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2020-04-05 15:50||   2020-04-05 15:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, JohnQC. It's called an election. Trouble is, there are an awful lot of idiots in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-04-05 18:36||   2020-04-05 18:36|| Front Page Top

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