Senate leaders announced a Deal for $2 Trillion Stimulus Package shortly after 1 a.m., and wanted to pass it today under intense pressure to take steps to reassure an American public rattled by the coronavirus. But this is the U.S. Senate, the most dysfunctional governing body in the world, mostly because the Senate’s legislating skills … Read more
Today’s headlines tell a disturbing story of gross incompetence and indifference to human life. Reuters reports, U.S. has potential of becoming coronavirus epicenter, says WHO: The United States has the potential to become the new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic due to a “very large acceleration” in infections there, the World Health Organization said on … Read more
I’ll begin where I ended this morning: “”Moscow Mitch” McConnell’s singular focus on partisan Republican politics is the last thing this country, or the world, needs right now. We need to get this right.” Yet this is exactly what is happening. Republicans are not serious about an economic stimulus package. The sham stimulus package they … Read more
“Moscow Mitch” McConnell’s Senate Republican stimulus bill, which no senator had time to read or absorb, or to debate failed on a 47-47 vote on Sunday, far short of the 60 votes needed for cloture. No Democrat voted for his bill, and five Republican senators are now in self-quarantine because of exposure to the coronavirus. … Read more
Donald Trump’s presidency is going to end the way it began. Trump used his inaugural address to do what no other American president has ever done before: he described America as a dystopian post-apocalyptic hellscape right out of Escape from New York. Trump takes office, vows an end to ‘American carnage’: “This American carnage stops right … Read more