Let's catch up on what the biggest threat to American democracy and Putin's biggest asset outside of the Oval Office has been up to:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed in a private call with House Republicans Wednesday that the enhanced unemployment benefits keeping millions of people afloat amid Great Depression-level joblessness will not be extended in the next coronavirus stimulus legislation, effectively endorsing a major income cut for a large swath of the U.S. population.
The boosted unemployment insurance—which provides an additional $600 per week on top of state benefits and is set to expire on July 31—”will not be in the next bill,” the Kentucky Republican reportedly told his GOP colleagues, calling the fact that some people are making slightly more money on unemployment than they did from their jobs “crazy.” (our emphasis)"Crazy"! But what's not crazy to Moscow Mitch, and why the push to end enhanced unemployment benefits?
McConnell, whose remarks during the private call were first reported by Politico, also said he will continue advocating aggressively for the inclusion of corporate liability protections in the next stimulus package, but did not provide a timeline for the legislation.
The Kentucky Republican’s effort to shield corporations from legal responsibility for workers who contract Covid-19 on the job has drawn outrage from consumer advocacy groups, small businesses, and seniors.
McConnell’s push for corporate liability protections and opposition to extending beefed-up unemployment benefits are interlinked: While urging states to reopen and pressuring people to return to potentially unsafe workplaces by moving to end benefits, the GOP is simultaneously attempting to guarantee that companies are not held accountable for endangering the health of employees by bringing them back prematurely amid a pandemic. (our emphasis)Read that last paragraph again and tell us Moscow Mitch and his rotted- out "party of life" don't believe in profits before people. They're not even trying to hide it anymore because their own voters are so deep in the bubble they believe there's nothing wrong with any of the wicked dystopia their party has ushered into American life.* To them it's "cleansing society," "weeding out the weak and unproductive" -- until it happens to them, and then they blame (insert favorite targets here).
Amy McGrath is aiming to replace this particular turtle- like tumor in November. Help her if you can.
UPDATE: Mrs. Moscow Mitch is also benefiting from her conjugal arrangement: the Transportation Department Acting Inspector General has been ousted while overseeing an investigation of her funneling Federal money into her hubby's state for his political benefit. Another reason to vote Moscow Mitch out.
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*Or as Driftglass colorfully puts it, that "tens of millions of our fellow citizens are such abject failures as citizens and as human beings that they would fling themselves into a live volcano at Trump's command and blame Liberals for the pain with their dying breath."
