The Only Person Keeping $1,200 Out of Your Hands is Nancy Pelosi | #SendUsTheMoney

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I was flabbergasted when I read Trump’s tweet where he said he wouldn’t negotiate with Democrats on COVID until after the election.

It reminded me of when he said he wouldn’t negotiate with Democrats on infrastructure until after impeachment. In both respects, it makes him look unreasonable and it makes Democrats more likely to drag their feet in the future in the hope that he walks away again because in Washington D.C. optics trump policy, i.e. making an opponent look unreasonable trumps doing something reasonable together. And then less than 24 hours later the president at least in part redeemed himself…

Now if Nancy Pelosi is playing politics it makes sense for her to wait until after Election Day or even until after Inauguration Day to pass any additional COVID relief.

But walking away or refusing to negotiate would make Democrats look bad as evidenced by the backlash Trump received so she has to at least look like she’s trying until November or January. The way to do this is by proposing, as the Senate’s second highest-ranked Republican Senator John Thune described as a, “$3 trillion laundry list of agenda items that have nothing to do with the coronavirus,” which includes protections for undocumented workers and a disproportionate amount of the money going to Democrat-run states and universities.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has stipulated the Senate will not consider any legislation that costs more than $2 trillion, deriding the House bill’s price tag as “outlandish” and “too high.”

Intelligent Democrats reluctantly recognize we have a Republican-run presidency and senate therefore any genuine attempt at passing COVID relief would forgo leftist grandstanding. As I said in a previous video, Democrat politicians frequently grandstand on progressive issues when Republicans have the power to block it, such as Medicare-for-All on the state-level, but then when Democratic politicians take back control of every level of their state government and are therefore able to pass Medicare-for-All, such as currently in California and New York, they don’t even put it up for a vote and instead pivot to the center by announcing a commission to “look into it.”

If Nancy Pelosi was putting Americans first, which to her credit she did with the CARES Act, she would just agree to those things she agrees with and leave the rest for November or January.

For example, if she wants to eat all the ice cream, but Mommy will only let her have one scoop then it doesn't make logical sense to refuse that scoop until she gets all the ice cream unless, of course, she is waiting to see if Mommy will eventually leave the room. Ice cream is one thing though. COVID relief may be the difference between whether people get to eat at all.

Nancy Pelosi says she supports giving $1,200 check to all Americans, which is already a difficult pill for many Republicans to swallow, so then what is Nancy Pelosi’s excuse for refusing to pass the standalone stimulus check bill? In a press briefing on Thursday, Pelosi said, 

“There ain’t going to be no standalone bill unless there is a bigger bill and it can be part of that or it can be in addition to.”

But a standalone bill, by definition, is not part of a “bigger bill” so in effect she is saying she does not support a standalone bill unless Republicans give her what she wants on at least some things, but Republicans will not give her what she wants on some things unless she gives them what they want on some things too and then we end up back at square one where Pelosi can use the complexity of a big bill to avoid doing anything until after the election.

Joe Biden has over a 10 point lead in the polls so it’s extremely politically cautious for Nancy Pelosi to hold an overwhelmingly popular standalone bill hostage in order to score political points. Democrats who cheerlead this sort of behavior should think twice by asking themselves will encouraging political cautiousness also cause her in a Biden administration to put political safeness over doing whats right for the American people?

If our political system is going to work for We the People then we can’t let Republicans nor Democrats get away with blocking the overwhelming will of the American people on a specific bipartisan issue where time is of the essence. So if you guys want the money then I recommend, especially if your a Democrat, to tweet at Nancy Pelosi telling her to send us the money.