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“This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision,” Majority Whip James Clyburn said last week. The Hill
reported he made this comment on a conference call with more than 200 House Democrats. This strategy is reminiscent of the advice given by former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” Emanuel
said in 2008 when the United States was in the midst of the financial crisis. “What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”
That’s exactly what congressional Democrats tried to do. On Sunday and Monday, Senate Democrats blocked the very coronavirus relief bill they helped negotiate. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released her own plan, which was chock-full of Democrat priorities unrelated to the coronavirus crisis.
Her bill
included same-day voter registration and a mandate that states provide early voting, which are long-time Democrat priorities. It also funded a
study on climate change and included a
requirement for corporate board diversity. There was a provision
forgiving $10,000 in student loans. A
bailout of the Postal Service. A requirement that
airlines reduce carbon emissions.
Goodies for unions involving collective bargaining and union leave time.
Pelosi also wanted to
shower money on pork projects. There was $35 million for The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, $300 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $100 million for NASA. She also wanted to give $600 million to the IRS.
This is shameful. On one hand, Democrats say they believe a coronavirus stimulus bill is necessary to save the U.S. economy and prevent untold hardships to families and businesses. On the other hand, they delayed that relief in an attempt to advance their unrelated domestic policy priorities.
Pelosi was forced to abandon all her DPST pork projects - including Green New Deal, illegal alien, abortion support, elimination of ICE, increase in support for illegals, and on and on.
Polluters - the DPST riders were that - Ts got one thing correct!
