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2020-03-27 Home Front: Politix
Republicans Cave To Pelosi, Unanimously Vote To Give $350 Million To (Muz?) Refugees, Illegals?
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Posted by Woodrow 2020-03-27 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1 Sausage. Move on.
Posted by Lex 2020-03-27 00:44||   2020-03-27 00:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Voted funds do not always get spent, assuming the House actually passes the exact same thing —House Speaker Pelosi only promised to put the thing before the membership for a vote today, she did not promise it would be passed.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-27 01:00||   2020-03-27 01:00|| Front Page Top

#3 ^It would be passed - Congress Dems are afraid of Covid like everybody else. They want to pass and go home.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-27 04:58||   2020-03-27 04:58|| Front Page Top

#4 ^House Dems including 2020 hopeful, ‘Squad’ member show coronavirus symptoms
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-27 05:04||   2020-03-27 05:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Sausage, indeed. At least they're no longer giving the store away, like Boehner did bending over 100% for Obama with the 2012 federal budget. That was the point I finally and fully realized that Republicans are the Beltway Party and was offering up only token opposition, and even that was too infrequent.

Then again, it helps a lot to have Trump and a 'Pub Senate. I still maintain no bill would've been better, definitely better in the long run, but next to nobody seems to gives a rat's ass about continuing to print money and spend it like Keith Richards buying blow in the 1970's.
Posted by Raj 2020-03-27 06:48||   2020-03-27 06:48|| Front Page Top

#6 So, a million gimmiegrants, that's $350 per. We know it's a lot more than a million. And we know there will be a pass-through shrinkage from their minders.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-27 08:22||   2020-03-27 08:22|| Front Page Top

#7 What ever happened to the line item veto?
Posted by BrerRabbit 2020-03-27 08:34||   2020-03-27 08:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Once the vote passes the GOP should put forth another law that says money appropriated for x and y should be used instead for Z (a readiness package for the next pandemic, foreign aid geared to fight Corona, something like that). Make Z something nobody could possibly say no to and at least the money goes to a good place, Dems look bad, and the recovery money is out there circulating in the meantime.
Posted by ruprecht 2020-03-27 09:06||   2020-03-27 09:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Come Nov the Pub's better adopt a twist on the Democrap's " a crisis is a terrible thing to waste" with "a landslide is a terrible thing to waste" and do a CTRL-ALT-DEL on all the extra curricular Bravo Sierra in all these CV19 bills....
Posted by FleeingCal 2020-03-27 12:51||   2020-03-27 12:51|| Front Page Top

#10 This assumes that the COC suckers of the GOP have any objections to these measures.
Posted by charger 2020-03-27 13:05||   2020-03-27 13:05|| Front Page Top

#11 Since we are presently keeping out or should be keeping out refugees and immigrants, what do they need the $350 mil for? If they are already here, they probably ought to get medical care just to halt the spread of the virus.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-03-27 13:06||   2020-03-27 13:06|| Front Page Top

#12 Given that everyone that is non-essential is home, spending anything will take a while. A lot can stay for long while before they're missed and probably cheaper for all of us if they do. Incrementally bring back the bureaucracy ("its for the children old folks"). Meanwhile, if Nancy loses the House in November, anything not executed can be clawed back.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-03-27 14:40||   2020-03-27 14:40|| Front Page Top

#13 3.5*10^8/2*10^12 = 1.75*10^(-4) = 0.000175
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-27 17:33||   2020-03-27 17:33|| Front Page Top

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