The Communist Socialist Democrats “Ideological Wishlist” Holding To The CHINA Coronavirus Relief
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883 Pages of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act Released… The Communist Socialist Democrats “Ideological Wishlist” Holding To The CHINA Coronavirus Relief Bill is 1400 PAGES LONG...
Yikes, the text of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) has been released (full pdf below - https://www.scribd.com/document/453273118/Cares-Act-Final-Text). The Senate took H.R.748 - https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/748/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22hr748%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=1 stripped it out, and replaced the text with this bill. The full 50 page senate record of the activity is available here - https://www.congress.gov/116/crec/2020/03/24/CREC-2020-03-24.pdf .
Digging in now. However, at first blush the size of the spending seems to be a considerable state budget deficit bailout [similar to how Obamacare removed the healthcare pension liabilities from unions]. Here’s the BILL on this webpage: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/25/883-pages-of-coronavirus-aid-relief-and-economic-security-act-released/
Nancy Pelosi is not going to let this public health crisis go to waste. The house speaker is holding much-needed economic relief hostage to gain for Democrats something they have long yearned for: more federal control over state elections.
In a bill ostensibly intended to save American jobs, Pelosi and her Senate allies crammed a wish list of bad election and voting reforms, including mandatory early voting, mandatory voting by mail, and the legalization of California-style ballot harvesting. Pelosi is taking the country closer to federalized elections than ever before.
What’s in it for them? It creates a one-stop shop to engineer the rules of the game. They believe that if they can manipulate the rules, they can manipulate the outcome of the election. This is their ultimate ticket to defeating Trump. Democrats seem willing to let the economy, and your livelihood, continue to flounder.
By constitutional design, states administer their own elections. States decide how we vote and when. This design preserves federalism and individual liberties. It’s hard to engineer the rules of the game when there are 50 different playing fields with unique needs and demographics. What works for South Dakota could fail in New York.
Pelosi knows that federal control makes imposing her political will on a national basis a much easier task. Her reforms are not only fundamentally at odds with the founders’ design — they are bad policy.
For example, Pelosi’s bill would legalize ballot harvesting. This practice allows any person to collect and turn in someone else’s ballot with little limit on how many voters a single agent is working for. In 2018, Democrats used California’s newly enacted ballot-harvesting rules to flip seven red districts blue. Pelosi’s plan says states must accept unlimited ballot harvesting everywhere.
Nationwide mail-in voting is dangerous. The Public Interest Legal Foundation studies voter rolls across the nation. They are riddled with duplicated registrations, deceased people, and other incomplete or corrupted information. We found one Pittsburgh-area registrant with seven active registrations at the same address. Under Pelosi's all-mail voting, a ballot (perhaps even more than one) will likely go to people who are no longer alive or residing at their registered address on file. That is the perfect situation for fraud.
Democrats believe early voting also gives them an advantage. The thinking goes that if the election is spread out over several months, there is more opportunity to identify and move otherwise unmotivated voters to the polls. Regardless, needs and resources vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Those who administer state and local elections, not Pelosi, should decide how much early voting, if any, is appropriate.
The November election is more than seven months off. It is far from certain that the coronavirus will still be a major concern by Election Day. If issues remain, there are far less drastic options for protecting the health of voters — the same options currently being used effectively in your grocery store: masks, gloves, disinfecting wipes, and proper distancing. These are better options than fundamentally overhauling 50 systems in a matter of months.
State and local leaders already have the experience, knowledge, and authority to administer their own elections, even during a public health crisis. They do not need Pelosi to decide what is best for them as a part of her eleventh-hour negotiation tactics. Pelosi and her fellow Democrats should focus on defeating the virus, saving jobs, and restoring a historically thriving economy.
Republicans are accusing Democrats of using the coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to push unrelated political agendas, as the two sides failed to reach an agreement Sunday night to advance legislation that would provide relief to American businesses and families struggling as a result of the outbreak.
On the Senate floor shortly after noon on Monday, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell lit into Democrats, specifically alleging they were trying to extract concessions from airlines over their "carbon footprint," with the economy hanging in the balance.
“They ought to be embarrassed,” he said. “This is no time for this nonsense.”
“As Leader Schumer continues to hold up the desperately-needed relief package, the last-minute list of demands from Pelosi’s and Schumer’s ideological wish list are coming into focus,” the aide said.
These include new collective bargaining powers for unions, higher fuel emissions standards for airlines, and expanded wind and solar tax credits.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., confirmed this on Twitter Monday morning after the same information was tweeted by TownHall.com political editor and Fox News contributor Guy Benson.
"This report is correct. Pelosi & Schumer are willing to risk your life, your job, your retirement savings for a radical, left-wing wish list that has nothing to do with this virus," Cotton said. "Disgraceful."
Via senior GOP aide, Schumer/Pelosi now pushing these demands amid pandemic-fueled economic collapse: 1) Unprecedented collective bargaining powers for unions
2) Increased fuel emissions standards for airlines
3) Expansion of wind and solar tax credits
“Not only are these completely unrelated to the coronavirus epidemic, they could prevent companies from participating in the loan programs altogether—directly causing unnecessary layoffs,” the aide said.
After House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn, was reported by The Hill to have said that this is "a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision,” McConnell, R-Ky., warned against using the “Phase 3” coronavirus relief package as a political opportunity.
“That’s not what this is about," McConnell said. "This is not about unrelated policy changes, this is about direct assistance to the American people and to small businesses and to hospitals and others who are in need because we in government at all levels, in order to deal with this pandemic, have basically shut the economy down.”
The Republican aide said the new Democratic demands arose after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi returned to Washington, D.C. from a weeklong House recess. Pelosi said the House would introduce their own bill as she was reportedly seeking a "laundry list" of items to be included in the emergency legislation, including wiping out up to $10,000 in student loan debt per person and securing election-security funding.
Other add-ons that Democrats including Pelosi have pushed for include food security aid, small business loans, and other measures for workers, The Associated Press reported, though these are more closely related to the crisis at hand.
Democrats including Schumer, D-N.Y., also claimed to have problems with the existing draft of the bill, arguing that the plan put forth by Senate Republicans was tilted toward corporations and did too little to help workers and health care providers.
Many Democrats had complained that the draft aid package did not go far enough to provide health care and unemployment aid for Americans, and failed to put restraints on a proposed $500 billion "slush fund" for corporations, saying the ban on corporate stock buy-backs are weak and the limits on executive pay would last only two years.
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are a disgrace to this country.Millions of Americans are losing their jobs, paychecks, retirement in a national crisis - and all Democrats care about is using that crisis to fund Abortions and the Green New Deal goodies.
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