March 24, 2020
Journey to Surrealville: What's really fueling Pelosi's shutdown of America's relief package?
By Monica Showalter
After days of unusual comity between Republicans and Democrats in the coronavirus crisis, the big congressional economic aid package to help hospitals, laid off workers, and battered small businesses all came crashing down as Nancy Pelosi jetted in from vacation, blocking the set-to-go bill over the weekend. In place of that, she came up with a 1,400-nightmare political goody bag for the left — everything from ballot-harvesting to corporate diversity requirements to greenie airline regulations to a $15 minimum wage and a lot of other horrors — attempting to slip through the entire panoply of laws her party wants to enact but can't get passed.
It was Pelosi's and other Democrats' doing, all right — just look at how the New York Times changed its headline sequence, first putting out the facts about Democrat road-blocking, then, likely after some Pelosian phone calls, softening the blame, and then declaring the whole thing a bipartisan morass. Yeah, sure.
It's an outrage. It's a mistake. It's likely to get them thrown out for good from both the House and Senate come November. As Roger Simon noted in his excellent piece, they're using a pandemic for political aims, suggesting they have no limits on how far they'll go to use any crisis for political gains. They'd do the same in a nuclear attack, he points out, because they are that far gone. Christopher Bedford at the Federalist has an excellent piece, too.
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