After playing no leadership role negotiating covid relief, Trump threatens at the last minute to upend the bipartisan bill even though both houses of Congress approved it with overwhelming veto-proof majorities. @lukebroadwater @arappeport https://t.co/S3BSR3QUcp
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) December 23, 2020
Trump’s team - led by Mnuchin - helped negotiate covid relief deal. WH officials are on record saying he’d sign it. And after the House passed it with a huge veto-proof majority, 359-53, and the Senate approved it, 92-6, he now says he wants it amended and calls bill a “disgrace” https://t.co/KsAQWSosJ2
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 23, 2020
Republicans repeatedly refused to say what amount the President wanted for direct checks. At last, the President has agreed to $2,000 — Democrats are ready to bring this to the Floor this week by unanimous consent. Let’s do it! https://t.co/Th4sztrpLV
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) December 23, 2020
Meanwhile, down the other rabbit hole.This didn’t age well https://t.co/Pdb3NSbrRB
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 23, 2020
BREAKING: The Arizona Legislature is not currently in session, and won’t be again until January 11.
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) December 23, 2020
This is just some guys in a hotel. https://t.co/8DVG4MF8ez
I think Rudy's got a great future on the Home Shopping Channel selling crap, if he doesn't have one making license plates. I remember when he was first in the national news, when Gotti was being prosecuted that I thought he was a sleazebag and that was the height of his credibility. Sorry but my opinion of the legal profession has melted like Rudy's hair dye.
ReplyDeleteThere's a whole lot of willingness to accept people in public office as Very Serious People until proven otherwise, and the "proven otherwise" is very difficult to do.
ReplyDeleteWell, unless they are no longer people in public office. Then suddenly we can see them for who they are, like Giuliani and now Trump. A lot of the bleating about the "dangers to democracy" are these kinds of complaints: the undue respect for public office holders, as if to regard them as what they are (crooks and scoundrels, too many of them) will reveal the Emperor is naked and the government "established by the Founding Fathers" is more of a criminal enterprise than a service to the people.
Humankind, as Eliot pointed out, cannot bear very much reality.