Nebraska’s House Members Are Invested In The Failure Of The U.S.
The House passed President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan on February 27. Jeff Fortenberry, Don Bacon and Adrian Smith all voted no. This vote confirmed once again that Bacon is no moderate and his entire re-election campaign was based upon fraud.
According to The Hill.com, this historic bill contains: “Several of the provisions advocated by Biden are in the legislation, including stimulus payments of up to $1,400 following the $600 that millions of Americans received under the last package.
The legislation also extends supplemental unemployment benefits and boost them from $300 per week to $400. Nutrition assistance and housing aid are also included in the bill.
Other provisions include $195.3 billion to states, $130.2 billion to local governments and $14 billion to research, develop and distribute vaccines.”
According to Moody’s, Biden’s Covid Relief bill would provide a big boost to the ailing economy. According to Yahoo News: “The U.S. job market would recover to its pre-pandemic levels by fall of 2022 if President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue plan is implemented, according to new estimates by Moody’s Analytics. That would be an entire year sooner than if no more relief is passed.”
“We would recover all of the 10 million jobs that were down since the pandemic hit,” Mark Zandi, Moody’s Analytics chief economist, told Yahoo Money. “If we get no more fiscal — if nothing gets through — it’s late 2023 before we get back to full employment.”
Moody’s is projecting the following GDP growth after the bill passes: 8% in 2021 and 4% in 2022.
An economic boom would be a political disaster for the feckless D.C. Republicans. That’s why Fortenberry, Bacon, Smith and their fellow House Republicans all voted no. The D.C. Republicans are fully invested in the failure of the country and the Biden presidency in a cynical attempt to regain power.
The American Rescue plan wouldn’t only revive the moribund economy, it also contains money for safely re-opening schools. The D.C. Republicans like to complain about schools being closed, and they voted against a bill to aid school re-openings. Typical.
Fortenberry, Bacon and Smith also voted to defund the police. Already due to the pandemic and recession, over 1 million state and local government employees have been laid off. Our Congressional delegation just voted for even more layoffs. The next round of layoffs will most likely include police and firefighters.
Nebraska’s Congressional delegation voted no even though the bill is supported by 70% of the voters and 160 prominent CEOs. That is bi-partisan support. Once again, they are governing against the will of the majority. The only opponents to the bill are the reckless and hyper-partisan D.C. Republicans like Fortenberry and Bacon.
In the meantime, their party bosses, Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise, went to Mar-A-Lago to kiss Donald Trump’s rings. What’s more, a close ally of Marjory Taylor Greene was one of the thugs who attacked the Capitol on January 6.
Over on the Senate side, 40 out of 50 GOP Senators oppose all stimulus and have no plan of their own. Nebraska’s Deb Fischer and Ben Sasse have committed themselves to all out obstruction and sabotage.
These same Senate Republicans have been lecturing us about civility and tweets. These guys are playing us for chumps and believe that we are all idiots. GOP Sen. John Kennedy calls Deb Haaland a “neo-socialist left-of-Lenin whackjob.”. On Neera Tanden, he says, “I’m not saying she’s a smoked turkey, but the smoker is heating up.”
How are Biden and the Democrats supposed to work with the D.C. Republicans on a bi-partisan basis? Are you f*cking kidding me?
Greg Sargent of the Washington Post: “The GOP strategy…will have left Republicans in the position of having contributed little to nothing of actual value to a large national success story that most Americans will be celebrating.”
We Democrats need to constantly message to the voters the profound differences between the two parties. We Democrats are the party of the people. The Democratic Party created Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans are the party of the rich, sabotage, mass unemployment, mass illness, mass death and violence.
The Republicans will always be the party of Donald Trump. We must never let the voters forget that. History matters. Now let’s get it done!