Dems squandered weeks of opportunity to address issues that were important to them. DHHS has a budget, and renewing the over-inflated, over-reaching COVID tax credits in the Unaffordable Care Act could have been part of those negotiations. Instead, they demanded it, along with some other crap, and held the entire government hostage. And that’s a problem.
The longer it goes on, the more votes to repeal that they tank, the more actual health-care harm they create. The thing they claimed to fight for becomes their own enemy, and Becky Quick at CNBC just made matters worse when she took Hakeem Jeffries to the woodshed on live TV.
It is also worth noting that,
- These were a temporary response to the so-called pandemic that should be allowed to sunset.
- Taxpayers should not be on the hook for benefits enhancements that include non-citizens (especially the ones trying to rob, rape, and kill them.
- The proper path was during regular business, not after taking the government hostage.
- Every time Trump saves someone with help outside the government, your government looks increasingly like a barrier, not a benefactor.
The twist, of course, is that they must have internal polling to justify the continued obstruction as the party of No keeps millions out of work and millions wandering if they’ll get pay or benefits as Dems hold it all hostage for a few partisan breadcrumbs.
Is there a pain threshold they hope to achieve at which point the people they are punishing take it out on someone else? A sort of shutdown Stockholm syndrome.
What sort of strategy for America is that? We hurt you until we get what we want, even when most of it is not in the best interest of Americans and, in fact, costs them more of their hard-earned dollars?
I don’t see it working but they’ cling bitterly to the idea, even after getting owned on live TV.
