Grim Reaper is now Grim Weeper...McConnell is very, very unhappy with the "partisan" $1400 checks

[Miles Archer]

Not a single Senate Republican voted to advance the stimulus package that would give most Americans a $1,400 one-time check

"They've chosen a totally partisan path," Kentucky Sen. and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told The Times about Senate Democrats.

McConnell used reconciliation to pass both tax cuts during his time as Majority Leader. He also employed the measure in a failed attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

https://news.yahoo.com/not-single-senate-republican-voted-035107158.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

[bottomofthehill]

1. Really, did President Biden put his name on them

[bottomofthehill]

2. Or for that matter, hold them up

So he could print his name on them

[Blue Owl]

3. Hope he drowns in his tears

[Crunchy Frog]

4. I'm sure that all patriotic Republicans who get checks

will happily send theirs to the RNC as donations, so so Mitch should be happy. They should start running ads right now.

I'm sure that all the R voters will comply.

[Miles Archer]

17. I posted something very similar to that on Facebook

I mean, PATRIOTIC Republicans should NOT accept those checks, because their party doesn't want them to have them. They should either forward them to their nearest Republican elected official, or perhaps even to Trump himself at Mar-a-Lago.

[Progressive Jones]

5. What's it going to take to get the GOP to just get out of the way???

Sure, get them out in elections, but the American People can't wait for that gamble.

[Miles Archer]

18. It will take 2022.

If Dems capture a Republican-proof margin in the House and Senate, the following two years will be nothing more than the Republican wailing and gnashing of teeth. As long as we hold the razor-thin margin we have in the Senate, they will game the system, relentlessly, in every way they can. We need a few more Stacey Abrams on the ground when the midterms are near. What she accomplished in Georgia needs to happen in every state where Republicans are on the ballot.

[Eyeball_Kid]

6. If Biden wants to send McConnell into retirement,

he needs to get Schumer to kill the filibuster.

[mr_lebowski]

7. Which is totally different from what you've done for the last 10 years, right Moscow Mitch?

The name Merrick Garland ring any bells?

How about '1-Term President'?

[OnDoutside]

8. Surely there should be huge attack ads on Marie Antoinette McConnell

showing his millionaire lifestyle, while ordinary Americans are homeless ?

[Skittles]

9. fuckers were all on board when it was massive tax cuts for the wealthy

FUCK THEM

[monkeyman1]

10. Putin 's brother in law - it's a family thing !

[sakabatou]

11. Go fuck yourself, McConnell

[blue-wave]

13. I second that motion!

The asshole is playing the "cry me a river" game now. We need real men and women who are real Americans in the senate. McConnell comes up short in those regards.

[cstanleytech]

12. Since Moscow Mitch used reconciliation to pass tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations can

the Democrats then use it to raise it?
After all the Republicans will never support us in doing it even though it should be done so why not use the same tool they did?

[calimary]

14. Well, that whole "turnabout is fair play" thing is sounding

better and better.

[EndlessWire]

15. I don't think it's about

$1,400. The new Minority Leader and all his buddies are upset at the change in power. It's still Party Over Country for them.

What's it to them? We have watched as the numbers changed back and forth, up and down, as time passes. I am not an economist, but I have a feeling that the true number needed was Pelosi's 3 trillion dollar mark. The Dems have compromised enough. Enough is enough.

Pass the stimulus without the Republicans, who would rather not give a stinking dime to poor people in trouble. If Joe was really working it, he'd have the Dem's pass the bill with far, far more money than he was willing to compromise with.

So, it's considered partisan? TOO BAD. We don't like you, anyway.

[Takket]

16. $1400 is not partisan

Many GOP in the House voted for it and drumpf also supported it. It would have passed the previous senate if McConnell didn’t bloke a vote on it.

$1400 is absolutely bipartisan.

[roamer65]

19. If I get one, I'll spend it.

Push it right into the economy to help get the velocity of money figure up.

The velocity of money figure is abysmally low right now.

Taxation of the rich would help lift it as well.

[ooky]

20. What a surprise

that no Senate Republicans voted for the $1400. I guess the voters in Georgia who wanted the money were on to what Republican senators would do.