McConnell says Americans are too dumb to understand why COVID relief is actually bad

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Mitch is a bitter elderly man who needs to put himself out to pasture.

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McConnell says Americans are too dumb to understand why COVID relief is actually bad
By
Josh Israel -
March 12, 2021 10:25 AM



Polls show Americans know what's in the American Rescue Plan and like it.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday that the American people only support President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan because they are clueless about what it contains. But polling shows that the public strongly backs the key provisions of the American Rescue Plan, which McConnell and his caucus spent two months trying unsuccessfully to defeat.

In an interview on "PBS NewsHour," McConnell (R-KY) was asked why 70% of Americans back the bill he called the worst piece of legislation he'd seen enacted during his more than 36 years in the Senate.

"I'm not surprised that the American public's initial reaction to this, before they know what's in it, would be positive," he answered. "I mean, the thought of many Americans getting a $1,400 check, why would they not like that?"
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He then argued that voters are widely uninformed about the law's provisions. "I understand why the American people's initial response to this is positive. What they do not know is how much of the bill has nothing to do with the pandemic. Less than 1% of it deals with vaccinations. Only about 9% of it deals with health care."

McConnell's inaccurate figures completely omit hundreds of billions of dollars in funding to help states and localities deal with public health.

McConnell is correct that the $1,400 checks, which he singlehandedly blocked in December, when he was the Senate majority leader, are popular. But he is wrong to suggest the rest of what's in the $1.9 trillion plan is somehow a mysterious secret.

In January, when Biden announced the plan, he was clear about the many ways it would be aimed at curbing the coronavirus pandemic and rescuing the economy. It included tax cuts of more than $3,000 for the average American; unemployment benefits; $350 billion for cash-strapped state and local governments; more than $125 billion to support a return to in-person instruction at schools; and tens of billions of dollars for virus testing and vaccination.

McConnell and his GOP Senate minority caucus spent two months attacking the bill...........................................

[bahboo]

1. just die and get it the fuck over with....

[tandem5]

8. These people never seem to die. Cheney, for example,

is a patchwork of bionic parts and he's plugging along.

[FlyingPiggy]

2. the success and power of the covid relief must be really pissing him off.

people like mcconnell never should have been elected. What a horrible human being.

[bluestarone]

3. Wish he would just DIE so

We could raise our flags HIGHER!!

[Solly Mack]

4. McConnell will die a lying piece of shit.

[roamer65]

5. McConnell is one of those people if you were to hit them with a car by accident...

you are REALLY tempted to shove the car into “R”.

[RKP5637]

6. And this from Moscow Mitch! Not surprised! n/t

[Midnight Writer]

7. If you put a bill cutting the same amount from inheritance taxes Mitch would pop a chubby.

[peggysue2]

9. McConnell and the rest of his Republican crew are terrified this will work

Not only work but clobber Covid into submission while sending the economy into super-positive directions.

Oh Noes, they've been whining. If we have a boom economy, it has nothing to do with the infusion of money into the system. It's all about us stingy Republicans who don't give a tinker's ass about families waiting in mile-long food banks or kids living in poverty. Unemployment? It's all about lazy, good-for-nothings who want nothing better than being on the dole. We're for American bootstraps and unequal playing fields. It's the American, Republican way. Can't we get a little love, here???

Bend your ear. You can hear the funeral dirge!

This bill, this singular bill has the potential of completely undoing Republican economic ideology, as in give to the rich, steal from the poor and middle-class. It could be the final death knell for trickle-down economic theory and the adherence of small, non-existent government.

The American people need help. They want help and they're willing to accept that help from their own government.

McConnell knows that. And thus far, the distractions of Dr. Suess, Mr. Potato Head, Pepe LePew and Paw-gate have not worked. Even Rick Scott, the wealthy Senator form Florida can't sell the message of all Republicans returning the funds. He just sounds silly and ridiculous. Even his own odious governor rejects the suggestion.

Biden is already making McConnell sweat. How sweet is that?

[asiliveandbreathe]

10. You just hold that thought moscowmitch..see, many people DO

know some of what is in the ARP...when Biden's Blitz is finished, President Biden, Flotus Dr. Biden, VP Harris, First Gentleman, and others who are fanning out across the country..will make sure many more people understand the benefits and features of the ARP...

No wonder republicans are twisting, undies in a bunch twisting, and on the run..soon to be pushed from sea to shining sea..sucks to be in the minority..eh mitchy...