McConnell decides Senate is done working after ramming through Supreme Court justice

[turbinetree]

By Josh Israel -October 27, 2020 10:21 AM

They've accomplished nothing on COVID relief.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sent the Senate home on Monday night, without any action on COVID-19 relief.

After ramming through the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to a lifetime Supreme Court appointment, the Republican majority adjourned the Senate until Nov. 9. This will mean no action to address the pandemic and the economic crisis it has caused until after the election, at the earliest.

In May, the Democratic House of Representatives passed a $3 trillion emergency package, providing $75 billion for coronavirus treatment, testing, and tracing, funds for child care, hazard pay for essential workers, and help for cash-strapped states and localities struggling to pay for core services. McConnell (R-KY) has ridiculed it as "not serious," declared it "dead on arrival," and blocked any action on it for more than five months.

For much of that time, McConnell dismissed calls to pass any additional legislation. In August, he bragged that his caucus' inaction was "the reasonable thing to do" because it "allowed us to learn the coronavirus didn't mysteriously disappear." The following month, he offered a "skinny" $500-billion bill that included poison pill provisions that were unpalatable to Democrats, including stripping employees of their right to sue if they get sick and funneling public money to private and parochial schools. It went nowhere.

https://americanindependent.com/mcconnell-sends-senate-home-covid-19-relief-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett/

Hey Kentucky do you think you deserve better than this asshole and the country deserves better, than this ratfucking asshole he really is a psychopath, he put party over country, the entire country is laterally dying, and he didn't give a shit, so that he could have power................

[raccoon]

1. The fact that many Americans desperately need assistance for

Food , housing, and other necessities makes no difference to McTurtle.

[bdamomma]

2. he is accomplice

to CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

This monster needs to go.

[renate]

3. what's in this for him? I don't get it

This certainly doesn't increase the odds of the GOP continuing to hold the Senate. Kentucky will keep him but he'll lose his power.

Unless he knows something we don't know.

[maxsolomon]

4. "Fiscal responsibility" appeals to the undecided flibberdigibbet.

But that undecided flibberdigibbet would never know one way or the other that the Senate took action.

McConnell knows what we know: he's going to lose control. He DGAF about anything but power.

He won the SCOTUS battle, he's not going to give the Dems (or Trump) a win this close to 11/3.