Political Quotes

“the closer we get to an election, the sillier it gets here in Leader McConnell's Senate. All week, the Republican majority has scheduled stunt votes on supposed COVID relief bills that are all, in reality, designed to fail. Yesterday, the leader moved to table his own bill so the Republicans could vote against tabling it. Let me repeat that because that is what is happening here. It is hard to believe that this is supposedly the greatest debate Chamber in the country or in the world. Leader McConnell moved to table his own bill so the Republicans could then vote against tabling it. That is what the Republican majority thinks passes for a serious attempt at a COVID relief bill in this Republican Senate when people are suffering so badly--games, games when people are suffering. The truth is the Republican leader needed that vote to fail because, if the Senate actually proceeded to a real bill, it might mess up the timing of the Republican plan to confirm Judge Barrett to the Supreme Court. Now, think of that for a moment. The Republican majority sets up a fake vote on COVID relief because if, God forbid, the Senate actually considered a real bill to do something real about this overwhelming COVID crisis, it might delay their Supreme Court nominee they are rushing through in a process that can only be declared as abusive to the Senate.…”