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| Not a single Republican has cast a vote for COVID relief in 2021 as the world enters the second year of the Coronavirus Pandemic. |
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There is plenty of cause to feel betrayed by the Biden administration ranging from its rejection of student loan forgiveness, minimum wage surrender, to chopping promised survival checks.
But the entire Republican Party congressional delegation has just issued a resounding 'no' to every small business, American family and school suffering under the worst pandemic in modern history.
News that the Republicans did not muster a single vote on Feb 27 for Joe Biden's $1.9-Trillion American Rescue Plan shows the Grand Ole Party pursuing not just crazy, destructive policy, but also suicidal politics (H. R. 1319 Roll Call).
Biden's bill also provides critical funding "to dramatically increase our country’s sequencing,
surveillance, and outbreak analytics capacity at the levels demanded by
the crisis," in a nod to virus mutations and evolution, both processes as real and predictable as the misery and devastation already inflicted (White House).
What Republicans are doing is madness unrivaled, and worthy of comparisons to crazed religious states the world-over.
"It is worth sitting and actually considering how completely insane it is the COVID relief package passed the House of Representatives without a single Republican vote," said Saagar Enjeti of The Hill. "You might think this is just Washington politics as usual. But it actually shows how completely out-of-step the GOP is today with the general population."
Enjeti notes that 76 percent of the American people support the American Rescue Plan, including 60 percent of Republicans and 70 percent of independents (Williams, Morning Consult Poll).
So why wouldn't Republicans want to help with this crisis?
Because, seriously, the GOP is a crazy party.
If this band of anti-social nutcases were around in 1955, they would have opposed the Polio Vaccine, and if this same gang were alive in 1796, they would have branded Edward Jenner and the Small Pox Vaccine as liars and lies.
Meanwhile, the Republicans continue even to advocate against wearing masks, much less federal help.
In Wisconsin, vulnerable neighbors are effectively asking neighbors not to kill them in advocacy for masks and personal hygienic practices, (WKOW-TV, Facebook). Receptions to pleas on local media and social media have been warm and sympathetic, with the exception of the Republican Party of Wisconsin.
This is crazy time right at the moment when we as a country can least afford it.
From The Hill:
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