Channeling Thelma & Louise & ... Bain Capital

We all know how Thelma & Louise turned out. With the repugs in charge, 

America might have its T&L moment as well.

In a normal country, we wouldn’t need a second round of expanded unemployment insurance benefits. The back-of-the-envelope math lawmakers did in late March would have been sufficient to see us through a temporary lockdown — the time it took to scale up testing, contact tracing, and the emergency production of masks, gowns, and ventilators. By now, we’d be savoring the few summer evenings left before students return to campuses and the rest of us resume our anxious tiptoe toward November.

Instead, four month of relentless carnage later, we have four million coronavirus cases and counting, states around the country are going back into lockdown and the president has just released a new campaign ad decrying “the left’s assault on Goya.” (The bean company.)

Remember, Mitch, Mitt, Linsey and Hatch are covered. No problem so they can continue to not care until the pitchforks come out. IMHO, these unconscious bastards are playing a very dangerous game.

It gets better.

Mitt channeling his inner Bain days ... Think Dunkin Donuts

Shortly after publicly ditching one attack on Social Security—the payroll tax cut—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell confirmed Thursday that the Republican coronavirus relief package will include legislation sponsored by Sen. Mitt Romney that one advocacy group described as an “equally menacing” threat to the New Deal program.

The Utah Republican’s bill currently has 13 Senate co-sponsors, five of whom are members of the Democratic caucus. Last month, as Common Dreams reported, 30 House Democrats joined 30 of their Republican colleagues in endorsing the TRUST Act.

If passed, Romney’s bill would give the Treasury Department 45 days to deliver a report to Congress on America’s “endangered” trust funds. Congress would then set up one “rescue committee” per trust fund with a mandate to craft legislation that—in the words of Romney’s office—”restores solvency and otherwise improves each trust fund program.”

Legislation proposed by the committees would receive expedited consideration in the House and Senate—meaning no amendments would be permitted. Any bill would still need 60 votes to clear the upper chamber.

As George Carlin so famously said, "They coming for your Social Security Money, They want it bad so they can give to their rich Wall street friends, and they's get it because they one this fucking place."