By Miss Kubelik
At one point this morning, Democrats may have wondered if the Senate was going to pass the $2,000 COVID relief checks legislation that Benedict Donald "wants" — just so Team McConnell could claim the credit and have the American people believe that Republicans care.
After all, endangered Georgia Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler came out in favor of the bigger checks, joined by Baby Marco Rubio (who is probably trying to deflect the dragging he's gotten from receiving the coronavirus vaccine) and Josh Hawley (who wants to run for President in 2024). Four Republicans down, eight to go for passage.
Except Mitch McConnell has blocked it. At least, for now. Perhaps he just needed some space so he could take a step back and figure out how screwed he is. Or is he?
Maybe it's Perdue and Loeffler who are. Their Democratic opponents, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, have been agitating for larger relief checks for days, so if Perdue and Loeffler will have caved on the $2k without getting it, they'll look bad. (Never mind that after they've spent months screaming about "socialism," suddenly they're for it.) And Benedict Donald is scheduled to make a campaign stop for them on Monday. What could possibly go wrong?
Perhaps we owe Bernie Sanders, whom we just groused about, a thank-you for potentially keeping the Senate in session this weekend (and Perdue and Loeffler in Washington instead of at home campaigning).
Stay tuned. But here's the big question so far: Trump is on the golf course. But once he hears that Mitch blocked the bill, will he mean-tweet? If not, the pointless theatrics are over. We cats HISS.
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