(03-05-2021 11:26 AM)fsquid Wrote:  Funny that these new income limits hurt the people that voted for those two new Senators in GA. Funny.

Mitch totally screwed the pooch on this. He should have gotten the senate to rewrite the $600 bill to make it a bigger payment to everybody and get rid of the pork. Then he would have staked out a position that he could go to war on, including those two Georgia runoffs. My guess is that you give the average Georgian a choice of, "You can have $2,000, or you can have $600 and we dump a bunch of cash into the Kennedy Center," he/she doesn't spend much time on that decision.

After November 3, 2020, those two Georgia senate seats became the two most important elections for at least the next two years, and republicans led by Mitch did everything they could to blow both of them. I said before the election that my ideal result would have been for Amy McGrath to upset Mitch but for republicans to hold the senate. If she had, I just might have gotten that result. If I were a republican senator today (and I'm neither a republican nor a senator, fortunately or unfortunately), I would be doing everything I could to work a deal where Joe Manchin switched parties in exchange for the resulting majority leader spot. And I frankly don't know which is more important for republicans--getting the majority or dumping Mitch.