Are You Suffering During the Pandemic?
By: Stephen Sovie
Tags: Politics, Mitch Mcconnell, Covid 19 Crisis, Healthcare, Congress

Are You Suffering During the Pandemic?

This is the man who refuses to help you!

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As much as I hate Donald Trump I hate Mitch McConnell more. As the House Majority Leader, he has been Trump’s chief enabler. He has allowed Trump to run roughshod over the Constitution and our democracy. He could have stopped all of the crimes, corruption, and destruction caused by the Trump administration, but he didn’t. He has let Trump defy the rule of law, destroy our alliances, and carry out racist policies on immigration and programs affecting many of our own citizens. As Trump attacked Blacks, Mexicans, Muslims, Native Americans, Gold Star families, the military, and our Constitution, he has said nothing. He hasn’t even admitted that Biden has won the election!

During Obama’s first term McConnell is famous for saying, “the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president”. And so he followed up in Obama’s second term by blocking just about everything Obama tried to do, including the seating of federal court judges and the nomination of Merrick Garland for a Supreme Court vacancy because it was too close to the election ( 8 months away). He insisted the next president should choose the person to fill the vacancy, and then he changed his mind when he and Trump rushed through a thoroughly unqualified nominee after Ruth Bader Ginsberg died.

Ever since Obamacare was passed to help the millions of Americans who had no health insurance coverage, McConnell and the GOP have been fighting to destroy it, promising to replace it with a new and better plan. It’s been a hell of a long time and the Republicans still don’t have a plan.

Now that we’re in the midst of a pandemic, with 14 million Americans sick and over 273 thousand deaths, McConnell is still trying to destroy Obamacare and has refused to help the millions of people out of work put food on their tables and pay for healthcare. While countries such as Canada have given stimulus checks to their citizens each month for periods of 4 months or more the United States has given a $1200 check to each adult, to cover food, clothing, rent, heat, medical care, gas, and the necessities of everyday life to cover the period from April 2020 until whenever the pandemic is over or until we receive additional assistance.

With the numbers of unemployed increasing weekly and the number of evictions increasing rapidly the American people are in dire need of help from our government. While Trump has relinquished his role in providing leadership during the pandemic, McConnell has fought tooth and nail to prevent the passage of any new stimulus packages. Why? He wants to assure that businesses and corporations will not be held accountable if they do not offer adequate protection from Covid-19 for their employees!

McConnell represents the state of Kentucky, one of the poorest states in the country, which also ranks among the lowest in regards to education and healthcare. He is one of the richest members of Congress from one of the poorest states in the country! If he hasn’t done anything to help the people of Kentucky, why should we think he will do anything for the rest of the country!

With the election of Biden to be our next President, McConnell and the GOP have already signaled that they will block Biden’s cabinet appointments as well as any legislation, he presents to Congress. The success of Biden’s administration, our fight against the pandemic, and the health of our nation’s citizens cannot be held in the hands of Mitch McConnell. Our hopes now hinge on the runoff elections in Georgia, where two Democrats have a chance of not only winning the election but flipping control of the Senate. It’s time for Mitch McConnell to go.