Jayapal: COVID-19 'suffering' gives Democrats 'leverage' in Congress

Senor Wences lookalike Rep. Pramila Jayapal (Dummy-WA) told Vox on Wednesday that the "enormous suffering" that has already killed over 74,000 Americans and millions more across the globe, gives Democrats leverage on legislation addressing the coronavirus.

"When you think about traditional situations of crisis … whoever the ruling party is in the White House, that individual has this enormous opportunity to bring people together because that's what people want in a crisis," Jayapal callously said to the leftist outlet.

"None of that has happened…. For me, the leverage is that there is enormous suffering, and if we do not respond with the boldness and the scale that this crisis demands, then that suffering will continue."

Jayapal faced criticism from conservatives in April when she coldly warned Democrats that they were "giving away leverage" if they passed a clean bill replenishing the Paycheck Protection Program, which provides forgivable loans to small businesses reeling from the pandemic. A so-called clean bill is one in which extraneous garbage is kept out and only relevant legislation is written into it. Thus, there is no pork in the bill that tends to hold passage up.

So Democrats, in the spirit of caring less for those they represent and more for future votes, liberal policies and special interests, held up funding for weeks before they agreed to a $484 billion bill that also included additional aid for hospitals and testing.

Jayapal, who never had a thought to call her own, echoed previous calls from Democrats, including California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC), to see the deadly disease as an opportunity to push their own agendas rather than expeditiously deal with the pandemic.

Jayapal defended her earlier reference to leverage, calling the Republican response to the pandemic insufficient.

"How do we respond to the scale of the suffering? If we are just responding to one piece of it, but we are giving away the thing that Republicans are sort of hanging their hat on, then what brings them back to the table for negotiation?" she asked. "I think it’s important for us to not allow ourselves to be pulled into a place where we don’t define the agenda, given that we are the ones that seem to be put in the position of really defining what the solution is going to land on."

The only agenda should be that of helping the nation deal with the COVID-19 coronavirus. Giving help to first responders, manufacturing masks and PPEs, aiding hospitals, and developing testing and a vaccine as well as financially helping those whose jobs were put aside for now by the government. They owe that to the people. Not a handout to the Kennedy Center where Nancy "Hands-a-Dancing" Pelosi is on the board.

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More than 74,000 Americans have died, and 33 million people have lost their jobs in the past two months. This should not be seen as a damn opportunity.


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