This editor has made no secret of his political crush on Hawaii rep Tulsi Gabbard. Today there’s more reason to crush on her. She posted a video laying out all the reasons she voted no on the so-called Covid relief bill.
“First of all, this bill was over 5,500 pages long,” she began. “We received the text of this bill at approximately 2:30 this afternoon, and we’re told we’d have to go and vote on it just a few hours later. There is no way that anybody in Congress had the opportunity or the time to go through and read this bill to know exactly what was in it. I’ve been here long enough to see how provisions are snuck into these bills literally in the dark of night, without any announcement, without telling anyone what is in it, and then rushed through in the manner that we have just seen tonight.”
She then goes into some of the items hidden in the text of the nearly $900 billion dollar bill. She said “the central part of this bill was supposed to be about providing direct COVID relief to the American people who are struggling and who need help the most.” But instead the bill “dished out hundreds of billions of dollars” to special interests, the military, and foreign countries while telling average Americans, “Here’s what’s left for you: You get 600 bucks.”
It’s really a shame my favorite democrat is retiring from Congress at the end of this term. We could use more like her.