You've Got to Be Kidding?

Mitch McConnell Worries COVID Relief Checks Will Make Folks Too Lazy to Work:   During an appearance on Fox News, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told host Martha MacCallum that he opposes extending unemployment benefits and providing $1400 COVID relief checks for Americans, because people may decide not to go back to work. Point well taken Mitch!   Hell, nearly everyone I know retired almost immediately after getting that last $600 relief payment a few months ago.   I can still hear them shouting at the top of their lungs “I’ll never have to work again!”   The ugly truth is, we’ll all be sipping piña coladas at the beach in Cancun right now - if Ted Cruz hadn’t already booked most of the available hotel rooms.   And, God forbid, that we end up getting yet another $1400 in this new COVID relief bill.   Hell, we’d all be purchasing luxury yachts. That said, you can’t really blame old Mitch for having an attitude like that.  After all,...

Pat Robertson Calls COVID Relief Bill a Socialist Plot to Destroy America:   On his 700 Club program, Pat Robertson is now claiming that American families don’t really need any financial help from the government and that President Biden's 1.9 trillion COVID relief bill is all part of an effort to turn our country into a socialist nation and to bankrupt America. Gee, is it just me, or do poor old Pat’s grifting skills seem to be slipping a bit?  I mean, hasn’t it even occurred to him that once his loyal flock receives their COVID Relief checks, they can relieve themselves of all that “sinful” government money - simply by sending it his way?  That said, I can’t think of anything more enjoyable for people struggling to make ends meet through no fault of their own, than getting “trickle - down economics” lessons from a “Multi-Millionaire Grifter for Jesus” - who pays no taxes whatsoever.  Now, to be completely honest, I was rather surprised to learn that Pat Robe...