Democrats must spike the football!

[clutterbox1830]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/10/opinions/stimulus-vote-covid-filipovic/index.html

The House passed the $1.9 trillion bill, overwhelmingly thanks to Democrats. Not a single Senate or House Republican voted for the bill, and one Democrat, Rep. Jared Golden of Maine, voted against it.
The relief package is groundbreaking: It sends $1,400 stimulus checks to close to 90% of American households, directs billions to small businesses and schools, pours necessary resources into vaccine distribution, extends unemployment benefits and offers parents an unprecedented child allowance -- a cash benefit for families with children. No, it's not everything progressives wanted. But it's the most ambitious cash assistance plan I've seen in my lifetime.
It didn't come sooner, though, because Republicans were in charge until seven weeks ago. And Democrats should remind voters of exactly that. Trump and the GOP passed tax cuts in 2017 that disproportionately helped the wealthiest, but when the pandemic hit in 2020, they were out to lunch. Public health messaging was garbled and inconsistent. The President spread dangerous and deadly false information. When the Republican Party did put forward a stimulus bill that sent out cash payments and provided much-needed support for small businesses and communities, Democrats were on board: They supported the bill because it was the right thing to do for a country in crisis.
But now, a year into a deadly pandemic that has killed more than 520,000 Americans -- more than all the wars of the past 100 years combined -- and left hundreds of thousands of more without jobs, homes or basic stability, Republicans are refusing to come to the rescue.
Democrats have, which is why Americans have gotten the additional help we needed. That's the message Democrats need to hammer home as they take well-earned credit for what they've achieved here.


Taking credit isn't just so Democrats can pat themselves on the back; it's so the public understands how and why this happened. Many Americans do not pay close attention to politics, and don't necessarily tie the decisions made in Washington to the realities of their day-to-day lives. Democrats need to connect those dots for them, loudly and repeatedly, so that voters can understand what's at stake in elections and what both parties truly stand for.

In short, Democrats and the White House must do this. Americans people's memory is so short and some people need to made aware the Democratic party are the only ones looking out for their best interests. Also, a lot of people are turned off of all political news and no nothing about this bill that just pay. Some people are frankly unintelligent and thought Donald Trump personally gave them the stimulus check last time. Democrats should go on all network lambasting all Republicans for not helping anyone except corporations.

[Beakybird]

1. I was saying that the check stub should list who voted for it and who voted against it.

With the party after the name.

[Irish_Dem]

2. GOP is trying to take credit, Dems need to do some PR.

[msongs]

4. a lot of pR starting the moment biden signs the bill into law nt

[dem4decades]

3. I agree, the Republicans take credit for shit they didn't do, the least we can do

Is take credit for the things we did do.

[Lettuce Be]

5. I agree. This is not the time for modesty. Go out there and crow and crow and crow some more.

How are voters supposed to remember in 2022 if we do not make a huge deal out of the fact not a single solitary republican voted for the American Rescue Plan. I think his name should have been on the stupid checks too -- since without it, idiots will claim he can't be president because he didn't sign! LOL

[Blue Owl]

6. And dunk on Diarrhea Donny