Greetings from New Jersey, formerly the Garden State, and currently the State of confusion and quarantine.  The Wuhan “Kung” Flu, and our proximity to New York City, has us in lock-down mode, “stay at home,” most businesses shuttered.  That hasn’t stopped New Jerseyans  from interacting though.

We are a hearty breed.  While we languish at home, watching the stock market shed one third of its value, while our life savings disappear before our eyes, and while thousands of  businesses are gone forever, we can take solace in the fact that Congress is diligently working on the problem.  God help us.  With the House of Representatives mercifully not in session, the Senate, the greatest deliberative body on the face of the Earth (by its own admission) came riding to the rescue.  Never fear.  The Senate will take charge.  However, as things turned out, instead of the U.S. Cavalry, we got –

That’s right, Faccia di Cazzo, Chuck Schumer, and his merry band of Bolsheviks, a/k/a the Democrat Caucus, fiddled while the virus burned through America.  The Senate had a relief bill, a bill, just for the record, that Senate Democrats co-wrote.  The bill was to provide $1 trillion in aid, or $1.4 trillion, or $2 trillion, which would provide for direct payments to unemployed people, extend unemployment insurance, defer loan payments, and provide aid to industries hardest hit by the virus, like the airlines and cruiselines.  All of these things were in the bill last weekend, but then a strange thing happened.  Nancy Pelosi flew in on her broom, false teeth clicking, and decided to kill the Senate bill, which Democrats filibustered Sunday night.  Schumer announced that no Democrat would support it because the bill “provides no aid for workers.”  Apparently checks for $3,000 directly to workers don’t count, so that was a Democrat lie.  Then Schumer criticized aid to companies, as “a slush fund” for the rich.  Another lie.  How is that Democrats won’t accept that if the company goes under, workers will have no job to go back to.  Then it got worse.  Nancy Pelosi’s House Socialists saw an opportunity.  As Democrat House Whip James Clyburn put it, the bill was “a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.”  Remember, this at a time when millions are suddenly unemployed, tens of thousands are being infected with the Wuhan virus, hospitals are awaiting vital funding, and hundreds a day are dying.  It turned out the Democrat vision for America is America as Venezuela.  The Democrats saw the already bloated virus bill, as people sicken and die, and our economy faces its worst challenge since the Great Depression, as an opportunity to blackmail the nation into enacting all the loony, left-wing, Communist bullshit they have been peddling since Il Duce Obama came on the scene.  O.K., Pelosi and Schumer said, we’ll let you have money for hospitals, we’ll let you send checks to workers, we’ll even let you save large and small businesses to deal with this virus thing, but here’s what we demand: 1. Corporate pay statistics by race and race statistics for corporate boards of companies receiving assistance; 2. Bail out all current debt of the Postal Service (the one entity still in business); 3. early voting in all States; 4.  same day voter registration; 5. a $10,000, or $30,000 bailout for student loans; 6. For companies accepting assistance, 1/3 of board members must be chosen by workers, meaning unions  (like the Soviet Union?); 7. expand union collective bargaining; 8. Full offset of airline emissions by 2025 (Green New Deal); 9. Greenhouse gas statistics for individual flights; 10. Pensions for community newspaper employees; 11. $15 minimum wage at companies receiving assistance (so long small business); 12. Permanent paid leave at companies receiving assistance.  Also, $35 million for the Kennedy Center, and oh yes, full funding for Planned Parenthood.  This bullcrap so outraged Mitch McConnell that his lips actually moved when he spoke, “Democrats won’t let us fund hospitals or save small businesses until they get to dust off the Green New Deal.  This has got to stop.  And today is the day it has to stop.  The country is out of time.”  Susan Collins, no conservative stalwart, warned that Democrats were “playing with fire.”  Tom Cotton was less genteel, shouting, “Come on, this is bullshit!”  Louisiana Senator John Kennedy hit the nail on the head, “You know what the American people are thinking right now, Mr. President?  They are thinking that this country was founded by geniuses, but it is being run by a bunch of idiots.”  Amen brother.  As this is written, the Senate has agreed on and passed a $2.2 trillion bill.  It’s been suggested that the Democrats, namely Pelosi, caved on their Socialist wishlist,  but we haven’t seen all the details.  Pelosi just said she is “open” to the Senate plan, “America is facing a grave health crisis with a serious impact on our economy.  I salute the strong leadership of Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats.”  Pelosi can put all the lipstick she wants on that pig, but it’s still a pig, and she’s still the Queen of Pork Barrel politics.  The truth is Pelosi and the repulsive Democrats used an unprecedented public health emergency to try to rob the American taxpayers.  And it wasn’t just the AOC crazy wing of the Democrat Party.  Every Democrat in the Senate voted twice to kill the Senate bill to permit the attempted Socialist holdup.  Next time they tell you about “moderate” Democrats, don’t believe it.  Every one of the bastards was complicit in the attempted hijack.  And it’s not over yet.  The Senate has voted, but the House has to approve the bill.  Just one obstructive imbecile, former Republican Jason Amash has applied for the job, can delay all the aid, and force House members to travel back to D.C.  Even I didn’t think Democrats could stoop so low.  They’re creating a panic that they want to continue.  A broken economy and lots of dead people is good for Democrat election chances – or so they assume.  They claim the President is mishandling the crisis, but they offer no alternatives.  Just lies.  If they’ll exploit a dire emergency, they’ll stop at nothing.  When you go to the polls remember, Democrats lied and people died.