Once again, thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to the Hullabaloo Happy Hollandaise fundraiser so far. It truly means the world to me. And to those of you who can’t contribute anything please believe me when I say I’m extremely grateful for my readership regardless. It’s a labor of love here and all of us are honored to be part of this great political conversation. Thank you for coming by and reading and sharing what we write.
Donald Trump is acting crazier than ever and today we were reminded that even though he will be gone soon, we aren’t out of the woods. He’s plotting a coup inside the White House with Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn. I’m not kidding. They are reporting that he’s becoming more unhinged by the day. Luckily, White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Chief of Staff Mark Meadows seem to be able to contain him so far, but who knows whether he will do something dangerously loony before he goes?
Nonetheless, he will be leaving the White House in a month. Thank God. But our problems are far from over as we can see by the amount of sabotage Trump GOP collaborators are already preparing. They not only stonewalled the relief package for months, now that we are down to the wire they have decided to push a poison pill at the last minute to cripple the Biden administration’s ability to deal with the economic crisis in the spring.
Politico reported that the Toomey Fed language “would curtail the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending authority in the economic relief deal taking shape, a move that would seal off major avenues of future aid without congressional action.”
In other words, there will be no more future federal aid if Republicans control the Senate as there is a 50/50 chance they will. They are intent upon forcing austerity policies on the Biden administration at a time when it will strangle the economic recovery. The only thing they care about is winning the 2022 elections and ensuring that Biden’s presidency is a failure.
We are in for a rough time, especially if McConnell maintains control of the Senate. It will be different in character than these last four years. In some ways it will be more familiar but it’s important to recognize that today’s Republican Party has been radicalized beyond even what we came to expect of is during the Bush years and the Gingrich revolution. The Trump era has pushed them completely over the edge. They are both in thrall to a brainwashed cult and ruthlessly dedicated to maintaining power by any means necessary.
It’s going to be a very bumpy ride, I’m afraid. And we will be here trying to make sense of it all and hopefully help you sort out what’s going on as well. If you’d like to help us keep the lights on here, you can throw a few coins into the old Hullabaloo Christmas stocking by clicking on the buttons below or using the snail mail address on the left column.
And Happy Hollandaise everyone. We are in the midst of a tough, scary time but we do have each other. And remember, there are more of us than there are of them …
cheers,
digby