President Biden's proposed covid relief bill would cost an estimated 1.9 trillion dollars and
that price tag has caused an outbreak of "the vapors" among Congressional Republicans as many soak their Depends and threaten to hold their breath till they turn blue. Before anyone considers pretending to shed invisible tears for these moral pygmies, it might be appropriate to put this in context.
If that price tag amount of 1.9 trillion dollars sounds familiar, that's because it was the price tag on the Trump tax cut just a couple of years ago. You surely remember. that tax cut. Nearly all of the tax relief went to the VERY wealthy who were in dire need of help in financing their yachts, their private jets and their second homes.
The species known as "Republicanus hypocritus" had no problem with THAT 1.9 trillion dollar price tag. They were not concerned with that deficit thingy back then. They had earned the millions in political contributions they had raked in from corporations and billionaires and they as happy as hogs in slop.
Now, however, this money is intended to benefit people who are unemployed through no fault of their own and they need it to pay the mortgage or rent; to buy necessary prescriptions; to EAT---for crying out loud! These people rarely have money for large political contributions.
Smile, Mitch and company, we are taking a picture of this. There will never be a clearer picture of "The Difference Between The Parties".
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They wouldn't "turn blue" if they held their collective breaths for an hour. 
