Saturday, May 16, 2020

What was Nancy Pelosi's motivation?

This week the United States House of Representative voted on and passed a 3 Trillion dollar bill.

There is no chance the bill clears the United States Senate and even if it did President Trump has vowed to veto it.

Nancy Pelosi knew this bill would never make it through the Senate or across the President's desk so why did she present it anyway?

As I pondered this certain pieces of the puzzle began falling into place, at least in my mind.

* Speaker Pelosi did not have the House in session for weeks.
* This bill is 1800 pages long - that's really long. The longest Harry Potter book only has 776 pages.
* This was a strictly partisan bill with no input from the Republicans
* How long does it take to write 1800 pages ...

That's the point in the thought process where bells began to ding.

Obviously Nancy Pelosi did not author this bill by herself.  So just who did contribute to its writing?

Well, I believe the answer lies in what is included in the bill and from there it is a very short leap to understanding why this bill with almost no hope of making it through the Senate and across the President's desk was brought to the House of Representatives for a vote anyway.

Contained in the bill is money for a litany of special interest groups.  There is funding for abortions, illegal immigrants, college tuition forgiveness and ... well, you get the idea.  And cannabis was mentioned 68 times, far more than the word jobs was mentioned. Any and every group who have traditionally voted democrat has mention in this $3 Trillion dollar bill.  That's the key to understanding why Nancy Pelosi presented a bill with virtually no hope of making through the process.

And lobbyists of each group representing the democrat base wrote their own portion of the bill.

This was a campaign move.

I have no empirical proof for this, but it seems to me there is a lot more enthusiasm and energy around Trump than there is around Biden.  The way this election is shaping up I suspect voter turnout will not be strong. And if I am correct on this, and even if I am not correct about this,  Pelosi and the Democrats have to figure out a way to pump energy into Biden's campaign to get their base vote to go to the polls.  How better to do that than introduce a bill promising money, lots of money, and having them construct their own portions of the bill?

The message is clear, Vote Democrat and when we also control the Senate and the White House with your help in the election we will then push through everything proposed in this bill you helped write.

There's Pelosi's motivation for introducing a bill she surely knew had no chance of making it through the process.

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