Reportedly, Republican Senators are mad at Trump’s hand-picked Fed chair Jerome Powell:
On the call, several GOP senators were sharply critical of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell[,] saying he had gone too far in demanding Congress approve sweeping economic relief[,] and that he went out of his lane in making his demands publicly known, according to two sources. [CNN/Politics]
First, I had to infer those commas, above; without them, the intent of the sentence is reversed, and that didn’t make a lot of sense.
That said, Chairman Powell should retort that, since there’s no one in that lane, he felt it was his duty to try to direct things.
A little humiliation for those damn idlers in the Senate.
While it’s difficult to predict exactly which debacles will result from the pathology of magical thinking that has spread throughout the legion of GOP Senators, it’s not particularly surprising that they’ve spurned their top line responsibilities in favor of installing a partisan justice. Just as their tax reform promises were never fulfilled, and their belief that the virus will disappear has proven false, they have a belief that their political souls will be saved if they can just get Judge Barrett confirmed to SCOTUS, that all will be well. Even in the face of polls that say that most Americans believe the winner of the upcoming election should nominate the next Justice.
Magical thinking. It’ll destroy the souls of the GOP Members of Congress. And it’ll destroy the lives of countless Americans, as well.
