Welcome, as the saying goes, to the weekend.
There is lots of cool stuff happening. A week from tomorrow the GOAT, Brady, goes up against Mahomes in the SuperBowl. Just one day later the trial of Donald John Trump, a private citizen, will commence in the US Senate. The Democrats are going all out to tarnish Trump beyond repair. But there is a problem, and it relates to something happening right now:
The Democrats are desperate to pass their bloated $1.9T porkulous bill just as soon as possible. Biden has said it must pass, with or without Republican support. Actually Republicans do support those portions of the bill which seek to help Americans devastated by the pandemic. But as you would anticipate, the bill itself is a Christmas tree of Democrat party BS spending. And the Democrats have steadfastly refused to split the bill up so as to allow bipartisan support for provisions relating only to the pandemic.
All that has left Democrat strategists with a legislative race condition. It they do not pass the porkulous before February eighth, the Senate will be consumed with their Trump trial, which is of indeterminate length and might not end as early as Democrats hope. Meanwhile, of course, the porkulous would languish if not passed before the trial gets underway.
Now to be fair, the trial is as phony as a $3 bill. Democrats will preside, not the Chief Justice as would be the case were the trial on the level. So Democrats might, indeed, be positioned to hurry things along by means of cheating and one-sided rulings from the Chair, which they control. Democrat expertise, when it comes to such things, is unquestioned.
But you never know what Trump might have prepared. After all, he was never even given an opportunity to present a case during the one-day House impeachment fiasco. There could be things never before revealed which might consume time unanticipated by the Democrat impeachment machine.
Bottom line, there is no need to wait a week for the drama to commence. Democrats right now need to pass the porkulous ASAP. And the budget reconciliation process needed to do that with only 51 votes is itself time consuming. I hope the Republicans will fight them, and delay them, at every twist and turn. But Republicans are such hopeless wusses and cowards. Only God knows how strenuously they will resist.