Why are the Democrats being so politically incompetent about the stimulus checks?

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At first, they were saying that they would pass the 2k checks immediately, but then they backtracked and explained that they ackshually meant 1.4K, and the checks still haven’t been passed despite Biden promising that they would come within the first week. Are the Democrats trying to make themselves look incompetent and out of touch? Just pass the damn checks

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It was always $1,400. It was always increasing the original $600 to $2,000 by also giving out an additional $1,400. Quit rewriting history.

Then they shouldn’t have continued saying 2k after the 600 passed

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There are no broken promises.  The bill that AOC wrote was to change the $600 checks to $2000 checks by adding $1,400.  And we went around promising "if you elect us, we'll do that instead."  It was always $2,000 instead of $600, meaning $1,400 more.  Anyone who says otherwise has been suckered by the massive malicious gaslighting campaign by leftists more interested in attacking Biden than getting things done, or worse, knows it's BS but is partaking in the gaslighting themselves.

Ignoring the argument about what they actually meant (because not everyone follows politics closely and they could have thought they meant 2000 on top of the 600), wouldn’t it be a better move politically to do 2000 instead of 1400? What voters support 1400, but hate the idea of 2000 dollar checks so much that they abandon the Democrats for doing so?

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It's actually crazy popular -

https://twitter.com/cameron_easley/status/1364594544046661633

This doesn’t really disprove anything I said. People approve of passing 1400 dollar checks, but that doesn’t mean that they approve of how needlessly long it’s taking to do so

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They should just say $1400. Most people don't live and breathe this stuff, and it's reasonable to assume $2000 means just that, not $1400 because you have to subtract $600 that you got several months ago.

But all the Atlas brainers told me that literally every American follows politics closely and would know that 2k doesn’t mean 2k!

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Why is VBNMWEB being so politically clueless about the legislative process?

At first, they were expressing their anger at the checks being $1.4K instead of what they incorrectly assumed was $2K, but then after seemingly everybody on here informed them about how wrong they were on that point, they backtracked and explained that regardless of how much the checks are supposed to be worth, now they're just angry that a massive stimulus package wasn't written, marked-up, and passed in a week(!?!), despite seemingly everybody else on here actually knowing full well that the legislative process - y'know, governing - takes more than a week. Is VBNMWEB trying to make themself look clueless and ignorant? Just understand how bills have to go through Congress before they can become laws!


(Seriously, though, not a single Democrat promised that the American Rescue Plan - which is what the checks are a part of - would be passed in a f**king week. That's just not how anything works. If you thought it was, then bless your heart.)

I guess that Jon Ossoff must also be politically clueless since he’s the one who said it would be done in the first week.

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https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1367222779225927680