If we are lucky, somebody steps forward, a unifying figure, somebody who brings us all together, reminds us what we all have in common despite any other differences that might have kept us apart in the past. Today it was a republican congressman from kentucky, a man named Thomas Massie, who played that role. He proved that everyone, democrat and republican, could come together even in washington in common purpose. The common purpose of being absolutely furious with congressman Thomas Massie because there really was no suspense today about whether the house of representatives was going to pass this 2 trillion relief package meant to prop up the economy, which has more or less shut down during this pandemic. The Senate Passed this legislation a couple days ago 960, unanimously, democrats and republicans. By all accounts, the vast, vast, vast majority of members of the house supported this thing as well. The suspense was not about whether it would get passed. The suspense was about how th
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