{"id":176619,"date":"2020-05-03T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/03\/today-in-evil-4\/"},"modified":"2020-05-03T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T01:53:00","slug":"today-in-evil-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/03\/today-in-evil-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump and the Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/us-policy\/2020\/05\/03\/congress-coronavirus-legal-liability\/\">want to prevent any sort of accountability for employers who kill their employees through recklessness<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Congressional leaders are girding for a huge fight over the reentry of millions of Americans to the workplace, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) insisting that employers be shielded from liability if their workers contract the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2020\/02\/28\/what-you-need-know-about-coronavirus\/?tid=lk_inline_manual_2&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_2\">coronavirus<\/a>. He appears to have the backing of top White House officials.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic leaders have declared they will oppose such blanket protections, putting Washington\u2019s power brokers on opposite sides of a major issue that could have sweeping implications for health care and the economy in the coming months. The battle has unleashed a frenzy of lobbying, with major industry groups, technology firms, insurers, manufacturers, labor unions, and plaintiffs lawyers all squaring off.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Trump administration and Moscow Mitch want to take basic due process rights from regular Americans, and this is exactly how the Democrats should frame this.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, McConnell will steamroll the hapless Chuck Schumer, and incorporate something minor that the Republicans wanted anyway, and Schumer will declare it a victory, because that is how the Democrats work.<\/p>\n<p>More accurately this is how the Democrats play to lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump and the Republicans want to prevent any sort of accountability for employers who kill their employees through recklessness: Congressional leaders are girding for a huge fight over the reentry of millions of Americans to the workplace, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) insisting that employers be shielded from liability if their workers contract &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[413,447,368,364,407,449,406,403],"class_list":["post-176619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-congress","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-justice","tag-legislation","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}