US Politics

And who the fuck is the senate parliamentarian?

The person that decides what can and can't be passed under the Senate's Reconciliation process.

When the senate parliamentarian stood in the way of Bush’s tax plans, they just fired the senate parliamentarian.

Not quite true. He was fired for a range of inconsistent and contradictory rulings, i.e not doing his job properly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/08/us/rules-keeper-is-dismissed-by-senate-official-says.html

And if you’re struggling along on $7.50, looking forward to a wage increase and you hear that isn’t going to happen because of the ‘senate parliamentarian’ are you going to think “oh, ok, rules are rules” or are you going to think “WTF is this shit?”

Thats not the case is it? Nobody is saying its not happening. Its just that its literally against the rules of the house to pass it under emergency legislation using the reconciliation process.

Call me old fashioned, but I consider pushing through legislation using illegal methods to be a slippery slope no matter how important the legislation is.

They'll do it. They have big industry backing (Amazon for one). They just can't do it as part of the emergency stimulus package.