This is not a “both sides” issue.

The Republican contribution to Congress's coronavirus relief package may not be perfect, but at least it is not a brazen attempt to leverage a viral pandemic to seize power and control.

Democratic lawmakers, on the other hand, are playing a dangerous and all-too-obvious partisan game, going so far as to scuttle a bill meant to stabilize the U.S. economy in favor of new legislation loaded with enough unrelated goodies to choke a donkey.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s newly announced "relief" proposal, titled the “Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act,” cancels the U.S. Postal Service's $11 billion in debt and gives it $20 billion in cash. It mandates that the head of each federal department or agency “shall submit to Congress a report on the actions taken to increase the use of minority banks and minority credit unions to serve the financial needs of each such department or agency." It empowers the newly proposed COVID–19 Aid Oversight Panel to collect data on “employee demographics,” “supplier diversity,” “pay equity,” and “corporate board diversity" for any organization that receives federal funds in connection with the coronavirus pandemic.

Remember: Congress was set to pass an emergency relief package this weekend before Democratic lawmakers torpedoed it in favor of Pelosi's mockery of a bill.

The Speaker’s “relief” proposal makes early voting available in all 50 states. It mandates that each state must allow same-day voter registration. It has an entire section titled, “Federal employee collective bargaining and official time," referring to taxpayer-funded unions. It requires that airlines fully offset their carbon emissions. It contains new rules for improving “consumer information regarding release of greenhouse gasses from flights.”

The bill also forgives $10,000 in student loans for every borrower.

In other words, Pelosi’s proposal is chockablock with provisions for causes and interests that are in no way related to the immediate need to halt the spread of the virus and calm the U.S. and world economies.

Early voting? Student loan forgiveness? Offsetting carbon emissions? Bailing out the post office? Policing “corporate board diversity”? These have nothing to do with preventing further economic ruin or COVID-19-related deaths. They are merely items on the Democratic Party's wish list — issues that excite their left-wing base.

By the way, the carve-outs mentioned in the above are just a few of the outrageous items that can be found in the Democrat’s monstrosity of a bill, which is approximately 620 pages longer than the Senate Republican version they claimed was too special interest-oriented. Democrats also complained the Senate GOP proposal gave Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin too much discretionary authority over $500 billion earmarked for “severely distressed businesses.” The Pelosi bill has not only a similar provision for "distressed businesses" in the amount of $150 Billion, but it also gives the Treasury Secretary the exact same powers as the Senate GOP version to “review and decide on applications for loans and loan guarantees.”

The "Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act" is a shameful attempt by Democrats to use the panic, fear, and uncertainty that the virus has caused to accomplish purely ideological goals. It is as obvious as it is brazen, and frankly, it is disgusting.

But none of this should come as a surprise.

After all, it was just last week that Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina reportedly told members of his caucus that legislation related to the coronavirus chaos presents “a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.”

You got to hand it to Democrats: Nothing distracts them from their single-minded pursuit of power and control. Not even a viral pandemic.