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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1436895
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1436895
This is smart politics
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Nice move by Biden two weeks before elections.
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Huzzah for Cardona–he’s telling it like it is.
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Vote for fascists and feel “superior”.
That–in itself–makes ZERO sense rationally…but emotionally, it does for some.
What we have to do is GOTV, ignore their illogic and OUTVOTE their numbers
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit ordered a temporary stay on the program on Friday in response to Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and South Carolina’s lawsuit against the plan.
Might be worth it for an outside group to run a last minute ad hitting Republicans in Iowa for this stay. It would be a delightful shock if Grassley lost, but making him sweat with a closer than it should be result might finally push him into retirement. This would have been a competitive race for Iowa Democrats if it was for an open seat rather than longtime incumbent.
Bonus would be if Grassley retired before the 2024 election.
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Debt forgiveness for millionaires, AOK. Debt relief for the middle class, FU.
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Should also be easy to hit MO’s AG Eric Schmitt, who is running for the Senate. The man hasn’t found an issue that he won’t sue over.
Interesting to see the 6 states that are suing. We’ve got from north to south, IA, MO, AR, then NE and KS, with the outlier SC.
I would also suggest that these Midwest states have tuition costs less than other states.
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Yeah, but it would probably be a waste of money in MO. At least in the likely case of a loss in IA, a close race may scare Grassley into retirement sooner, setting up for a Dem pickup in 2024, 2026 or 2028 (depending on when Grassley retires).
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Hey I’ve got Hawley, I don’t need a Schmitt.
Sort of would like to see Hawley try and run for POTUS. 
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Yep. Go ahead, GOP, take something away from people that they truly need. Now go for insulin and Medicare.
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Almost certainly, tuition costs are lower in Midwest states. But in Kansas, at least, the state no longer wants to fund higher ed. The state legislature of Kansas recently passed a law allowing presidents at the state schools to fire faculty for practically no reason at all. At the school where I used to teach in Kansas, the president recently fired tenured faculty–even full professors–in an attempt to lower costs (I think). That school has been underfunded for decades, and now it’s getting even worse. Entire programs will be cut, I suspect, including liberal arts programs that offer most of the Gen Ed courses. Unbelievable.
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So they’re finally just going to cut to the chase and have the Universities be exclusively Football teams?
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Already arrived in Alabama and Oklahoma.
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But I think even there they run a couple of non-football courses to meet NCAA requirements to be a “student”.
I’m talking about streamlining things a bit more, get rid of even pretending to have academics.
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They will still win elections in Florida. I never expected the leopard…
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I’m still waiting for the people who so vociferously claim the proposed student debt relief is “unfair” to explain exactly how it is unfair.
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Tons of permutations at the moment, even amongst people who have student loans. If you have private student loans, you don’t get anything, even certain Federal student loans, including Federal Family Education Loans and Perkins loans, don’t qualify.
And that’s just for people with current student loan debt.
Let alone the windfall for someone who does qualify vs. someone who would have qualified had they not prioritized paying their student loans off.
Or the person who went to work at Walmart because they figured they couldn’t afford to take on student loan debt, and now is behind the college grad who has a better-paying job and just got a bailout.
Could be. It would certainly save everybody a lot of aggravation, right?
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If by “unbelievable” you mean “inevitable end result of republican policy” then agreed
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