Originally published at: MAGA Republicans Dodge Questions About Their Own Party’s Plans To Gut Social Safety Net
Some House Republicans in recent weeks have not exactly been shy about their interest in reviving the party’s longtime passion for gutting the social safety net in the wake of Donald Trump’s reelection and the coming Republican trifecta. Reports have surfaced indicating that some congressional Republicans are in talks with Trump advisers about making cuts…
Not morning memo! First!
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They won’t commit to it, will gut whatever they can, and then blame Democrats for it when their constituents get upset about losing their benefits.
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I know this is a minority opinion, but billionaires seem to be doing fine without government assistance.
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“I think there’s so much fraud and abuse in health care, so we can have trillions of offsets for reconciliation just in healthcare,” Spartz told TPM.
So they are going to go after the massive Medicare Advantage fraud committed by insurance companies that invent diagnoses for their patients so they are reimbursed at a higher rate by Medicare?
I don’t think so.
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“I want to make sure we incentivize people getting back to work. When you do that, people don’t need the services this much,” Scott told TPM when asked if he would get behind cuts to entitlement programs.
Maybe Skeletor should go back to work, at his old job defrauding Medicare.
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I need coping strategies for people who’re mad at the truth for failure to match what that fuckling liar told them.
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“I personally am against that but I haven’t heard that,” Greene said.
Isn’t it their job to—I dunno—know stuff? Don’t they have staff or follow news?
They all can recite chapter and verse cookware expenditures made by Kamala Harris but have no clue as to what people in their own party are promoting?
Like the First Felon, republicans’ super-power is their belligerent ignorance.
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This is a great example of how Republicans dodge their agency in government and policy. Of course they have policies and work to enact them. One such is eliminating what they call “entitlements”. Now today they call that Social Security, and they go into denial they want to cut it. Tomorrow they call it entitlements and they want to cut it. It is exactly like the Affordable Care Act and Obama Care, Republican politicians say they want to cut Obama Care but preserve the Affordable Care Act.
Oddly, TPM is one of the few news groups that really report on this. You would think that MSM reporters are into gotchas, but really not so much when it comes to Republicans.
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It’s not just belligerent ignorance, it’s weaponized ignorance.
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First of all, DOD spending is never getting cut, especially with Elmo raking in billions in government contracts from the Defense and Space Divisions.
Secondly GQP, if you’re looking to cut Medicare and Medicaid fraud then why not ask an expert like Rick Scott, who is conveniently already in your party?
Or better yet, the incoming President elect? He’s a walking billboard for fraud, both state and federal.
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Do you have any idea how much fuel costs for a fleet of personal jets going all about the country picking up various mistresses, personal staffers, and the odd supreme court judge?
Thanks, Biden. /s
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Because Americans are just that stupid. Rinse. Repeat. They’ll never get it.
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It’s code talking. And though I didn’t grow up and fully experience the time before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enacted, the vestiges of racism in its full glory were still around when I was older. They were just coded better.
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You left out their PR staff, and someone to carry around a printer to print off nice things being said about you.
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The GOP needs to find a way to make cuts that Dems will get the blame for. Hopefully the Dems won’t fall into the “bipartisan” trap.
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Silly.
See when poor people take something that’s not theirs, it’s called theft. And that’s a crime.
When a rich person takes something that’s not theirs, it’s called business.
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Well, no. Of course not. Because that would expose the game that benefits the people who pay those reporters’ salaries. And, I mean, without the Fourth Estate to protect us, what do we have?
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They always do. I sometimes wonder if we’re in this perpetual mess because Republicans are that evil or because Democrats are so happy to play the cuck. I’m going with “all of the above.”
Blame Biden, because always blame the Democrats! They are the only ones that do anything, can do anything, but it is always highly questionable what they do.
And if that doesn’t sound good (because it doesn’t), then elect a Republican because running a government is just like turning a light switch, because surely if one has not delivered a unicorn, the other will. Unicorns in every pot!/s
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