Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) aggressively countered Sen. Rick Scott’s (R-FL) 11-point plan Tuesday as Democrats continue to hammer the party for its tax proposal.
Kill granny and tax the poor more so corporate america and the obscenely wealthy can continue to skate. Might even be a hard sell among the fascist base.
Nonsense. The GQP will outline the plan as Freedom! and Personal Responsibility! and Job Creators!! The rubes will lap it up and tap their meager retirement accounts to support the agenda.
Let’s see, the MAGA base is made up primarily of middle class and lower middle class older people. Yep raising their taxes and ending their Social Security and Medicare is going to get their attention. And not in a good way. W made a proposal to privatize Social Security. He had to dial it back after the Senior Citizens almost revolted on the Republican party.
Self-enslavement by GOP voters enabling an out-of-control 1% has always been a sure-fire validation of the idea that emotion (against perceived enemies) drives their political participation.
Policy a distant second.
I have seen GOP base voters actually go against Chamber of Commerce types of pols who have put forth ideas less repressive
“I think Republican senators would hope that Rick Scott would stay focused right now on the job of being the chairman of the Senate election committee,” he told reporters.
Sen. Blunt then concluded by saying, “Bless his heart.”