Originally published at: Republicans’ Plan to Convince Americans They Care About Affordability Is Cartoonishly Out of Touch
I’ve been operating under the assumption that the Trump administration’s interest in cracking down on “fraud” in how states spend federal funding that is dispersed for programs like Medicaid, Medicare and the federal nutrition program SNAP was just another excuse to punish President Trump’s critics and perceived political foes. Social services fraud was, after all,…
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Basically, House Republicans think that rooting out fraud will resonate as a win with voters in tackling the affordability crisis, rather than what it actually translates as: more cuts to programs that low-income and disabled Americans rely on to survive.
Becoming Snidely Whiplash seems to be what all GQP apparatchiks aspire to these days:
ETA: And, they think it’s what most folks wanna vote for.
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Republicans have been struggling to explain to Americans that they both care about, and are doing something to address, the affordability crisis in America
That’s hysterical, since their fearless leader has insisted affordability is a Dumbocrat hoax.
Way too many quotes out there that should be relentlessly re-broadcast by every Democratic candidate for House and Senate.
This needs to be a total focus issue.
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I heard Seth Moulton talking about the USS Abraham Lincoln travesty (and about the Iran debacle in general) on the NPR this afternoon. This is more or less how I’d like to hear Dem politicians present themselves: Moulton did not hesitate to call out the Trump admin’s poor execution of the Iran war, and noted that Hegseth seems to be more worried about his testosterone levels than he does about the welfare of America’s folks in uniform.
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DHS has acquired 12 new aircraft, including 5 extravagant new luxury jets
So KKKrusty the Gnome didn’t get to take one as a parting gift? This will surely cut in to her mile-high trysts. Sad.
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So, those 5 jets are for deporting pardoned billionaires and fraudsters against whom the charges have been withdrawn?
Also, and, this letting the bunko artists go does seem like a way to undermine trust in the economy.
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They might ultimately be, but allegedly they were purchased for moving detainees out.
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We’re going to win the voters back by cracking down on fraud. No, no, stop sweating. We’re talking about “fraud”, not any of the stuff we’ve been doing
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“Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, 2026 and going forward.” LIARS!!
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The Senate GOP’s elections chief [Tim Scott] said Michigan voters have a clear-cut choice: pick a Trump-backed Republican or support an insurgent progressive who is “for Hamas.”
Seriously?
While Donnie’s allies in his war are Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar, where Hamas used to be headquartered?
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it would ostensibly involve returning lost funds to government health programs.
The word ‘ostensibly’ is doing a lot of work there. Like all the money we got back from the massive DOGE savings? I don’t remember the govt flacks touting that.
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It sounds awful, but we live in a country where lower middle classes give tithe money to millionaire pastors for private jets, so…
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You were looking for consistency, logic and rationality? Not to mention an Oxford comma?
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The last time Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide was consistently around or above 420 ppm was 14 million years ago during the mid-Miocene climatic optimum, about 7 million years before our hominid ancestors split from chimps. Rather than rely on geological processes, humans achieved this geochemical shift all by themselves in just a few hundred years.
We can talk about “affordability” and we can talk about “abundance” in the age of AI, but humanity’s singular achievement and possible legacy has been to make the planet almost unlivable. We have wiped out species by the hundreds of thousands, poisoned everything including ourselves, and then complain about the smoke, high prices, and taxation on gun silencers. We need to have a political parties that stress an achievable post-industrial existence. With a focus on improving quality of life, not just living standards, the affordability and abundance challenges will take care of themselves.
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The absolutely best way to cut fraud in Medicare would be to kill the Medicare Advantage program.
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House Republican says ‘we should do a little more’ for the rich
Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) made a remarkable argument on Thursday, explaining that in his opinion, Congress “should do a little more” for wealthy Americans.
The moment came during a Republican policy discussion on the economy featuring Michigan gubernatorial candidate Rep. John James (R-MI), House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), Grothman, and other GOP officials. The panel focused on the party’s economic agenda and its differences with Democrats ahead of the midterm elections.
Alleging that President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill was designed to cut taxes for “the average guy,” he insisted, pointing his finger at the crowd, “Don’t let anybody tell you that people running, uh, Congress right now are looking out for the rich. Actually, I think we should do a little more for them, but, you know, right now, uh, we are doing all we can to help the middle class, right?”
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Someone should tell this clown that the lower class – all those peons struggling to pay the rent and buy groceries, while they wait on your table and mow your lawn – they get to vote too! As he’s going to find out in November.
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