Originally published at: Surely A Winning Strategy: Republicans Are Trying to Be As Tone Deaf As Possible On Affordability
‘Affordability? What Are You Talking About?’ It would be difficult to miss President Trump’s remarks this week about what a “yawn” fest the bipartisan housing bill that is sitting on his desk is — the one that Republicans members of Congress are begging him to sign so they have something to campaign on for the…
I am sure it will be epic… and if those wusses on the supreme court can’t handle it they should quit.
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A president taking a fall trip to Dallas to shore things up in the state of Texas?
What could possibly go wrong?
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If you are making $500,000 a year on your stock investments ahd have homes in two different states affordbaility isn’t a big thing. That might describe the average Republican operative, but it doesn’t describe the average American voter.
Good luck at repeating “I can’t hear you” over and over again to the average voter facing high food prices, higher energy prices (thanks billionaire AI tech bros), gasoline prices through the roof and a never ending cycle of higher prices for foreign made goods all while dealing with the loss of your health care or at least much higher insurance premiums.
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Just throwing a question out. Why are we talking about “affordability,” and not inequality? The wages of the lower 3/4 have been growing more and more slowly than the income of the very wealthy now for 40 years. The further down you go on the income scale, the slower the growth. The wages of those on the bottom rungs have been practically flat. Similarly, but not coincidentally, the higher you go on the income scale of the top earners, the faster the growth.
It’s true that if you’re not well off or rich all the necessities–gas, clothing, food, health care, college–are less and less affordable. But it’s myopic to conclude that we have an affordabilty crisis. The rich can afford everything just fine, thank you, with plenty of money left over to buy the government with. We have a the-rich-are-taking-all-the-money-from-everyone-else crisis. A crisis of inequality, and it’s far from new. Calling it “affordability” takes our eyes off the villains and malefactors–the very very rich.
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The peasants are starving. Let them eat cake? No, let them launch a memecoin rug pull that doubles a means to collect bribes.
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The rich have no clue how much items cost. They don’t open their wallet, just send the bill to the accountant to pay. That’s why CF thinks you have to show your ID to go grocery shopping.
My gasoline bill was higher than the groceries I bought yesterday.
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Bingo. The reason we call it affordability. The real villians of American life don’t want anybody to focus on them. The word “inequality” points fingers at people the political class, both parties, depend on for the money.they think they deserve.
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Seems like some clever Dem could pair Trump calling affordable homes for average Americans
with some of the many videos of him nodding off at various & sundry events to make a pretty good attack ad. Even if the candidate the ad runs against voted for the bill, they’d still find themselves stuck between standing up for Trump or disavowing his idiocy and risking his wrath.
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I can’t say anything accept what arrogance.
I think that the 60% of Americans the reporter was talking probably work twice as hard as the GOP in Congress.
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birth tourism
The cottage industry for millionaires and billionaires will be fine. For details and asistance, call 1-800-EPSTEIN.
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I’m going to burn sausages and eat the horseradish before it loses itt bite.
Not in November, I’ll wager…..
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Never mind that they might not work as hard as he does; they might work harder.
Bottom line here, there’s a disconnect between how hard one works vs. how much they earn. This guy works less than 200 days a year and even then it’s not a full day, especially given how frequently the House is sent home by the SOTH.
The average worker works 8.4 hours a day. When has the House put in anything like that on a regular basis - one-off’s for Vote-a-ramas don’t happen often enough.
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Colorado politics has been on Josh’s mind lately. I figured Tina Peters would fade away, but no, just more drama every day. All out of the authoritarian playbook.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/jared-polis-tina-peters-clemency-board-fired.html
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5948430-trump-meets-tina-peters/
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Speaking of “yawn” fests … how’s that ETTD Expo going?
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I had to be there from 8:30 to 5 with a half-hour unpaid lunch (but we always took an hour. f ‘em)
2040 hrs/yr at the benchmark 8 hr day. Congresscritters spend that much time fundraising.
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Keggers has to be proud.
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