From the sound of it, the R “investigation” agenda is one that will ultimately end up disgusting just about anyone who isn’t part of their 33%.
At some point, everyone else will understand that, while making a lot of noise, they aren’t doing anything to address climate change, income inequality, COVID, etc. Climate change, in particular, will just continue happening to people, and the R’s have absolutely no answers.
That was my thought for much of the article, reading what Republicans will do in control of the House would be to assure the reelection of Joe Biden.
On the debt ceiling, I always blamed Obama for taking them seriously and giving them anything because those with the most have the most to lose which means defaulting on the debt would hurt McConnell’s big money supporters more than anyone else.
But it is still the case that a Republican majority in the House will likely do damage to America and also could cause a constitutional crisis should they refuse to certify Joe Biden’s 2024 victory.
IF there’s no Blue Wave this year, there will definitely be one in 2024.
Republicans always overreach.
It’s in their DNA.
Today’s Republican—“The best government is the bad government you had last time we were in control! Help make it worse—vote for us again!”
Perhaps the single most consequential story of the midterms season broke this week, and there’s been virtually no coverage from major TV news shows, newspapers, and other mainstream outlets https://t.co/JAuigGvZEK
— Media Matters (@mmfa) October 14, 2022
“Entitlements are gonna consume the budget,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said recently on Fox News, adding: “Entitlement reform is a must for us to not become Greece.”
Refresh my memory what percent of the budget goes to the military? If we want to use the (bad) family finance analogy, it’s like cutting the budget for Mom’s night classes to become an engineer, but we can’t even acknowledge Dad’s booze and ammo money.
Hmmmm lemme guess - make it impossible for anyone but MAGA morons to vote, and ushering in a thousand year Reich?
I saw him on Real Time on HBO several weeks ago and he is convinced Democrats will control both houses after the election, based on what he has been seeing and hearing across the country. He said he thinks people are extremely pissed based on all the crap from the SC and the GOP and will step up and put an end to it in November. He called Trump winning back in 2016 based on the same formula so I for one, believe him.
Four health insurance programs — Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace health insurance subsidies — together account for 25 percent of the budget in 2022, or $1.4 trillion.
Social Security is not part of the federal budget.
Defense Department’s fiscal 2022 base budget appropriation is $742.3 billion.
The U.S. government has spent $5.35 trillion in fiscal year 2022.
Here’s hoping his observations hold true. I like many others genuinely feel the current incarnation of the former Republican Party is a threat to our nation.
If people under age 45 can feel a mission on their part to save our Democracy, we are home free.
There are enough people who are not Trumpers to form voting blocs capable of retaining Congress.
It would be a masterful achievement and would be entirely the result of understanding the same types of persuasive techniques known in a number of quarters.
In a reverse process, Trump was able to make fascism “American” for millions of people.
I doubt our cumulative IQ is any lower than that of any other nation. The problem is our festering anti-intellectualism, the pride a chunk of the country has in its ignorance.
And, of course, the equally festering mental health issues that overlap the anti-intellectualism, making everything that much worse. There are moments when I worry that some part of the country is finally going to go full Khmer Rouge on the local population.
Not only that…
American women are three times more likely to die in childbirth than Canadian women, and ten times more likely to die in childbirth than women in Australia. We devote a pittance to education, and gain a large population that can’t read. We have a minimum wage of $7 an hour – which won’t pay for parking. We incarcerate more people than any other country. And the Republican Party is convinced all is well because the world is going to end real soon now.
Yes, the conservative movement has done a fine, fine job.
“Nothing will get done”
Feature not a bug
Not that the numbers matter, as you well know, since the point is to repeal both the New Deal and the Great Society.
The problem is that the MSM agrees that the so-called entitlement programs need to be cut–maybe not as much as the GQP would like, but everyone needs skin in the game, both sides are equally guilty, we need to compromise, America is a central-right country, blargle-blargle-blarg.
… which is only three slots closer to the OECD average than the US on the tax graph shown above. The Australian version of The Guardian has plenty of complaints about their welfare state and yet, for not much more tax per GDP they have universal sick leave, paid parental leave and an actual national healthcare system.
What Republicans Will Do If They Win The House
The big whopper (not mentioned, since the article is focusing on things they say they’ll do), is granting witnesses immunity, to fuck up prosecutions of jan 6th planners and alternafraud elector plotters. Part of burying iran contra before the investigations got to the oval office was congress granting witnesses immunity. Still had to pardon six people, but immunity was one of the tools used. I don’t know whether a House committee can grant immunity without at least token support from the minority party.
Really? You think they’ll have their ducks well enough in a row to be able to actually grant immunity without fucking things up? Trump has assembled the GOP House that Can’t Hit the Broadside of a Barn, and even if they get the reins of power, I can’t imagine that they would have the wherewithal to pull off a snooker like that.
Fucking things up is the point. Fuck things up so difficult prosecutions change to impossible.