Back last May, Heather Cox Richardson wrote this: “This is no longer your mother’s Republican Party, or your grandfather’s…or his grandfather’s. “Today’s Republican Party is not about equal rights and opportunity, as Lincoln’s party was. It is not about using the government to protect ordinary people, as Theodore Roosevelt’s party was. It is not even about advancing the ability of businesses to do as they deem best, as Ronald Reagan’s party was.
You're right, of course. The Fweedumb Cockatuss nuts just what to blow things up so Fox can put the explosion on a video loop. Weenies like Traitor Goon can't say what, exactly they want to blow up because they honestly don't care about anything but the explosion. K
Paul Waldman in the Washington Post has a nice article positing that the Democrats SHOULD negotiate with the Republicans on the debt limit, as follows:
Democrats are perfectly free to say the following: With their demand for across-the-board domestic spending reductions, Republicans are in effect proposing cuts to education, health care, economic development, clean energy, infrastructure, enforcement of environmental laws and a great deal more. So here are some of our demands:
• A significant tax increase on the wealthy
• An increase in the minimum wage, including indexing it to inflation
• A national paid family leave program
• A program to extend the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid to the states that have refused to accept it
• Universal pre-K
• A permanent expansion of the child tax credit
As Waldman said in his title, if the Republicans want to negotiate, bring it on.....
sounds to me like they're back to those old days (assuming they ever went away) of Gingrich's xeroxed "talking points," so that no matter which Repug gets asked, the answer is a word-for-word repetition of that day's talking point. I get this idea from the fact that one of the prevailing talking points is that SS and Medicare are off-limits. another piece of evidence hit me the other night (or was it last night?) when Scalise repeated the bogus assertion that Eric Smallwell "couldn't get a security clearance in the private sector," so should therefore not be allowed into the Intelligence Subcommittee. unlike, say, that gleet-leaking dick Devin Nunes?
what these scumbags may not be aware of is how any of their constituents rely on Medicaid. is it really possible that they associate a need for Medicaid with Democrats alone? I refuse to believe that there weren't a fair number of those insurrectionists who get their health care through Medicaid.
getting back to the insanity of that 30% sales tax...that anyone in that caucus would even think of presenting that sort of thing says all there is to say about their cluelessness. do they really think that the knowledge that the progressive income tax ( at least it is ON PAPER, but that's a separate issue) has been eliminated make them feel just fine about shelling out $13,000 for that $10,000 tractor? is the calculation that, since their base is blaming Biden for the current international inflation, they could manage to stick him with THAT? I betcha there are some of them who think that and they might be right about the stupidest members of "the base."
I attended a panel about four years ago that featured a debate between Liz Holtzman and Ed Cox (who status as a Nixon son-in-law I'd forgotten). Sam Roberts was the "moderator," who mentioned having a conversation with a farmer who was very happy about the small amount of money he'd been getting back from the government because of TFF's "tax cuts." he said that he was now able to buy the tractor he wanted. Liz Holtzman responded that he might not be so thrilled when 1) his rebate expires and 2) he experienced the Medicare cuts that the rebate would necessitate. among the angry people in that audience, I didn't exactly cover myself in glory when I found myself telling Cox to "shut the fuck up" when he was loudly talking over Liz, who is very tiny and frail-appearing. he looked like he was ready to mix it up with me and I was mortified because I was a guest of the widow of the person the event was honoring. I apologized to my hosts and when it was over, a retired judge who'd been at the dinner reception I'd attended gave my arm a little squeeze and said "hey, don't get so worked up. Liz can take care of herself."
Your first sentence reminds me of this quote from Milton Mayer, “They Thought They We’re Free, The Germans 1933-45. Last sentence of a mind-blowing paragraph in this book. “You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father could never have imagined.” Certainly true at my parents house, and mine…
The dummies in the House are like the dog who finally caught the car they’ve been chasing…now what do they do? They have no plan, no alternatives, nothing in the tank. The lunatics have the run of the asylum, but now what do they do? They’re like the Russian sailors that mutinied and took over a frigate in the Baltic. They got the ship, but who steers it, how do we work the engines, the radio, where do we go, what do we do next? Totally clueless, just like the morons who elected them…
Good stuff here, TC. Today’s RepubliQans have absolutely nothing of substance to offer unless you are of the “burn it all down” mindset. I cannot help but love your opening salvo of “...ignorant vitriol with a swirl of conspiracy thinking” with a wonderful chaser of “...the Washington DC press corpse”.
I am slightly encouraged by seeing some reporters actually press republicans for specifics about what to cut and what their general vision for the country's future looks like. More of them have to lean on these media craving types in particular. It is not enough for them to burn it all down because it must be replaced with something.( Keep pointing at them and laughing behind your hand as you lean toward the ear of the person next to you.--Mean Girls Handbook)
So many congress critters who rail against gub'mint spending represent states that get back more in benefits than they pay to the federal government. They don't realize the gub'mint spending funds their benefits, for example their mama in the nursing home who is on Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.
The only thing Republicans have to offer America is a heaping helping of ignorant vitriol with a swirl of conspiracy thinking.
You're right, of course. The Fweedumb Cockatuss nuts just what to blow things up so Fox can put the explosion on a video loop. Weenies like Traitor Goon can't say what, exactly they want to blow up because they honestly don't care about anything but the explosion. K
Paul Waldman in the Washington Post has a nice article positing that the Democrats SHOULD negotiate with the Republicans on the debt limit, as follows:
Democrats are perfectly free to say the following: With their demand for across-the-board domestic spending reductions, Republicans are in effect proposing cuts to education, health care, economic development, clean energy, infrastructure, enforcement of environmental laws and a great deal more. So here are some of our demands:
• A significant tax increase on the wealthy
• An increase in the minimum wage, including indexing it to inflation
• A national paid family leave program
• A program to extend the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid to the states that have refused to accept it
• Universal pre-K
• A permanent expansion of the child tax credit
As Waldman said in his title, if the Republicans want to negotiate, bring it on.....
sounds to me like they're back to those old days (assuming they ever went away) of Gingrich's xeroxed "talking points," so that no matter which Repug gets asked, the answer is a word-for-word repetition of that day's talking point. I get this idea from the fact that one of the prevailing talking points is that SS and Medicare are off-limits. another piece of evidence hit me the other night (or was it last night?) when Scalise repeated the bogus assertion that Eric Smallwell "couldn't get a security clearance in the private sector," so should therefore not be allowed into the Intelligence Subcommittee. unlike, say, that gleet-leaking dick Devin Nunes?
what these scumbags may not be aware of is how any of their constituents rely on Medicaid. is it really possible that they associate a need for Medicaid with Democrats alone? I refuse to believe that there weren't a fair number of those insurrectionists who get their health care through Medicaid.
getting back to the insanity of that 30% sales tax...that anyone in that caucus would even think of presenting that sort of thing says all there is to say about their cluelessness. do they really think that the knowledge that the progressive income tax ( at least it is ON PAPER, but that's a separate issue) has been eliminated make them feel just fine about shelling out $13,000 for that $10,000 tractor? is the calculation that, since their base is blaming Biden for the current international inflation, they could manage to stick him with THAT? I betcha there are some of them who think that and they might be right about the stupidest members of "the base."
I attended a panel about four years ago that featured a debate between Liz Holtzman and Ed Cox (who status as a Nixon son-in-law I'd forgotten). Sam Roberts was the "moderator," who mentioned having a conversation with a farmer who was very happy about the small amount of money he'd been getting back from the government because of TFF's "tax cuts." he said that he was now able to buy the tractor he wanted. Liz Holtzman responded that he might not be so thrilled when 1) his rebate expires and 2) he experienced the Medicare cuts that the rebate would necessitate. among the angry people in that audience, I didn't exactly cover myself in glory when I found myself telling Cox to "shut the fuck up" when he was loudly talking over Liz, who is very tiny and frail-appearing. he looked like he was ready to mix it up with me and I was mortified because I was a guest of the widow of the person the event was honoring. I apologized to my hosts and when it was over, a retired judge who'd been at the dinner reception I'd attended gave my arm a little squeeze and said "hey, don't get so worked up. Liz can take care of herself."
Your first sentence reminds me of this quote from Milton Mayer, “They Thought They We’re Free, The Germans 1933-45. Last sentence of a mind-blowing paragraph in this book. “You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father could never have imagined.” Certainly true at my parents house, and mine…
The dummies in the House are like the dog who finally caught the car they’ve been chasing…now what do they do? They have no plan, no alternatives, nothing in the tank. The lunatics have the run of the asylum, but now what do they do? They’re like the Russian sailors that mutinied and took over a frigate in the Baltic. They got the ship, but who steers it, how do we work the engines, the radio, where do we go, what do we do next? Totally clueless, just like the morons who elected them…
Good stuff here, TC. Today’s RepubliQans have absolutely nothing of substance to offer unless you are of the “burn it all down” mindset. I cannot help but love your opening salvo of “...ignorant vitriol with a swirl of conspiracy thinking” with a wonderful chaser of “...the Washington DC press corpse”.
I'm waiting for Peter Baker's NYT "news analysis" saying it's all Biden's fault.
I am slightly encouraged by seeing some reporters actually press republicans for specifics about what to cut and what their general vision for the country's future looks like. More of them have to lean on these media craving types in particular. It is not enough for them to burn it all down because it must be replaced with something.( Keep pointing at them and laughing behind your hand as you lean toward the ear of the person next to you.--Mean Girls Handbook)
The consequence of gerrymandering and “safe seats.” The representative is chosen in the primary, when the most ideological vote.
So many congress critters who rail against gub'mint spending represent states that get back more in benefits than they pay to the federal government. They don't realize the gub'mint spending funds their benefits, for example their mama in the nursing home who is on Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.
The state of Arkansas cut Medicaid
here with a provision to get it, or keep it, you had to work. PBS did a
documentary on how well that worked out, when these Medicaid
people couldn't find jobs, because
there were none. They couldn't get
their medications or kidney dialysis.
I believe the documentary was
aired nationally. Medicaid benefits
were restored. Imagine this FUBAR
on a national level.
Hands off Social Security and Medicare is the new republican
mantra, due to the fact, most of
the MAGA base, especially in Florida, are on these programs.
Thanks for the really good essay
essayon the debt tussle, Tom.