The very last thing the Republicans want

[kpete]

[speak easy]

1. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly.

[madaboutharry]

2. This is so very true.

Republicans are totalitarians. They want the people to be hurting because when people are hurting they are in a place of weakness and the weak can be controlled.

[OldBaldy1701E]

31. As far as these animals are concerned

We are supposed to be out working ourselves to death at their whim. Anyone who won't should be arrested and punished until they will. The rest should be left out in the cold to die.

[bottomofthehill]

3. Much like Obama Care

They live in fear of the success of a program supported by Democrats in Congress. They will not support it, lie about it, spread fears about it and once successful, talk shit about repealing it all the while doing exactly nothing real about it. Again, like Obama Care.
Years later I am
Still waiting for the Republican repeal and replace bill, what a load of shit

[IronLionZion]

6. They haven't been able to repeal Social Security or Medicare

2 Dem programs that had relentless GOP opposition at the beginning but turned out to be popular since it has helped so many elderly people.

[jaxexpat]

9. But they're still and continually under attack.....

and it's by planting seeds of lies in the mind of 20 year-olds, demonizing the "resource-eating" elderly, the lazy poor, the rumor that SS will not be there when they reach retirement age.

[CottonBear]

17. This is why Georgia & the other red states haven't expanded Medicaid.

The GOP doesn’t want the poor people who are in poverty to get health insurance.

There are millions of our fellow Americans making poverty wages, who have NO health insurance because they don’t qualify for ACA (their annual income is classified as poverty) and/or they don’t qualify for the current Medicaid programs in their states.

In Georgia, this includes huge numbers of uninsured white, brown and black people.

The GA GOP refuses the Medicaid Expansion plan and funding because the ACA was President Obama’s greatest achievement. The GA GOP would rather that you get sick and die rather than benefit from a federal program that was created by a black, Democratic President.

[LiberalLovinLug]

25. Which is why I always wonder, why they usually choose to go more conservative

At least in past administrations.
That they thought that coddling their Republican peers in Washington, even though those R's are NOT in sync with the majority of the American people, was the way to go. In some convoluted idea that if enough of more moderate R voters see that, they will be impressed enough to decide to switch parties.

Why not side with what the majority of actual working people want outside of that Washington bubble? An example; a $2000 cheque that was seen as being promised, reduced to $1400? Who is that supposed to be impressing?

A majority want some form of M4A. In whatever form that takes. Yet much of the leadership also runs from that.

Yes, I realize that you need votes, like from Manchin and Collins, but at some point they have play the long game. Stand up for what the majority wants, and it will eventually pay off.

[Hortensis]

4. :) A good portion of the trumpist/GOP base want it also.

Poor Congressional Repubs caught between their high principles, which don't allow distributing all that money back to the working classes it came from, and the greedy, lazy people.

[gab13by13]

5. This is a "big fucking deal,"

This is a huge rescue package and it is certain to spur the economy and help with the pandemic. It is a huge feat to get this bill passed.

With zero Republican support. Democrats need to push the narrative that every Republican voted against the $1,400.00 stimulus check.

Will some Republicans risk voting for it?

[piddyprints]

7. I told my daughter the same thing.

I could see her rolling her eyes over the non-video phone call as she suggested we talk about something else. Translation: Mom's just crazy and thinks everything's political.

She listens to far too much local news but doesn't seem to have a clue what's really going on. She voted for Biden, so there is some hope. Still ... anyone who can't see that the republicans are terrified that Biden will succeed isn't paying attention.

[Jon King]

8. Still waiting for their health care plan....

Like everything, full of opposition with zero ideas.

[Roc2020]

10. Biden and the Dems are leaving the GOP

in the dust and whupping their tails. They can thank Trump

[Johnny2X2X]

11. This is so true

If he $15 minimum wage isn't part of it, it gets done very quickly and people will get their checks and know who is looking out for them.


The $15 minimum wage can be another debate and Reps can block that as a standalone and face the consequences too.

Trump drove the economy off a cliff, and botched the response to the virus, Biden will be remembered for saving the economy and defeating the virus. Nothing can change that if we pass this stimulus.

[gab13by13]

12. The GQP is absolutely about obstructing everything

Democrats propose. I mean I think Arizona and Florida have passed $15.00 minimum wage bills and then Republicans from those states go on TV and claim how terrible passing a minimum wage will be. In all fairness, states like Alabama and Mississippi who keep the workers in bondage may have trouble paying 15 bucks.

[Sympthsical]

13. Government must be proven to be incompetent for their ideology to hold weight

And, by God, they will ensure that government seems incompetent, if it kills the rest of us to do it.

[Ligyron]

27. Exactly.

Well stated too.

[Demnation]

14. Paul Krugman has been saying this almost word for word for years.

[llashram]

15. truth

[Ferrets are Cool]

16. Bingo!!!

[Stuart G]

18. K & R...Thank You for Posting This..

[BobTheSubgenius]

19. They need to be boxed in rhetorically on this.

Make it clear to the American people for whom lucidity remains just what is being done, and who is doing it.

[dhill926]

20. this is basically it in a nutshell...

wish that 74 million or so realized it....

[mwb970]

21. They are heavily invested in America's failure.

Whenever Democrats are in charge.

[SayItLoud]

22. When is the Dem leadership going to catch on?

The rePUKES will NEVER co operate, be fair, sharing or play as a united team with Democrats. Time to shove them aside, ram through everything and anything that is of value for America and not spend one iota of energy trying to convince the cult of tRUMP. Rant over.

[movingviolation]

23. I truly believe that their oligarch paymasters pay them to hamstring us, for their own power gains.

I also believe that malign foreign actors (loookin' at you Vlad) are some of those paymasters.
Mysterious trips of several GOPers to Moscow on July 4th, 2016 look pretty fishy to me.
You can't tell me there isn't a HUUUGE money/evidence trail supporting this theory.
Fix this, fix the U.S.

[Cha]

24. KR!

[Martin68]

26. Before Obama's terms in office, I wouldn't have believed that the Republican Party would

place their own self-interest ahead of that of the American people. How wrong I was!

[ratchiweenie]

28. TOTALLY NAILED IT!!!

[Joinfortmill]

29. 👍

[sarcasmo]

30. Krugman was on Maddow and said the Bill is better than expected and

the economy will be rolling by this time next year.