WAPO: Jenn Rubins: Great article about GQP lack of policies

[lindysalsagal]

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/19/midterm-debates-republicans-ohio-georgia-utah/
October 19, 2022 at 10:30 a.m. EDT

Recent midterm debates prove it: This election cycle is not about competing policy ideas or agendas. It’s about two parties operating in entirely different political worlds.

Judging by the debates, Republicans want to dispense with much of the federal government and repeal virtually every Biden achievement (including the bipartisan ones). They are determined to upend, upset and uproot workable government without offering any problem-solving ideas of their own. They have no alternative plan for health care. They have no solutions to address inflation. So what do they do after carving up the federal government?

The answer is likely to cut taxes for the rich, but they cannot say so. The result is a void where a governing agenda normally would be. Watch the debate performances by Republican Senate candidates Ron Johnson (Wis.), Mike Lee (Utah), Herschel Walker (Georgia), Marco Rubio (Fla.) or J.D. Vance (Ohio), and you’ll be hard-pressed to name a policy solution they offered. “Close the border” is not a policy; it is a crudely stated aspiration. “Stop woke Democrats” isn’t even a coherent thought. Stop them from doing what?


Instead, many resort to accusing their Democratic opponents of positions they do not hold. After Vance repeatedly attempted to tie Democrat Tim Ryan to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Ryan suggested that Vance “move back to San Francisco” to run against her.

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1. I wonder if any of the major media outlets have stumbled across this?

Wouldn't that be a real good question of any Republican candidate or officeholder: What's your plan to solve this problem you're whining about and blaming on the Democrats? The follow-up to officeholders writes itself: Why haven't you introduced legislation to enact your brilliant solution?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. More Democrats, please. Look what's been done in spite of Republicans.

[LastDemocratInSC]

3. GQP is an ad-hocracy based on TFG's stream of thought

that changes based on what the last person mentioned to him.

[NoMoreRepugs]

4. Guns, fetus and God. Seriously RePutinicans???

[Genki Hikari]

5. No paywall link

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