Republicans plan to torpedo key Biden policies as polls predict midterm victory

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A standoff over the debt ceiling. Aid to Ukraine on the chopping block. And impeachment proceedings against homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas – or perhaps even president Joe Biden himself.

With polls indicating they have a good shot of winning a majority in the House of Representatives in the 8 November midterms, top Republican lawmakers have in recent weeks offered a preview what they might do with their resurgent power and made clear they have their sights set on key aspects of the Biden administration’s policies at home and abroad.

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“You can’t just continue down the path to keep spending and adding to the debt,” said McCarthy, who is likely to be elevated to speaker of the house in a Republican led-chamber. “And if people want to make a debt ceiling [for a longer period of time], just like anything else, there comes a point in time where, okay, we’ll provide you more money, but you got to change your current behavior.”

Asked if he might demand that Social Security and Medicare, the two massive federal retirement and healthcare benefit programs that are nearing insolvency, be reformed as part of debt ceiling negotiations, McCarthy replied that he would not “predetermine” anything.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-plan-torpedo-key-biden-070017722.html

[Docreed2003]

1. "Adding to the debt"

McCarthy knows damn well the deficit has be cut by over a trillion dollars under Biden.

[Botany]

2. Fuck those polls it is the votes that count not polls

GOTV

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Kansas, Alaska, and a NY State district all went blue after Roe v Wade was struck down.

[Lovie777]

3. Throwing family off of medicaid and seniors off of medicare......

people off of SS and SSI., and no more Snap. And they think this helps the economy?

[spanone]

4. FUCK. THE. POLLS.

[agingdem]

6. Polls are useless and obsolete as is

CW (conventional wisdom) the mainstay of polls and the blathering MSM... millennials get their news and information from podcasts, twitter, TikTok, other social media platforms...they "live" on their cellphones and regard any number not on their contact list as "scam likely"...the call goes unanswered and blocked...I'm 74 and I've grown weary of MSNBC/CNN talking heads, their opinions, their go-to contributors and their opinions..it's SOP..it's repetitive and boring...

[Farmer-Rick]

5. This pundit bases all his opinions on Nate Silver's poll predictions

Nate Silver who got the Trump win totally wrong and yet took a victory lap when Trump did win.

Yeah again Nate is making predictions on state races. But he knows how badly state polls are at predicting anything. He said:

"Polls of House races are less accurate than polls of Senate races, which are in turn less accurate than polls of presidential races. Polls of primaries, also, are considerably less accurate than general election polls. During the 2008 Democratic primaries, the average poll missed by about eight points, far more than implied by its margin of error. The problems in polls of the Republican primaries of 2012 may have been even worse. In many of the major states, in fact—including Iowa, South Carolina, Florida, Michigan, Washington, Colorado, Ohio, Alabama, and Mississippi—the candidate ahead in the polls a week before the election lost"

State polls are not good predictors of state voting outcomes, except for on the ground exit polls. Yet, Nate uses them over and over in his own admittedly flawed analysis.

[Chainfire]

7. Assume, for a moment, that the Republicans get everything that they think they want.

House, Senate and in two years the Presidency. How long will it take before their ignorant voters come to the realization of how badly they fucked up? One year, five?

It took the Germans from 1933 to 1942 to realize that their leadership had stepped in it, and three more years before their government blew up. It caused the deaths of about 6,000,000 (depending on who is counting) their own people. (They started the war with about 83,000,000.) Around 7% of their population. Of course we could get out cheaper.

I am not suggesting that our collapse would come from an external war. It may be more like the elite classes killing the goose that lays the eggs of gold, leading to a scapegoat hunt and a civil war and that could lead to an external war, with our good friends from China coming in to restore and keep the peace, like we did in Japan, Korea and Viet Nam. I am not sure we would like it....

Vote, like you life depends on it. It may.