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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(136,376 posts)
Wed May 4, 2022, 01:49 PM May 2022

Biden seeks to paint GOP as 'extreme'

President Biden in a speech Wednesday assailed Republicans for embracing what he described as an “extreme” agenda, seeking to contrast the GOP’s economic vision for the country with his own in perhaps his most pointed criticisms of Republicans ahead of the midterm elections.

Biden zeroed in on the “11 Point Plan to Recue America” blueprint offered by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, arguing that Republicans are in favor of raising taxes on middle-class Americans.

“Let me tell you about this ultra MAGA agenda. It’s extreme, as most MAGA things are,” Biden said in remarks at the White House, seeking to tie the plan to former President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” tagline.

Biden said Scott’s plan, which has notably not been embraced by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and has created controversy within the GOP, would raise taxes on millions of American families and endanger programs like Social Security.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-seeks-to-paint-gop-as-extreme/ar-AAWVkrM

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marybourg

(13,653 posts)
3. They don't need to be painted.
Wed May 4, 2022, 02:00 PM
May 2022

They ARE extreme. Radical Reactionary is their current place on the political spectrum. The Conservative days are long over.

KPN

(17,441 posts)
4. Bullshit. He's just being frank and calling it
Wed May 4, 2022, 02:02 PM
May 2022

what it obviously is. One would have to be a right-wing extremist to think anything otherwise.

Thomas Hurt

(13,987 posts)
6. Christofascist theocrats who have more in common with Muslim jihadists than not...
Wed May 4, 2022, 02:09 PM
May 2022

call them what they are, stop dancing around it.

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randr

(12,648 posts)
7. They are the American Taliban
Wed May 4, 2022, 02:21 PM
May 2022

Imposing their own religious nonsense on everyone else.
The very same people who whine about the goberment in their lives.

blm

(114,698 posts)
8. GOP's worst extremists have overtaken the Republican Party
Wed May 4, 2022, 05:12 PM
May 2022

and the media twiddles their thumbs in denial.

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King_Klonopin

(1,385 posts)
11. It should be an easy sell -- but we always seem to find a way to fumble the ball.
Thu May 5, 2022, 03:37 AM
May 2022

Just use their own video clips and ugliness against them. . . constantly.

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