hat tip to EarlG at femocraticunderground.com

Boy, that didn’t take long, did it? Is the ink even dry on the paper that President Biden signed a couple of weeks ago to  kick the debt ceiling idiocy down the road a couple of years? Just like doing business with any dishonest crook, as soon as the deal was signed Republican leadership is working hard on undermining it.

The deal was signed somewhere around June 5th. As I look at my calendar, that was less than two weeks ago. Within a week, Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced that he was forming a commission to look at cutting Social Security. Remember that about two months ago that very same Kevin McCarthy promised that there is no way his party would touch Social Security and Medicare.

What a surprise, Kevin McCarthy lied. He lied to the country when he made that promise. He knew he would renege on that promise in a New York second.

As soon as the deal was reached the extremist far right let  McCarthy know that they were mad and ready to take McCarthy down. Being the coward that he is McCarthy immediately backed down to them.

Now the list of cuts that Republicans are demanding that are in opposition to the debt ceiling deal they just agreed to is long and growing. Can’t trust these people for a second. Sort of reminds of that old story of the snake that promised he would not bite the man who would help him cross the river.

The man took the snake on his boat and the crossed the river. As they got to the other side, the snake bit the main the leg. As he lay dying the man said to the snake “You promised you would not bite me!” The snake responded “What did you expect? I am a snake after all!” 

So once again the far right extremist Republicans slip on the old snake skin and says wickedly “What did you expect?” 

Along with cutting Social Security, McCarthy and his ‘governing for the rich’ colleagues plan on cutting taxes for the wealthy and turning medicare into a vouchered system similar to other health insurance plans plus cutting services to the disabled. From raw story: 

Far from raising taxes on the rich, the RSC (Republican Study Committee) budget calls for massive tax cuts by proposing a permanent extension of the individual tax provisions of the 2017 Trump-GOP tax law. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that such a move would add $2.5 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade.

The RSC budget also targets Medicare with a “premium support model” that would subsidize private insurance plans, effectively transforming Medicare into a voucher program—an idea previously advanced by former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).

Altman pointed out that the plan contains a “particularly cruel provision” that “would force disability beneficiaries to wait five long years (instead of the current two, which is already too long) before becoming eligible for Medicare benefits.”

“Outrageously, this change would deprive some of the most medically vulnerable people in America of healthcare,” said Altman. “This provision alone would inevitably lead to more medical bankruptcies and increased homelessness.”

The GOP proposal also demands work requirements for “all federal benefit programs” and sides with the pharmaceutical industry in calling for a repeal of Inflation Reduction Act provisions aimed at lowering prescription drug costs.

This should make any average American seethe with disgust with the way that once more Republicans are threatening to pull the rug out from under them while loading up the tax cuts and give-aways to the rich.

You have to wonder how long people will keep voting for a Republican Party that wrecks plans for average Americans while playing to the rich and using their ownership of media to divert talking points to villainizing trans people and immigrants. Enough of this crap governance – vote for congress members that will support the vast majority of Americans.

And for Iowans, our members of congress couldn’t care less about you and I. If you contact their offices you probably won’t get an answer. Even if you do get an answer, the chances of changing a Republican vote to go against the party line are almost nil. Iowa’s congress members are party first with little consideration for the nation as a whole.