U.S. Politics

[Rick Plant]

Radical Republicans want to ban birth control in America. Their "NO" vote just confirmed it. Republicans want to control your lives and take away more of your freedoms. If Republicans ever gain control of Congress they will ban condoms, because under their "religious beliefs", they feel Americans should not have access to them. The GOP is no longer a political party, they are a religious cult.   

Bill Pascrell, Jr. @ BillPascrell

We just voted to keep birth control legal in America and 96% of republicans voted no. 96%!



https://twitter.com/BillPascrell/status/1550146164217061377

[Rick Plant]

This is what Republicans are against. What are they for?




House Republicans voted against capping insulin at $35. They voted against their own diabetic constituents.

Republicans want diabetics to be gouged by Big Pharma taking advantage of these people who need their life saving medication. Otherwise they would have voted "YES" to cap these outrageous insulin prices. 

Democrats voted to cap insulin at $35 and now Republicans in the Senate are blocking this bill from becoming law. 

[Rick Plant]

Brand New Navigator Survey data.

Support for Biden/Dem econ plan (aka reconciliation) is OVERWHELMING.

OVERALL: +55
- Support: 71%
- Oppose: 16%

INDEPENDENTS: +50
- Support: 62%
- Oppose: 12%

REPUBLICANS: +18
- Support: 62%
- Oppose: 12%

[Rick Plant]

What if two years ago, I told you that by the end of Biden's first two years:

- 10 million new jobs
- 3.6% unemployment
- 86% drop in COVID death rate
- secured vaccines for ALL Americans
- best pandemic economic recovery in the world
- biggest ever infrastructure bill PASSED
- first gun safety bill in 30 yrs PASSED
- American Rescue Plan that gave the middle class money in their pockets and funded police departments PASSED 

(wait, just getting started...keep reading)

-  Medicare bulk purchasing PASSED
-  electoral college reform PASSED
-  restart of the U.S. microchip industry PASSED
-  got Mexico to pay $1,5 Billion for border security 

If this is where we end up at the end of 2022, this matches up even higher against any modern President's first 2 years.

In fact, presidents don't even accomplish this is 4 years.

Which other president in modern day history created 10 million new jobs, passed the largest bipartisan infrastructure bill in history, lowered unemployment to the lowest level, passed a gun safety bill, and got Mexico to pay for border security?

None.

No other President ever accomplished that in 4 years. President Joe Biden has done all that in less than 2 yeats plus more.

Results matter and Biden has delivered on his campaign promises and is doing the work the majority of Americans want.                 

[Rick Plant]

'The state of the party is a disaster': Adam Kinzinger unloads on the GOP leadership

At the conclusion of an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Monday, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) was asked what he sees in the future for the Republican Party after its dalliance with Donald Trump.

After bringing fill-in host Jonathan Lemire up to date on what to expect from the House select committee investigating the Jan 6th insurrection incited by the former president, Lemire asked, "You mentioned that democracy itself would be in jeopardy were Trump not to be potentially prosecuted. It seems like most members of your party are still standing with him; the poll numbers are dipped just a little and we have seen a few voices like Mike Pence say they're going to run for president. But the vast majority of the GOP still wants to follow, or seems to want to follow Donald Trump. What is your take on the state of the republican party, that that could be the case despite everything the hearings have laid out?

"The state of the party is a disaster," the clearly disgusted GOP lawmaker stated. "Look, there are -- there are anecdotal -- I have people that tell me, 'Hey, my dad was addicted to Fox News, never thought anything wrong with Donald Trump, now he hates him because of these hearings.' I hear anecdotal things like that and there are movements that are occurring."

"I think in the medium and particularly in the long-term, Donald Trump will be persona non grata in this country because of this," he continued, "but in the short term, it takes leaders."

"I always thought when you got elected to Congress, this is my naivete as a kid, that you coming out here to lead. What I have learned is that but leadership is extremely, exceedingly rare in this job, and people are more interested in maintaining the title and getting re-elected," he continued without naming names. "Look, you have Republicans that only trust Republican leaders and when there's only two Republican leaders that are currently elected that are telling you the truth, myself, Liz [Cheney], maybe Mitt Romney and a few others, it's easy to demonize us."

"We're not the ones lying to you, fellow Republican voters," he added. "It's the people too scared to tell you the truth. That's a choice you have to make. All I can do is say truth and I'll do that any day of the week."

Watch the video below:

[Rick Plant]

'Cowardly, pathetic, defenestrating' Josh Hawley torn to shreds for J6 cowardice



On Friday's edition of MSNBC's "The Beat," anchor Ari Melber shredded Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) following newly released footage showing him sprinting for his life through the halls of the Capitol away from the January 6 insurrectionists.

This comes after Hawley was famously photographed pumping his fist in support of the rioters — which he claims he did before he knew they would commit acts of violence against police officers and threaten to kill members of Congress.

"Now this week ... has newly revealed evidence that shows exactly how Senator Hawley responded to those people he cheered," said Melber. "And to the results he claimed to want. Take a look. He ran, he scurried, he ran fearing for his physical safety and life, fearing those very scary people he claimed to support and cheer. He was apparently aware that those people might beat him or murder and assassinate him if they even got near him. Video shows that Hawley got farther from that main breach to those underground stairways where he continued to do what senators never do in their own halls of power: scurrying with fear, down the stairwell to get away from the people he cheered."

"Let me tell you something," said Melber. "Let me put it plainly, as we try to do around here. Rarely do you ever see a public figure's hypocrisy and cowardice crystallized into the peak of the historic crisis that he helped create, all in one day. That is what the nation is now seeing. How Hawley started and ended his day on January 6. The lead senator pushing the plot on the Senate floor, and then found himself running away from the very forces he helped unleash. So you are running and running and running away. But you cannot run away from yourself."

Melber then quoted Bob Marley: "When you are running like that, you must've done something wrong."

"That is why so many people, regardless of party or ideology, can feel the gut reaction to that cowardly, pathetic defenestration strip sprints by this man, this freshman, this politician," said Melber. "And it is deeper than just a moment, because we get so many things boil down to these little moments. Not just a moment. Think about it. The Republican Party of Trump and Pence and Hawley is quite literally running away from its own worst creations, from itself. And that is just the fact. It is a truth, and there is room for reckoning."

Watch below:

[Rick Plant]

Rick Scott is the guy who wrote the Republican tax plan to raise taxes on millions of middle class Americans and to effectively end Social Security & Medicare. That's why people are not donating money to radical MAGA Republican candidates. People do not want to pay high taxes and do not want their social security taken away under the GOP.

Rick Scott 'worried' about GOP Senate prospects as party struggles to raise money



On Monday, writing for CNN, political analyst Chris Cillizza broke down how Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is "worried" that the party isn't raising enough money to juggle all of its competitive Senate races.

"'Look, we have great candidates, we have every reason to believe we can win,' the Florida senator said in a speech at the America First Policy Institute summit on Monday. 'The issue we've got is we've got to raise money,'" wrote Cillizza. "Scott, who runs the Senate Republicans' campaign arm, is pointing to the vast fundraising deficit that some of the top-tier Republican candidates face with less than four months before the midterm elections."

In virtually every key race, Cillizza noted, Republicans are getting outraised.

"In Georgia, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock raised $17.2 million between April 1 and June 30, ending the period with more than $22.2 million in the bank. By contrast, Republican Herschel Walker had just $6.8 million on hand," wrote Cillizza. "In Arizona, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly raised nearly $13.6 million during the second quarter and ended June with roughly $25 million in the bank. Republicans remain mired in a divisive and costly primary that won't conclude until next month ... In Pennsylvania, Democratic nominee John Fetterman raised nearly $11 million over the three-month period, doubling what celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee, brought in. Even in Ohio, a GOP-leaning state, Democrat Tim Ryan outraised Republican J.D. Vance by a 9-1 margin from April through the end of June."

Scott, who took over as NRSC chair at the end of 2020, has generated controversy for Senate Republicans by introducing an "11 point plan to rescue America" that includes, among other things, making lower-income people pay more income taxes and requiring huge government programs like Social Security and Medicare be re-authorized every five years.

"Scott's move is strategic. He is hoping to wake up Republican donors (and the candidates they give to) to the fact that they are facing a serious deficit in the money fight at the moment," concluded Cillizza. "The reality, however, is that time is running out for Republicans in the cash dash. TV ads are already running in a number of states — Ryan, for example, has already spent millions on commercials — and ad time for the fall is starting to look scarce."

You can read more here:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/25/politics/rick-scott-republican-campaign-money/index.html