Trump isn't the only bad look for the GOP. House Republicans are getting closer to putting their debt ceiling cards on the table. According to PunchBowl News, McCarthy has deputized Louisiana establishment conservative Garrett Graves to help craft the proposal (and take the fall when it inevitably turns out to be a disaster). This is what McCarthy and his team— whatever that means— want in return for not crashing the economy: for lifting the debt limit until May 2024, they want to limit budget growth to 1% annually for the next 10 years, while rescinding unspent Covid money, explicitly prohibiting student loan forgiveness, repealing specific green tax credits to benefit their mega-donors in the oil industry, instituting work requirements for social programs, implementing the House Republican energy plan (H.R. 1) and also implementing their regulation-cutting REINS Act— because we all want more bank crashes and railroad derailments.
It’s not a serious proposal legislatively but it will certainly help define what the Republican Party stands for as we head into the 2024 elections. See it isn’t just defunding public libraries, banning books in schools and ending women’s choice that they think they’re riding into reelection next year.
They’ve now controlled the House for 100 days. What have they got to show the voters? Some messaging bills on their unpopular agenda that the Senate won’t even take up and… that’s really it— just a play to placate their MAGA base without delivering anything to the American people. And voters have noticed. New polling released Thursday by Navigator certainly shows that the natives are restless. Their report begins ominously: “Both the Republican Party (net -13 favorable) and MAGA Republicans (net -22) are viewed unfavorably by majorities of Americans. Aside from the party itself and the MAGA movement, every person polled associated with them is underwater:
George Santos: -36
Marjorie Traitor Greene: -25
Lauren Boebert: -12 (over half the respondents didn’t know who she is)
Kevin McCarthy: -10
Gym Jordan: -5 (over half the respondents didn’t know who he is)
Just a little over one in three Americans (35%) approve of Republicans in Congress overall, while 59% disapprove; they are deeply underwater on top issue priorities like inflation (net -15), guns (net -12), corruption (net -20), and Social Security and Medicare (net -14).
More than half of Americans (53%) say Republicans in Congress are focused on “oversight of the Biden administration,” while only 15% of Americans say that is a top four issue priority for them personally. By a 7-point margin, Americans say the Republican Party is “focused on the wrong things,” while a narrow plurality say the Democratic Party is “focused on the right things” (net +1). Half of Americans (49%) say “Republicans in Congress will overreach” in such investigations, including a plurality of independents (42%); just one in five (19%) say they will “do too little oversight.”
A Growing Share Say the Country Is Going to Be Worse Off a Year From Now with a GOP-Led House
Independents are most concerned about Republicans ending the guarantee of Social Security and Medicare (70% concerned), cutting Medicaid (68%), and preventing Medicare from negotiating lower drug prices (68%). Majorities of Republicans are concerned about Social Security/Medicare cuts (62%), a debt crisis (54%), and Medicaid cuts (52%).
Independents are most concerned by Republican elected officials having the wrong priorities when it comes to schools, including focusing on banning books instead of making sure students are safe from gun violence (66% total concerning).
And no mention of addressing climate change. The number one problem facing the planet and all living things. Just ignore it, that’s the plan. As Truman once said, all the good things accomplished in this country were due to progressives pushing the envelope. Where is the progressive majority that is critically necessary for all of us to address climate change? No where. Too many people are so freaking ignorant, short sighted and plain stupid.
and when the democraps were in the majority, they weren't very popular either.
... so why do they keep getting elected... by the folks who hate them so much?
oh right. american voters. say they want things but keep electing parties that won't ever do them.