1. For 8 years Scott Walker and the gerrymandered Republican pirates blamed the state deficit on Democratic Governor Jim Doyle, when in fact, it resulted from the Republican induced global collapse aka The Great Recession. They later blamed all the unemployed on Pres. Obama because he's a Democrat too.
2. Democrats brought the economy back, but Republicans said it was too slow and just not fast enough. Yet Republicans did take credit for Obama's economic recovery, low unemployment, and job growth, which they then credited to Trump.
Voting No Republicans will take Credit Again for Infrastructure: It's time to put these guys on record! Can't leave off Ron Johnson either:
The Republicans who supported the measure were an ideologically and regionally diverse group. But not a single Wisconsin Republican — Brian Steil, Scott Fitzgerald, Mike Gallagher, Glenn Grothman or Tom Tiffany — joined them.
Gallagher went so far as to release a nonsensical video is which he raged about Democrats “(barreling) ahead with their radical tax and spending spree that would dramatically reshape the American economy.”
In the spirit of National Use Your Common Sense Day, Rep. Gallagher is urging Democrats to pause their radical tax and spending spree and ask some basic questions about the policies they're pushing. pic.twitter.com/mKcUT9aYMA
That sounded more like Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ranting about how, in voting for the bill on Friday, the House majority had facilitated “Joe Biden’s Communist takeover of America via so-called infrastructure.”
Rep. Bryan Steil also opposes upgrading America's infrastructure:
The American people deserve to know the true cost of Pelosi and Biden’s massive spending bill. pic.twitter.com/x8ELvdDfKM
How about the guy that didn't even lift a finger to debate or run for Congress, Scott Fitzgerald:
“Speaker Pelosi and her party are in disarray yet again ... It is unconscionable how little regard Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats have for taxpayer dollars. The Democrat party needs to reign in their out-of-control spending, the American people cannot afford the debt of their socialist agenda.”
Infrastructure = Communism? McCarthyism is alive:
A Capitol Times editorial wrote:
He noted that a former Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower, poured resources into the interstate system in the 1950s — at the height of the Cold War. No one in their right mind thought that Eisenhower was a communist dupe or a radical.
My QAnon friend is now obsessed with capitalism, texting me about it all the time. It's a simple way for him to always call me a "communist." It's the hot word on the right, which they over use as a substitute for real thinking. But capitalism hasn't worked out so well for the American people or their living standard. Thom Hartmann put it this way:
It's when giant corporations are able to control
government and thus stop things like a national healthcare system, rational gun
control laws, free college, or even the tiniest tax on carbon. When they're
able to push through "criminal justice reform" that makes it nearly
impossible to prosecute corporate CEOs when their companies kill workers,
consumers, or even poison entire communities.
It's when they don't do it through presenting strong and
defendable ideas in the public realm and before Congress, but by pouring cash
into the pockets of individual politicians and their parties. It's when
corporations and the very rich have seized control of the political process
through the use of their considerable economic power. When government gives corporations this core
power to write laws, and, in exchange, corporations facilitate government power
to suppress dissent and marginalize non-fascist political parties, a country
finds itself on the edge of classical fascism.
Late Stage Capitalist Republican Millennials (1981-1996): Boy do theylove the fantasy 1900's they've created. But they never noticed that we're 21 years into 21st century; cell phones, computers, the internet?
Voodoo Economic Republican's Bryan Steil and Michael Gallagher: How intellectually stunted are these backward thinking 1900's holdouts? Check out their monied supporters...you know, who they hang with:
"A Milwaukee event held at the offices of The Bradley
Foundation, and co-hosted by the right-wing Institute for Reforming Government..."
Steil's Nonsensical Word Salad: Funny how spending taxpayer money on actual taxpayers is a waste of money and considered "welfare." Watch Rep. Bryan Steil falsely claim Biden's "tuition free" college plan is a federal "one-size-fits-all" debacle; or that it takes away "our well tailored workforce needs" in Wisconsin; or that we need to "make sure we keep our education system locally controlled"? Wrong. It's just 2 years of paid tuition at community colleges!!! Sorry, this was a simple one. Capitol City Sunday:
Biden Plan-Tax the Rich Now, Tax everybody else Next? According to Steil, the government is coming for you next, that's the threat he'd like you to believe it. It's best to keep the wealthy's tax cuts folks, or your next:
Steil: "Today it's high earner income, tomorrow it's everyone in Wisconsin...It would only be a quick bait-and-switch to realize that today he's going after the top 1 percent, tomorrow he'll be coming across for all Wisconsinites to pay for this reckless spending."
Steil Supply Sider; More tax cuts for business, same old 1900's thinking:
Steil: " COMMUNIST CHINA has a 25 percent corporate tax...you're going to see jobs leaving our state and going to places like COMMUNIST CHINA. What I think is really missing is leveraging the American private sector...to be able to take us to the next level, bring jobs here to the state of Wisconsin, allow people to get a high paying job in the state."
Even after Trump tax cuts increased the US debt by $2 trillion, spending money now on people and investing in America is just too costly, even though consumers make up 70 percent of the economy. Now deficits matter:
Steil: “I hold real concerns that we are going to enter an
inflationary period sooner than the Fed is projecting. And that is more
pressure as to why we have to address the level of spending we are seeing in
D.C.”
Borg-like Rep. Michael Gallagher on same page: The bottom line is, don't spend forward or invest, but cut taxes and leverage the power of business welfare.
Force labor back to work. That's the Republican message, and because they never believed in the pandemic in the first place, it's as simple as flicking a switch. No growing pains, no reluctance to safely return, no thought of consumer uncertainty, and don't wait for them to get their 2 vaccines...just get back to work.
Gallagher and Steil are eerily the same; "leveraging/incentivize the American private sector." Here and Now:
Gallagher: "If we have an uncompetitive tax code, relative to our international competitors, like COMMUNIST CHINA...we're going to see a ton of Wisconsin jobs get outsourced overseas...we should be incentivizing American manufacturing..."
One more thing: If Biden hadn't prioritized returning tech jobs and semiconductor manufacturing back to the US, it would have never been on Gallagher's and Steil's radar.
Gallagher: "I support an area of bipartisan agreement where we can invest in the technology of the future..."
Yet a week ago state Republicans trashed VP Kamala Harris' Wisconsin visit promoting technology, centered around the University of Wisconsin and so many other local tech businesses. This is governing confusion, Republican style:
Harris said the U.S. has fallen behind in recent years and that it must be able to compete — with universities playing a big role — to pursue innovation that will improve the lives of American families.
Two Wisconsin Republican legislative leaders sent Harris a letter criticizing her for not visiting southern border states. “We appreciate the visit to Wisconsin; but, respectfully, you have much bigger problems to deal with right now,” Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson called Biden’s plan a “boondoggle” and said he was interested to see how Harris justifies the spending. “Instead of creating more opportunities, it will kill people’s jobs, increase their taxes, and further implement radical leftists’ agenda. Happy to have her visit Milwaukee, but she really ought to inspect the crisis President Biden created at the border.”
That's the dumb "do nothing" GOP mantra right now that should be driving everyone crazy. "Having a conversation" is an outgrowth of the failed idea pushing "we need to have a debate," but it's just as nonsensical.
Paul Ryan's generic look-alike replacement Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI) appeared on WKOW's Capitol City Sunday blathering on and on about "having a conversation," which in plain terms means "all talk, no action." I suspect this is what he's running on, having a conversation, while at the same time telling voters to forget about solving the big problems. You can't make this stuff up.
Here's a compilation of Steil's "having a conservation" rhetorical crutch:
Steil another Trump Racism Appeaser: Reporter Emilee Fannon wasn't shy about making this safe observation about Steil's disastrous dodge over Trump's obvious racism...
Congressman Bryan Steil (R-WI) refused to answer whether or not he believes President Trump tweets two weeks ago were “racist.”
No, really? Steil blamed "both sides;" the four congresswomen for being women and looking foreign, and Trump's blatant "go back" to where you came from racism. This is a remarkable, rehearsed, and unforgettable fumble:
Steil Favors a "Natural Force" to Raise Wages...by inserting Government of course: Starting with the current actual numbers showing the "natural forces" of the marketplace at work stagnating wages for the last 40 years...
Steil repeats Scott Walker's excuse for not raising the minimum wage; he blames the "skill gap," and wants "government focused in on solving that problem to allow people to see higher wages." Gotta love that "natural force." Wages haven't gone up even with their current trained workforce. By the way, having better high paying jobs doesn't eliminate current minimum wage jobs they claim were never meant to raise a family on. And that's written in stone where...?:
Republican like familiarity, so despite political swings in power, they keep using the same outdated cliches.
1. How many times have you heard Scott Walker rip "Madison" for always telling the rest of Wisconsin what to do and how to live? Yet "Madison's" state house is now controlled by Republicans, and Walker is still making that same argument.
2. Why are Walker and his band of plundering Republican pirates warning voters not to return to times of high unemployment and huge state deficits under the Democrats, when in fact it was the Republican Great Recession that trashed our state economy, not the Democrats?
And finally... 3. Why are Republican candidates still pretending to run against an overspending dysfunctional government, when in fact, they're the ones in control?
Take 1st Congressional District Republican candidate Bryan Steil's trashing of the GOP Congress. He says the whole system is broken? I like the honesty.
I edited his crazy quilt of cliched comments to highlight the lunacy. Example 1 (gun control): "Let's enforce the rules on the books now." Wow, he's taken gun control back the very first stall tactics. Example 2: That old "I'm from the private sector." Example 3: "The system is broken." Example 4: "We have a non-stop crisis factory." Example 5: "We have an ongoing cycle of spending..." WKOW's Capitol City Sunday
Meanwhile, the Democrats...want to fund their own agenda that promises to make American life better, taking their cue from Republican spending:
Republicans passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut last year, following it up with a $1.3 trillion spending plan this year. But while their party has long nurtured an image as fiscal watchdogs, they have barely talked about spending on the campaign trail. “Democrats have put ourselves at a longtime, strategic disadvantage,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii). “We have to pay for progressive priorities, and they borrow money for theirs. After the tax cut, there’s almost no enthusiasm for worrying about how to pay for new proposals.” “Members of both parties have recently moved to dreaming big dreams without figuring out how to pay for it,” said Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.). Spelling out the cost as part of a policy rollout was a trap. While Clinton designed spending plans that could be paid for, adding nothing to the deficit, Trump proposed huge tax cuts and vast spending while also promising to wipe out the national debt within eight years. “We fronted the idea that everything would be paid for, that everything added up, and I don’t think we got any credit for it.”
___________________________________________________________________________ Two can play the repeal game: What makes more sense, giving more money to those who have it or wiping out college debt and reducing the cost of a college education from now on?
Trump showed just how out of touch with reality he is by tantruming over Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) introducing a bill to repeal his tax cuts for the wealthy and use the funds to erase $1.4 trillion in student loan debt. Rep. Polis said of his bill, “The Republican tax plan was all about special interests cashing in at the expense of everyone else. My plan shows what a difference we can make for middle-class Americans for even less cost. So many people go to school, get a job, and work hard but still struggle to get ahead because they are weighted down by student loans. It’s time to help them get out from the mountain of debt they are under. The good news is – if we repeal the Republicans’ sweetheart deals for corporations, we can cancel out all student loan debt, make college more affordable for future students, and still have money left over to reduce our deficit.”
