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Anything? Anyone? (Original Post) 634-5789 Jan 2022 OP
A tax cut for the wealthy? world wide wally Jan 2022 #1
This!👆 SheltieLover Jan 2022 #4
Yeah. Here in Iowa Covid Kim is pushing for rsdsharp Jan 2022 #11
My home state IA is now worst than my adopted WI StClone Jan 2022 #56
Reminds Me Of My T-Shirt... GB_RN Jan 2022 #58
THIS year? When was the last time they proposed anything other than tax cuts for the wealthy? LoisB Jan 2022 #2
They also wanted to get rid of the ACA Nevilledog Jan 2022 #5
That's right. How could I forget that? LoisB Jan 2022 #6
Just what I was thinking. Arkansas Granny Jan 2022 #9
Thom H has been offering substantial cash award if you can cbabe Jan 2022 #3
Well, I guess you could count the EPA created under Nixon. I think that might have been the last LoisB Jan 2022 #8
IYou are correct. soldierant Jan 2022 #34
Thom Icanthinkformyself Jan 2022 #35
I heard two weeks from now they will do something Ohioboy Jan 2022 #7
Health care for all Traildogbob Jan 2022 #27
It's infrastructure week Icanthinkformyself Jan 2022 #36
Infradestructure week. hay rick Jan 2022 #37
McConnell announced in 2014 leftieNanner Jan 2022 #10
**crickets** 2naSalit Jan 2022 #12
Nope. Conservatives don't do change. Unless Laura PourMeADrink Jan 2022 #13
That, and Grokenstein Jan 2022 #21
The title of the book "Cruel" says it all. n/t LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jan 2022 #26
Yup because they don't want spending. Unless its Laura PourMeADrink Jan 2022 #41
+1000 smirkymonkey Jan 2022 #49
Bueller? tavernier Jan 2022 #14
LOL Blue Owl Jan 2022 #42
They have never needed policy, just same old childfreebychoice Jan 2022 #15
Welcome to DU, childfreebychoice! calimary Jan 2022 #17
Childfree I_UndergroundPanther Jan 2022 #46
GOPThe party of NO. The party of despair Nululu Jan 2022 #16
This needs to be the talking point Mr. Ected Jan 2022 #18
++ appalachiablue Jan 2022 #32
Do nothing republicans I_UndergroundPanther Jan 2022 #47
ha nice trick question! they only deal in backward! bringthePaine Jan 2022 #19
The last five years... spanone Jan 2022 #20
How about increased electoral advantages for white males? Fiendish Thingy Jan 2022 #22
Yes, Voter (POC) suppression legislation, in many many states. FailureToCommunicate Jan 2022 #23
Sabotage Biden DanieRains Jan 2022 #24
Geez, this year? Let's go back forty years. dugog55 Jan 2022 #25
Spot on. Welcome to DU! Evolve Dammit Jan 2022 #29
Bingo. paleotn Jan 2022 #39
yup Skittles Jan 2022 #51
Previous poster is right in "last 40 years." Evolve Dammit Jan 2022 #28
Whether waiting for that or waiting for Godot, I think your chances are about equal. DFW Jan 2022 #30
Voting Reform and Abortion. JohnnyRingo Jan 2022 #31
We need to reframe their messaging. Lonestarblue Jan 2022 #33
Yep I was just thinking of that. JohnnyRingo Jan 2022 #55
This year? It's been a decade or 2. Maybe 3. paleotn Jan 2022 #38
Try six or seven decades joshdawg Jan 2022 #48
Bingo! paleotn Jan 2022 #57
They didn't even have a platform during the last election Rhiannon12866 Jan 2022 #40
The repub "platform" is "I love trump"... Wounded Bear Jan 2022 #52
That's certainly what it appears like Rhiannon12866 Jan 2022 #53
How come dem pundits, leaders, officials can't make that easy case? how is it that the gop wiggs Jan 2022 #43
If they had to work in the real world they would have been fired by now SouthernDem4ever Jan 2022 #44
What do these assholes do all day? lame54 Jan 2022 #45
That's a really good question. smirkymonkey Jan 2022 #50
Easiest job ever. No policy, no work. betsuni Jan 2022 #54
Their whole agenda is.. mvd Jan 2022 #59
Because Republicans DON'T want to help you. calimary Jan 2022 #60
How about the last 40 years? OMGWTF Jan 2022 #61
They will unanimously approve motions to adjourn and go on holiday. KY_EnviroGuy Jan 2022 #62

StClone

(11,683 posts)
56. My home state IA is now worst than my adopted WI
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 12:06 PM
Jan 2022

Like choosing between shit and manure.

Hey Kim...

GB_RN

(2,350 posts)
58. Reminds Me Of My T-Shirt...
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 01:20 PM
Jan 2022

"No, you're right. Let's do it the dumbest way possible because it's easier for you!" 😂

It looks just like this one, just so you have an idea. I'm not selling it.

cbabe

(3,541 posts)
3. Thom H has been offering substantial cash award if you can
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 03:49 PM
Jan 2022

name any Republican law that benefits every day people. No winners so far.

LoisB

(7,203 posts)
8. Well, I guess you could count the EPA created under Nixon. I think that might have been the last
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 03:53 PM
Jan 2022

"positive" thing they did.

soldierant

(6,847 posts)
34. IYou are correct.
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 06:22 PM
Jan 2022

I was thinking one would have to go back before the Civil Rights Act turned Dixiecrats into Republicans. But there was that outlier.

Icanthinkformyself

(219 posts)
35. Thom
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 06:24 PM
Jan 2022

put it out there many years ago, maybe 15 or more. All he wants is just one Republican to cite just one Republican policy proposal that had as it's main focus the benefit of the average American. And, yes they have no bananas.

leftieNanner

(15,083 posts)
10. McConnell announced in 2014
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 03:56 PM
Jan 2022

When he was running for his seat, that he would not be making any policy pronouncements. Still hasn't.

And Kevin is too stupid and cowardly to actually govern.

So there's that.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
41. Yup because they don't want spending. Unless its
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 07:27 PM
Jan 2022

A tax cut. Or the dollars flow to some person business that can once again make more money.

Think the biggest scam of all was the advent of HMOs. Swear they came up with it in a cocktail napkin. "How can we make more money on something every has to have?". And they bullshitted us by saying it was focusing on health

childfreebychoice

(476 posts)
15. They have never needed policy, just same old
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 04:57 PM
Jan 2022

tired tropes...anti LGBT, anti choice, anti public Ed, blurring lines between church and state, and of course racism

calimary

(81,220 posts)
17. Welcome to DU, childfreebychoice!
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 05:01 PM
Jan 2022

They're so pathetic that they had a mere two WORDS in their "platform" statement in 2020: "donald trump."

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,463 posts)
46. Childfree
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 12:38 AM
Jan 2022

Child free,too.

Hate it when people give child free people shit.
And parents they have the gall to call us selfish.

Parents are selfish bringing more people to use up scant resources and to grow up in a climate changed world with fascists bullies and sociopaths on it.
Run by corrupted people.

A nation claiming to be a bastion of freedom where you have to work for people every day of your life
until you are over 60. Than you have a few years left to realize any dreams you had like travel or gardening or fostering cats..as age crushes your life.

Who could in thier right mind bring an innocent soul to this hellhole?


Childfree unless you count my cat Othello.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
18. This needs to be the talking point
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 05:07 PM
Jan 2022

It's about time that we shed light on the ABSENCE of the Republican Party and not just its Neopteran insect nature.

spanone

(135,828 posts)
20. The last five years...
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 05:14 PM
Jan 2022

only policies I remember were tax breaks for the wealthy and tax breaks for corporations.

dugog55

(296 posts)
25. Geez, this year? Let's go back forty years.
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 05:39 PM
Jan 2022

I don't think the GOP has come up with or backed a single bill in the last forty years that benefited 99% of Americans. Their America lives in mansions and owns Hedge Funds. Their people are certainly not the working class. Except for the morons that keep voting for them and hurting themselves in the process.

DFW

(54,365 posts)
30. Whether waiting for that or waiting for Godot, I think your chances are about equal.
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 06:02 PM
Jan 2022

After all, they remain the Party of NO:

JohnnyRingo

(18,628 posts)
31. Voting Reform and Abortion.
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 06:04 PM
Jan 2022

I know, everyone else calls it cheating elections and a Cruel Mama Government, but Republicans call that "getting the things done that the people put us in office to do".

I'm sure there were more unconstitutional hijinks they pulled off, but I'm trying to stay in a happy place today.

JohnnyRingo

(18,628 posts)
55. Yep I was just thinking of that.
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 11:32 AM
Jan 2022

There's a commercial here from some wing nut trying to ride TFG's coattails. He speaks of people who steal elections and the need to vote in person with an ID. he wraps up with the catch phrase "When leftist cheaters lose, you win".

I was thinking the reason they don't want people to vote isn't because it prevents fraud, but because "when people vote, republicans lose", a fact that has held for decades.

Rhiannon12866

(205,237 posts)
40. They didn't even have a platform during the last election
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 06:42 PM
Jan 2022

Any priorities they had were subject to TFG's ever-changing and ridiculous whims.

wiggs

(7,812 posts)
43. How come dem pundits, leaders, officials can't make that easy case? how is it that the gop
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 09:43 PM
Jan 2022

has managed to convince anyone that they are interested in governing? And why don't dems point that out every day?

I hope someone aside from Carville gets on fire with the plain truth about the gop...and that people actually see it. Maybe polarization and hate precludes a change already?

SouthernDem4ever

(6,617 posts)
44. If they had to work in the real world they would have been fired by now
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 10:22 PM
Jan 2022

for doing nothing but being dead weight to their employers - just like they are now to their voters.

mvd

(65,173 posts)
59. Their whole agenda is..
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 01:22 PM
Jan 2022

Lower taxes for the rich and corporations, rile up certain groups like racists and the anti-choice, and FREE-DUM. Nothing there at all that helps.

calimary

(81,220 posts)
60. Because Republicans DON'T want to help you.
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 01:51 PM
Jan 2022

Their whole mentality is based on that. “Rugged individualism!” “Do got yourself!” “Take care of yourself.” Nobody owes you any help.”

And damn you, why should we have to help you?” “It’s not OUR problem!” “Figure it out for yourself!”

And if you can’t, it’s YOUR fault!”
Or
“You’re just lazy.”
Or
“You’re just looking for a handout.”

Republicans. And they’ll be first and loudest to say how staunchly they believe in Our Lord Jesus.

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