McCarthy unveils House GOP's midterm agenda in Pennsylvania

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By LISA MASCARO

MONONGAHELA, Pa. (AP) — House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy on Friday confronted President Joe Biden and the Democratic majority in Congress with a sweeping midterm election agenda filled with Trump-like promises, hoping not only to defeat Democrats but to hold together the uneasy coalition of his own party and pass actual legislation.

McCarthy, who is poised to seize the speaker’s gavel if Republicans win control of the House in the fall, hopes to replicate the strategy that former Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia used to spark voter enthusiasm and gain a majority in 1994. Victories in battleground Pennsylvania, where McCarthy announced the agenda, could be a crucial step in November.

The House GOP’s “Commitment to America” gives a nod to the earlier era but updates it in the age of Donald Trump, with economic, border security and social policies to rouse the former president’s deep well of supporters in sometimes-overlooked regions like this rusty landscape and rolling farmland outside Pittsburgh.

“What the ‘Commitment’ is, it’s a plan for a new direction,” McCarthy said at a manufacturing facility in a historic building near downtown.



Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., right, listens as House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks at DMI Companies in Monongahela, Pa., Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. McCarthy joined with other House Republicans to unveil their "Commitment to America" agenda. (AP Photo/Barry Reeger)


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[BumRushDaShow]

1. "former president's deep well of supporters"

A big pile of them succumbed to COVID. That "well" is pretty shallow at the moment.

He and "Getrich" belong in prison.

[TeamProg]

2. 'Ain't gonna happen'.

Qevin!

[Warpy]

3. TLP was correct, no policies, just platitudes (and propaganda)

Republicans want to kill this country stone dead, installing a dictator of their choosing.

One hopes we can keep outvoting the assholes.

[Botany]

4. Sorry this what they are really planning

The extreme MAGA House GOP is already on record about how they intend to implement their extreme plans for a federal law to criminalize abortion in all 50 states:

166 House Republicans, including GOP Whip Scalise and Chair Stefanik, have co-sponsored a “Life Begins at Conception” bill that would use the 14th Amendment to criminalize all abortion after the moment of fertilization, with absolutely no exceptions for rape, incest or the health of the woman.
179 House Republicans have co-sponsored or endorsed as members of the Republican Study Committee a bill to criminalize abortion nationwide after six weeks, before most women even know they are pregnant, with no exceptions for rape or incest, explicitly punishable by 5-year sentences in federal prison for doctors.
205 House Republicans voted in support of arresting, finding or suing women for traveling across state lines to obtain an abortion.
195 House Republicans voted against the fundamental right to contraception.
210 House Republicans voted against restoring the fundamental rights that women had for almost 50 years under Roe v. Wade, with the Women’s Health Protection Act.

The extreme MAGA Commitment to America promises to repeal the lower drug prices Democrats delivered for America’s seniors as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, handing hundreds of billions of dollars back to Republicans’ pals in Big Pharma.

Meanwhile, the overwhelming majority of House Republicans have explicitly called for going even further by gutting Medicare and Social Security:

158 out of 212 House Republicans, including top GOP leadership Members Whip Scalise and Chair Stefanik, have called for slashing and privatizing Social Security, raising the retirement age to 70 and ending Medicare as we know it as part of the Republican Study Committee FY2023 budget.
Top GOP Senator Rick Scott continues to push Senate Republicans’ plan to terminate Social Security and Medicare after five years.
Senior GOP Senator Ron Johnson called for putting Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block for Republicans to slash at will every year.
193 House Republicans voted against limiting seniors’ and families’ co-pay for insulin to $35 per month, with the Affordable Insulin Now Act.

https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/92122-1

[MarcA]

9. Agreed. They should be treated as the Enemy they are. n/t

[Botany]

10. Joe Biden, "They Are About To Find Out"

About pissed off women.

[Bayard]

17. I'm saving this info

Thanks.

[Botany]

28. They (the GOP/MAGA shits) should be crushed in the elections this fall

Sticking with the biggest criminal in American history (trump)

Telling women that they own their bodies

Cutting Social Security, Medicare, making insulin more expensive, and raising the retirement age

[Bayard]

34. You gotta hope

Especially if people look at the issues at stake, and not just party.

[dsc]

5. Trump's latest approval rating is 34%

I would bet my next 50 paychecks that no way no how, when Biden was at 38% approval AP wrote anything remotely like what is below.

On Friday, he stood with a wide cross-section of lawmakers — from far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to less extreme GOP members of Congress — to roll out the party’s agenda, offering a portrait of unity despite the wide range of views that make up the House minority — and the Republican Party nationally. The GOP has shifted from its focus on small government, low taxes and individual freedoms to a more populist, nationalist and, at times, far-right party, essentially still led by Trump, who remains popular despite the deepening state and federal investigations against him.

[Sky Jewels]

18. The AP is very right-leaning.

Almost all their political articles are framed to prop up Republicans and disparage Dems.

[LenaBaby61]

32. REALLY THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

You're correct.

I know someone who used to work for the AP that's retired now (He worked there only 2 years), and he told me that the AP has always leaned right and tried to stretch the truth as much as they could in favor of the GQP in their reporting, and that was over 35 years ago. I spoke to him just last month, and he told e don't even bother reading the AP--tell that to your friends also.

[barbtries]

6. i take it that "new direction"

is aimed at the past. No rights for women, minorities, marginalized populations, or anyone else who isn't white, male, and well to do. No more social safety net, health care only for the rich, child labor, women as chattel, etc. it's dystopian and cruel and fuck them all to hell.

i hate republicans.

[CrispyQ]

12. A new direction aimed at the past.

That would make a great tagline & followed with your bullet points.

[Sky Jewels]

19. "So we beat on

boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

[barbtries]

21. i had to google it!

and I read that book, though it was many decades ago.

so we do, so we do

[Sky Jewels]

23. The English major in me reared its head.

[barbtries]

25. English major here,

no excuses. it's a good quote.

[William Seger]

7. Nothing resembling a "plan" there, and they're certainly not revealing their real agenda

After blaming Biden for inflation and the influx of asylum seekers, they're hoping voters are too stupid to notice they've got nothing because they're not really interested in problem-solving, anyway. As always, their real agenda will be the further enrichment of those already the most well-off.

[DinahMoeHum]

8. Kevin's Plan, according to the Lincoln Project. . .

[Tommymac]

11. This makes ALL Republicans MAGA Republicans. THEY ARE ALL FASCISTS or enablers.

THAT is the message we need to spread wide and far.

GOTV GOTV GOTV

#GOTV2022
#ROEVEMBER2022
#VOTEBLUE2022

[videohead5]

13. On Twitter

McCarthy posted, "Are you better off today than you were 2 years ago" Republicans must have bad memories. 2 years ago, thousands of people were dying from COVID. We had 7.9% unemployment and 13 million people out of work. We are much better off today.

[Deminpenn]

14. Good job to roll out an agenda to cut SS and Medicare

in a state with one of the oldest populations in the US.

And Lou Barletta was on the anti-immigrant bandwagon long before McCarthy and he got crushed in the PA Republican primary for governor despite all the establishment Rs trying to consolidate around him.

Lastly, without Trump as the carny barker, none of his policies are popular.

[blue neen]

16. I know, right?

What was the strategic thinking behind that move?

[Deminpenn]

29. Doubt there was any and I didn't read anything

about Matriano and/or Oz sharing the stage, but maybe they'll chime in on twitter or gab in Mastriano's case.

[blue neen]

15. Isn't it interesting that they don't show any of the western PA reps there.

Probably because they are completely irrelevant, like that Trump stooge, Guy Reschenthaler. I can't believe our tax dollars go to paying this moron's salary.

[Deminpenn]

30. I read a comment from Reschenthaler, figured he was there.

Wasn't he? Wasn't this event in his district?

The comments after the P-G story are a hoot. McCarthy didn't fool many.

[blue neen]

33. Reschenthaler probably was there, but the media didn't feature him in the pictures.

I saw, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Steve Scalise, Elise Stefanik.

[Deminpenn]

35. Dem leadership was in Pittsburgh yesterday

Saw the headline, but haven't read the story yet.

[Martin68]

20. Anyone with a brain knows that a Trump promise is not a promise.

Just like his companies and charities are not companies and charities. They are all frauds.

[Mawspam2]

22. Another Gingrich Contract on America.

[no_hypocrisy]

24. KOMMITMENT TO AMERIKA:

Kinder, Küche, Kirche

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder,_K%C3%BCche,_Kirche

Nein Danke

[ificandream]

26. Just continually call it ANTI-AMERICAN. Which is most certainly is.

[paleotn]

27. Agenda for 1994.

It's well past its expiration date. I won't play well in 2022.

[andym]

31. It should be called what it is: "Commitment to MAGA"

That's just the reality with Trump as king of the clowns and DeSantis as Court Jester.