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riversedge

(70,299 posts)
Fri Sep 23, 2022, 03:22 PM Sep 2022

Pelosi: OOPS: McCarthy Accidentally Posts & Frantically Hides Extreme MAGA Agenda (But We Have Scree

I missed this yesterday................eliminating Medicare!! my god!!


McCarthy accidentally posts MAGA extreme agenda GOP to do list if they take over the House.
Slashing Social Security, eliminating Medicare, raising retirement age to 70, banning abortions with no exceptions. Eliminate insulin ceiling costs.
#MorningJoe


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OOPS: McCarthy Accidentally Posts & Frantically Hides Extreme MAGA Agenda (But We Have Screenshots...)

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



September 21, 2022
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From the Speaker's Press Office:

OOPS. Looks like Leader McCarthy fumbled his agenda rollout by accidentally posting the webpage of House Republicans’ “Commitment to America” – and then scrambled to password protect the website again…

password

…but not before we got screenshots.

Screenshots that reveal that House Republicans are doubling down on an extreme MAGA agenda: to criminalize women’s health care, to slash seniors’ Medicare (including with the repeal of the lower drug prices for seniors in the Inflation Reduction Act), and to attack our democracy.

AN EXTREME MAGA Commitment to Criminalize Women’s Health Care

From the Commitment to America Members’ toolkit:

toolkit

From the Commitment to America webpage:

health

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.

* * *

AN EXTREME MAGA Commitment to Slash Seniors’ Medicare & Social Security

From the Commitment to America Members’ toolkit:

medicare toolkit

From the Commitment to America webpage:

medicare

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.

* * *

AN EXTREME MAGA Commitment to Undermine Free Elections & Our Democracy

From the Commitment to America Members’ toolkit:

election toolkit

From the Commitment to America webpage:

election website

Incredibly, Republicans’ Extreme MAGA “Commitment to America” continues to explicitly sow doubts about the legitimacy of legally-cast ballots, fanning baseless suspicion about early voting. Their extreme agenda also pledges to make it harder for Americans to vote, purge eligible voters from the rolls, give extreme MAGA state legislatures absolute power to change the rules of elections at whim, and help insert extreme MAGA allies to disrupt polling places and vote-counting, in order to help MAGA politicians invent a basis to overturn the results of elections they don’t like.

147 House Republicans voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election on January 6, even after the violent extreme MAGA attack on the Capitol.
House Republican Leadership is whipping their Members to allow state legislatures to overturn the results of free and fair elections, to allow extreme MAGA politicians and officials to refuse to count ballots, and to refuse to send correct certificates of election or even to send false certificates in a Presidential election, by voting against the bipartisan Presidential Election Reform Act.



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Pelosi: OOPS: McCarthy Accidentally Posts & Frantically Hides Extreme MAGA Agenda (But We Have Scree (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2022 OP
K&R for exposure Blue Owl Sep 2022 #1
Worth Posting Again! I don't Cha Sep 2022 #2
Kick underpants Sep 2022 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author dewsgirl Sep 2022 #4
Yikes😬 K and R dewsgirl Sep 2022 #5
Kick & recommend for visibility bronxiteforever Sep 2022 #6
It needs repeating until everyone understands the Republican party is an extremist party. Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2022 #7
K&R UTUSN Sep 2022 #8
Terminate Social Security and Medicare after 5 years? MerryBlooms Sep 2022 #9
KnR Hekate Sep 2022 #10

Cha

(297,605 posts)
2. Worth Posting Again! I don't
Fri Sep 23, 2022, 03:39 PM
Sep 2022

think it was in a tweet yesterday and now we can spread it VIRAL!! TY!



Good on those who Got the Screenshots!!

Response to riversedge (Original post)

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,413 posts)
7. It needs repeating until everyone understands the Republican party is an extremist party.
Fri Sep 23, 2022, 06:25 PM
Sep 2022

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

THESE are the races that will determine control of the House of Representatives:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217175231

Stick 'em up for a blue wave: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217078977

MerryBlooms

(11,771 posts)
9. Terminate Social Security and Medicare after 5 years?
Fri Sep 23, 2022, 08:04 PM
Sep 2022

5 years after what? Enrollment or after republicans take control? Not sure what that terminate after 5 years references.

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