.@SpeakerPelosi on MSNBC was asked whether former President Trump will testify before Congress. She responded, "I don't think he's man enough to show up."
— Aamer Madhani (@AamerISmad) October 23, 2022
Don’t make her give you The Look… and remember: Sharing is caring!
Democrats have been laser-focused on lowering the cost of living for America’s working families. @POTUS & @HouseDemocrats have sparked a record-setting jobs recovery, and at the same time, we have enacted landmark laws to make progress toward lowering the cost of living.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) October 22, 2022
The #AmericanRescuePlan lowered health care costs, extended needed unemployment benefits and delivered a vital lifeline in the Child Tax Credit.
Again, every single Republican voted No on this important law.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) October 22, 2022
The #CHIPSandScienceAct reinvigorates American semiconductor manufacturing, strengthens supply chains and invests in innovation.
187 House Republicans voted No on this law.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) October 22, 2022
We know more must be done to lower the cost of living for America’s working families. We will continue our fight to put #PeopleOverPolitics — with lower costs, better-paying jobs & safer communities. Read more on @HouseDemocrats actions on inflation here: https://t.co/qRy7J4AVoh
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) October 22, 2022
The Stakes: Social Security and Medicare, a woman’s right to choose, the planet, the cost of living and cost of Rx drugs, which Democrats lowered with NO Republican votes — ALL on the line.
REPUBLICANS HAVE NO PLAN to lower inflation or the cost of living for families.
VOTE!-NP pic.twitter.com/HtuUhs2nKR
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) October 23, 2022
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UncleEbeneezer
If only Dems would give us a reason to vote for them..
PS- FIRST! Motherfu…
Xavier
Republicans do have a plan to lower inflation: cut spending and raise interest rates so that higher unemployment cuts demand. Chairman Powell said it bluntly a couple of weeks ago. Unemployment has to be a lot higher to bring down inflation. The fact that this will be disastrous for the unemployed doesn’t bother them…
Jackie
Rick Scott has the Plan. McCarthy endorsed the Plan. Every Democratic candidate needs to share the Republican Plan.
piratedan
@UncleEbeneezer: “but I’m not sure that it’s alright to label the GOP as Fascists, whatever happened to Bipartisanship?…..
sure, they call them Demoncrats and accuse them of being Communists and pedophiles, but when the Dems fight back, it brings into question if there can ever be comity once again….”
eclare
Sec Pete on Colbert tonight! And Ina Garten!
UncleEbeneezer
And a Bi-Racial friend of mine in AZ, had someone (not a poll worker) ask to see his Early Voting ballot envelope, as he was dropping it off. Grrr….
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jackie:
Here’s what I’m wondering.
Social Security is the third rail of American politics, right? It and Medicare are incredibly popular programs, including among their constituents. This should be electoral suicide to announce attempts to cut these programs, should it not? Why would they announce something like this weeks before a close election? What do they know that the rest of us don’t?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Xavier:
I honestly believe it does bother Powell. Why else did he and others on the FOMC wait so long (too long imo) to start raising interest rates? For months he and others insisted high inflation would be “transitory”. That of course turned out to be false. I think it’s wrong to lump Powell and the FED in with the others; they’re just doing their jobs according to the dual mandate they are required to fulfill by law, which in addition to encouraging full employment also includes maintaining price stability.
Inflation is hurting vulnerable people right now.
I don’t think blunt interest rate hikes are the complete answer, but nobody else seems to be stepping up to the plate
bbleh
“I don’t think he’s man enough to show up.”
I STILL can’t figure out why the MAGA incels and patriarchal authoritarians and Christianists don’t LIKE her …
bbleh
@Xavier: @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): exactly right about the dual mandate, and still not clear to me why they think reducing demand via increased unemployment via increased interest rates — at best a doubly indirect and therefore considerably longer-term means — will be much help dealing with fking supply-side inflation.
As much as I hate to say it, it kinda supports the notion that the Fed — like many other agencies — is subject to “regulatory capture,” in this case by financial interests. (In their defense, there are signs that they may be wavering on further large rate increases. I certainly hope so!)
And as to “stepping up to the plate,” I would note that American supply chains have largely been sorted out — immediate ones due to climate change (ahem) obviously excepted but also obviously short-term — but overseas ones have not, nor have overseas production constraints (their risks of recession are, variously, worse and considerably more material than ours), and nor has profiteering by US companies. (If anyone asks, I’ll start with gas prices.) Fact is, in a globalized economy, a single country can’t do much about supply-side inflation (not that this is anything that could possibly be explained by our Fourth Estate).
James E Powell
@Jackie:
Still amazes me that that is not a TV ad running nationally.
I would like an explanation.
Sure hope they’re not counting on Chuck Todd or CNN to tell the people about it.
Matt McIrvin
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): They probably still think they can call them “entitlements” and then nobody will twig to the fact that “entitlements” are the same thing as Medicare and Social Security. Everyone loves Medicare and Social Security, everyone hates entitlements. Ugh, people are so entitled these days!
Anyway, I don’t know if that trick still works. Usually, when you see people doing something blatantly stupid and the question is “what do they know that we don’t?”, they don’t.
Jackie
@James E Powell: Me, too. Nancy is doing a great job warning voters what’s in store for “us” if we lose the House. It’s getting the message to Faux News and their ilk, that’s the problem. The majority of their viewers will be directly impacted; as they tend to be older, but they live in the Faux Bubble.
I’m really hoping the Independent voters VOTE.
James E Powell
@Jackie:
While watching baseball over the weekend, I saw the TV ad that Democrats all voted against deporting criminals at least 20 times. That’s what it takes to get the message out. It is a lie – the vote they cite is a Rubio motion to refer the bill back to judiciary committee – and we already deport criminals so there’s no need to vote on that. But that repetition will result in people believing it’s true.
I also finally saw one & only one Katie Porter ad attacking her opponent. I would sure hate to lose her because the price of gas is too high.
Jackie
@James E Powell: I saw several of those. The NLCS was broadcast on Fox.
The WS will also be aired on Fox, so we can expect more of the same.
trollhattan
We’re Number Four! We’re Number Four! We’re Number Four!
Almost.
Jackie
@trollhattan: Congratulations!!!
Almost ;D
Yutsano
@trollhattan: Great! Now try modifying Prop 13 so only personal properties are affected.
Another Scott
Just finished my 50 postcards for PostcardPatriots (25 for Luria in VA-2, 25 for Wild in PA-7 (and the rest of Team D in PA)). My writing hand is unhappy, but the rest of me feels good.
Forward!! Let’s run up the score!!
Cheers,
Scott.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@Xavier: I give you Alexandra Petri: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/21/vote-republican-economy-worse-satire/
KrackenJack
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Not sure if it is still the third rail. In the past, even talking about it would get AARP riled up and they’d flood the offending congress critter’s office with mail. I don’t think they are a credible threat any more. Faux news has taken control of their demographic and tribalism wins out over self-interest. AARP is cowed. They aren’t willing to risk having half of their members quit and then turn on them for promoting their interests and telling the truth.
That’s the problem with appeasement; once you start, it gets harder and harder to stop.
Aussie Sheila
@bbleh: Thank you for explaining that to Goku. Completely independent central banks are one of the worst innovations of the recent capitalist order.
Our Reserve bank will send us into recession if they aren’t careful, and as for the UK-good grief I don’t know how much more their people can take.
This recent innovation was invented to keep democratically elected governments away from the money supply. This is a very bad idea, like the US filibuster. Democratic accountability for actions and votes takes is far preferable to ‘innovative’ technical solutions, which ignore democratic accountability, and obscure who is doing what and for what reasons.
Gvg
@Matt McIrvin: you are wrong, lots of people don’t love social security and Medicare. Many people hate it, and I don’t mean just rich people who don’t need it, I mean gullible people who think they don’t need it, who think they can do better investing that relatively small amount of their own paychecks in their own ideas of wealth building. In other words, we have had stability and safety long enough that people think it is normal and permanent. That nobody ever worked and created that safety, such as FDR and the Democratic Party in the past and nobody has to keep collecting taxes in the here and now to keep that safety and that nothing will go wrong if they remove the brake line. It happens in history about every 3 generations. Go listen to a bunch of people. A fair number of confident successful people or even unsuccessful people have no idea how a bunch of important things work. Like money. Fooling around with the debt ceiling. The gold standard romantics. Libertarians. Cut taxes to educations and roads. Blithering idiots. There are a lot of haters about social security and Medicare who economically will need it themselves but don’t seem to know that. Have been for awhile, but there are more and more of them. Most I have heard seem to be men but not sure that is a valid sample.
Matt McIrvin
@Gvg: My experience is that people like that are below retirement age and convinced Social Security and Medicare are going to go away and not be there for them, so why are they paying for them? And it becomes, perhaps, a self-fulfilling prophecy.
catclub
When unemployment was at 8% in 2009 the Fed had very little idea of what to do. When inflation is at 8% they know exactly what to do, and hard. Dual mandate my ass.
catclub
@Gvg:
 
This is the Minsky paradox, the more stable things are for longer, the worse the instability will be when it comes.
Brachiator
@Xavier:
Don’t know if this thread is completely dead.
This seems stupid. I would like to know why they think demand is a problem. Except for some supply chain issues, I don’t see where demand is not being satisfied. America still throws away weekly more than many countries produce in a year.
bbleh
@catclub: Again not to take the Fed’s side unduly, but their controls have been likened to a string: you can pull on it, more firmly or less (induce recession or ease up on recessionary policies) but you can’t push on it (stimulate the economy).
When things are in a slump, it’s fiscal tools you need, ie spending, ie Congress. FFS even Milton Friedman admitted that Keynes was right on that point.
StringOnAStick
@KrackenJack: I’m not sure how many RW seniors are AARP members, to be honest. My RW reactionary father had to leave his wife’s government health care plan because she took an option that left him hanging should she die first (she did), and his best bet for supplemental plans for Medicare was an AARP plan. He refers to it as “that lefty outfit”, but he buys their insurance because its the best deal, and tosses all the monthly AARP literature immediately in the trash; they might be “lefties” in his view but a buck is a buck, right?