I guess if you can’t legislate you have to try to fake it until you make it. That is what the REIN IN inflation bill does. It’s got a catchy title and it gives the impression that the party of fiscal responsibility is actually doing something to protect the public coffers.
And if you buy that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn you’ll love.
Jamie Raskin isn’t having it. Two minutes of truth, best thing you’ll hear all day.
Thank You Rep. Jamie Raskin. RT to remind the GOP pic.twitter.com/2Q381CAxB3
— Rich from Cali 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (@TheRichFromCali) March 3, 2023
The debate reflected an attempt by Republicans to blame Biden for inflation that reached a 40-year high during his tenure. Republicans fault Democratic spending, particularly a 2021 pandemic relief law, for the spike. Democrats say high inflation was a global phenomenon triggered mostly by supply chain disruptions from the pandemic, along with food and fuel cost spikes from the Ukraine war.
Most Democrats dismissed the bill as a partisan stunt that would impose administrative costs while doing nothing to curb inflation. The measure is unlikely to survive in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
“While Democrats passed numerous laws last Congress that are successfully reducing inflation every month, House Republicans have come up with nothing more than a study in response,” said Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo.
It’s a study. It’s not a solution, it’s a study. Well, I suppose studying is better than nothing at all, right? A preliminary step, maybe, the precursor to something actually happening? Nevertheless, as innocuous as this bill is, there is intra party fighting with the extreme right, like always. Even on a study.
Four Republicans voted against the measure: Andy Biggs of Arizona, Bob Good of Virginia and Matt Rosendale of Montana — all of whom were holdouts to the end against the election of Speaker Kevin McCarthy — as well as Texas’ Chip Roy.
Kevin McCarthy’s House is one where anarchy rules the day. Still, it is amusing to watch the Republicants spin their wheels.
While possibly amusing, it’s also frustrating as hell watching them SCREW us out of our tax dollars, wasting OUR money right and left and still walking away obscenely wealthy from their corruption and mental masturbation on OUR DIME.
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
They can do the study, but they’re going to learn that corporations raising prices to make bigger profits are a big cause.
Oh, noes! Look to the corporations for some kind of accountability for anything? Blasphemy! Heresy! Off with your head! You’d never make it in the GOP. :))
They will only learn that if they collect actual facts. Are you expecting them to accomplish that feat?
Wasn’t ‘greed’ on some type of very bad list somewhere?
Who would’ve thought the GOP would want a “study” of anything when they’re generally NOT interested in facts? I mean, when I was in school and I had to “study,” it was typically something I did before taking a test. And the tests usually required FACTUAL answers–even the odd essay question would require me to *prove* my thesis by the use of facts (an opinion was fine but if you couldn’t back up that opinion with some type of factual basis, it was going to lead to a failing grade).
Granted, the GOPers behind this idea are only going to cherry pick the “facts” that support their initial idea and, more likely, just pull crap out of their asses.