Kevin McCarthy's face-plant: The new GOP speaker is not the negotiation ninja he thinks he is
After being forced into submission by people like Donald Trump and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., one would think Speaker Kevin McCarthy would have downgraded his own self-assessment as a master negotiator. Axios described Biden as "baiting Republicans to agree with his push to protect Medicare and Social Security." As Tara Golshan at Vanity Fair pointed out in a lengthy Twitter thread, Republican attacks on Social Security and Medicare aren't nearly as well-disguised as they seem to think they are: It's once again proof that Republicans think voters are extremely stupid. In trying to deny that the plan is to destroy Social Security and Medicare, he ended up tweeting confirmation that this is exactly what would happen: Despite his flailing denials, it's been clear from the moment that Scott first released his 11-point plan that the main purpose of the "sunset" provision was so that Social Security and Medicare would expire, and a GOP-controlled Congress would just never get around to voting to keep it around. During the George W. Bush administration, for instance, Republicans thought they could smuggle Social Security destruction past voters by calling it "privatization."
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