And Democrats are pouncing on it, as NBC News reports: That will not be part of the Republican Senate majority agenda.”īut the genie was out of the bottle, and Scott doubled down in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in which he bragged that he was defying “beltway cowardice.” So to the extent that he is a prominent Republican senator who runs his party’s 2022 campaign committee, his agenda is fair game. We will not have as part of our agenda a bill that raises taxes on half the American people and sunsets Social Security and Medicare within five years. “Let me tell you what will not be on our agenda. I’ll decide, in consultation with my members, what to put on the floor,” McConnell told reporters last month. “If we’re fortunate enough to have the majority next year, I’ll be the majority leader. When Mitch McConnell heard about this, he hit the roof. Scott calls for a 12-year limit on most federal employment as well as moving “most Government agencies out of Washington and into the real world.” He also wants to cut the IRS’s funding and workforce by 50 percent and impose a new minimum income tax on Americans who currently have no net tax liability. They are redefining America and silencing their opponents.Īmong the things they plan to change or destroy are: American history, patriotism, border security, the nuclear family, gender, traditional morality, capitalism, fiscal responsibility, opportunity, rugged individualism, Judeo-Christian values, dissent, free speech, color blindness, law enforcement, religious liberty, parental involvement in public schools, and private ownership of firearms.īut bonkers as the rhetoric is, the particular proposals are worse. The militant leftnow controls the entire federal government, the news media, academia, Hollywood, and most corporate boardrooms – but they want more. Seriously, check out this rhetoric from Scott’s “plan.” It’s like a local John Birch Society chapter’s keynote address from 1959: And thus it’s no surprise that Democrats are beginning to call attention to it. His “11-Point Plan to Rescue America” is like a bad parody of what liberals think conservatives stand for. But it’s only a slightly exaggerated mirror image of what Republican National Senatorial Committee chairman Rick Scott has put out there as a manifesto for his party’s midterm election campaigns. ![]() Of course, that would never happen in a million years. Suppose the document ranted and raved about Christian homophobes, overbearing parents, piggy patriarchal anti-feminists, and corporate whores and called for defunding the police everywhere, the immediate abolition of pickup trucks, and mandatory critical race theory instruction in all schools. Imagine the chairman of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee putting out a detailed agenda to show what his party planned to do after the 2022 midterms if they retained control of the upper chamber.
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