Republicans: Same old crap

Kevin Drum on the Republican Party:

The Republican Study Committee—which includes nearly every Republican in Congress—released its latest budget proposal today. 

It's getting a lot of attention on Twitter because it includes cuts to Social Security even though Republicans have spent the past year angrily denying Democratic claims that they plan to cut Social Security.

But that's not what struck me. After browsing through it, it's clear that it's just a recitation of greatest hits:

• Cut the pay of federal workers and make it easier to fire them
• Reduce funding for the EPA, SEC, FTC, NLRB, OSHA, and presumably any other agency that annoys the business community
• Raise the Social Security retirement age even more
• Block grants for Medicaid
• A big pile o' deregulation proposals
• Drill baby drill
• Welfare reform cuts
• Fight waste fraud 'n abuse
• Defund the IRS
• Eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• Tax cuts for businesses and the rich
• Eliminate the estate tax
• Convert SNAP into a block grant
• More defense spending
• Health Savings Accounts
• Premium support for Medicare
• Block grant SSI
• Balanced budget amendment
• Make tax increases essentially impossible
• Kill Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
• Eliminate climate funding wherever it's hiding

Rob's comment:

Republicans can't help it. That's just who they are, who they have always been!  Which is why I never vote for Republicans for anything.