{"id":1048239,"date":"2024-09-20T18:28:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T22:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1048239"},"modified":"2024-09-20T18:28:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T22:28:35","slug":"maga-malarkey-the-extremism-you-missed-from-republicans-this-week-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/maga-malarkey-the-extremism-you-missed-from-republicans-this-week-60\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA Malarkey: The Extremism You Missed From Republicans This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MAGA Republicans stooped to new lows this week with their extremism, hypocrisy, chaos, and \u2014 as President Biden would call it \u2014 malarkey. In case you missed it: JD Vance celebrated the overturning of Roe v. Wade<\/em> as a \u201cvictory\u201d after new reporting showed that Donald Trump\u2019s abortion bans lead to preventable deaths; Vance correctly said Trump has been consistent about his extreme, anti-choice agenda; Trump\u2019s MAGA minions in the Senate once again blocked legislation to protect IVF access nationwide \u2013 and Vance couldn\u2019t even be bothered to show up for the vote; Trump continued to pressure Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson to shut down the government; Vance failed to disavow Mark Robinson after yesterday\u2019s horrific reporting; Vance made clear that the Trump-Vance health care plan is to rip away protections from people with preexisting conditions; and Trump once again lied about his loss in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours after new reporting showed that Donald Trump\u2019s abortion bans across the country are leading to preventable deaths, JD Vance celebrated Trump\u2019s overturning of <\/strong>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/strong> as a \u201cvictory.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cThe Supreme Court\u2019s decision [to overturn Roe v. Wade<\/em>] was a victory\u2026 We\u2019re united in our gratitude and our admiration for these devoted defenders of the unborn and for the judges, justices, and especially President Trump, whose commitment to defending the law and the constitution allowed this breakthrough after over 50 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ProPublica<\/a>: \u201cAbortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother\u2019s Death Was Preventable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn her final hours, Amber Nicole Thurman suffered from a grave infection that her suburban Atlanta hospital was well-equipped to treat. […]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut just that summer, her state had made performing the procedure a felony, with few exceptions. Any doctor who violated the new Georgia law could be prosecuted and face up to a decade in prison. [\u2026]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt took 20 hours for doctors to finally operate. By then, it was too late.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ProPublica<\/a>: \u201cAfraid to Seek Care Amid Georgia\u2019s Abortion Ban, She Stayed at Home and Died\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCandi Miller\u2019s health was so fragile, doctors warned having another baby could kill her. […]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut when the mother of three realized she had unintentionally gotten pregnant in the fall of 2022, Georgia\u2019s new abortion ban gave her no choice. Although it made exceptions for acute, life-threatening emergencies, it didn\u2019t account for chronic conditions, even those known to present lethal risks later in pregnancy. […]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHer case adds to mounting evidence that exceptions to abortion bans do not, as billed, protect the \u201clife of the mother.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance correctly said that Trump has been consistent on his extreme, anti-choice agenda to ban abortion nationwide. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cYou take [Trump] for his word or you don\u2019t. \u2026 He\u2019s been as consistent as he could about [abortion].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cTrump says he will support national ban on abortions around 15 weeks of pregnancy\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cI was proudly the person responsible for the ending of \u2026 Roe v. Wade<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cFor 54 years they were trying to get Roe v. Wade<\/em> terminated, and I did it, and I\u2019m proud to have done it. \u2026 Nobody else was going to get that done but me, and we did it, and we did something that was a miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s MAGA minions in the Senate blocked legislation to protect IVF access nationwide (again), and his running mate Vance couldn\u2019t even be bothered to show up for the vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Independent<\/a>: \u201cIVF is supposedly key to Trump\u2019s campaign. JD Vance didn\u2019t even show up to vote on it\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c…it was Trump who put IVF in jeopardy. His confirmation of ultra-conservative judges to the Supreme Court led to the overturn of Roe v Wade<\/em> with the Dobbs decision, which then in turn led a court in Alabama to declare embryos humans. If embryos are humans, of course, then IVF is untenable. […]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUnsurprisingly, most Republicans opposed the motion. But what is more surprising is who did not vote at all: Trump\u2019s running mate and man on the Hill, Senator JD Vance of Ohio. […]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is not the first time that Vance has skipped a vote on legislation that ostensibly matters to him. He\u2019s previously said he supports an expanded child tax credit \u2014 but then when given a chance to vote on a bipartisan proposal that passed the House and would have included a child tax credit, he skipped the vote.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NPR<\/a>: \u201cSenate Republicans block IVF bill, as Democrats elevate issue ahead of November election\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump continues to pressure Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson to shut down the government, something even Mitch McConnell knows is \u201cbeyond politically stupid.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cHouse GOP torpedoes Speaker Johnson\u2019s funding bill\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA diverse group of House Republicans torpedoed Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s (R-La.) proposal to fund the government on Wednesday, dealing an embarrassing blow to the GOP leader and derailing his strategy to avoid a shutdown at the end of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe vote outcome, nonetheless, is putting the Speaker in a bind. It leaves the path to averting a shutdown unclear, puts him in danger of disappointing former President Trump and his conference\u2019s right-flank, and threatens to thwart his efforts to remain GOP leader in the next Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cJohnson under pressure after House fails to pass GOP funding plan and Trump pushes shutdown\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cHouse Republicans reject their own funding bill with a shutdown around the corner\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHouse Republicans on Wednesday defeated their own plan to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month, with the party divided over the length of a short-term funding bill and what, if anything, should be attached to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was an embarrassing blow to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who had yanked the same funding package off the floor last week amid growing GOP defections, only to watch it collapse on Wednesday in a vote that seemed doomed from the start.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Daily Beast<\/a>: \u201cSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was blunt in his assessment of a potential shutdown on Tuesday, warning that it would be \u2018beyond politically stupid\u2019 for Republicans to allow the government to shutter just weeks before the election. \u2018One thing you cannot have is a government shutdown. It would be politically beyond stupid for us to do that right before the election, because certainly we\u2019d get the blame,\u2019 McConnell told reporters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance failed to disavow Mark Robinson after yesterday\u2019s horrific reporting. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201c\u2018I\u2019m a black NAZI!\u2019: NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reporter<\/a>: \u201cSenator Vance, do you have any reaction to the Mark Robinson news?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance: *rushes into other room*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cMy comment on Mark Robinson is that Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote on the Inflation Explosion Act and  because of that a lot of Americans can\u2019t afford groceries\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance made clear that the Trump-Vance \u201cconcept of a plan\u201d for health care is to rip away protections for Americans with preexisting conditions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cVance floats new health plans for chronically ill, reopening ACA debate\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) this week said the Trump campaign wants to roll back the Affordable Care Act\u2019s approach to how chronically ill Americans shop for health insurance, with the Republican vice-presidential candidate reopening a health-care debate that Democrats are eager to have \u2014 and resurrecting a fight that has repeatedly burned the GOP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSpeaking in North Carolina on Wednesday, Vance floated an idea to group chronically ill patients together in health-insurance pools based on their elevated risks. That would reverse a shift driven by the Affordable Care Act, which largely ended the practice of shunting chronically ill patients into what are known as high-risk pools and provided new protections for patients with preexisting conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg<\/a>: \u201cJD Vance\u2019s Pitch Puts Obamacare Repeal Efforts Back in the Spotlight\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDemocrats are seizing on JD Vance\u2019s pitch to do away with a bedrock part of the Affordable Care Act, saying it would cause costs for chronically ill people to spike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt a rally on Wednesday, Vance said a second Trump administration would work to separate people into different risk pools, allowing them \u2018to choose a health care plan that works for them.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSuch a policy would effectively end the ACA\u2019s guarantee that people pay the same prices and get the same benefits regardless of their health status, a popular part of the program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Semafor<\/a>: \u201cJD Vance reopens the pre-existing condition debates\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Magazine<\/a>: <\/strong>\u201cVance: Trump\u2019s Health-Care Plan Is to Let Insurers Charge More for Preexisting Conditions\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Republic<\/a>: \u201cJ.D. Vance Reveals Atrocious Little Detail of Trump\u2019s Health Care Plan\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump lied \u2013 for the umpteenth time \u2013 about his loss by over 7 million votes in the 2020 election.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cIf that didn\u2019t happen, I don\u2019t think \u2014 and I guarantee you, if the election were a straight election, we won that election. We should\u2019ve won that election, everybody knew we won the election.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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