Our House votes on the Inflation Reduction Act today, so you may want to call your House Rep and tell them to vote for the bill; if you don’t know your House Reps’ phone numbers, use the tools in the upper right-hand corner of this page to find them. It sure ain’t the bill we tried to get, but it would be the biggest climate change-fighting bill ever, plus it would help our IRS catch rich tax cheats and make corporations pay more taxes, and all that’s a lot better than the bill Republicans would have us pass, which is “no bill.” Seriously, if you’re still bummed, just remember that Republicans threw a massive hissy fit and tried to kill a veterans’ health care bill and a semiconductor bill once they knew the Inflation Reduction Act was coming. All Republicans are good for is tantrums, and it's our duty to keep professional tantrum-throwers from getting their way.
In a peripherally-related note, I understand that right-wingers incensed by our FBI’s raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort are openly calling for “civil war.” I’ll admit that since I moved from the city to the suburbs, I have become more acutely aware how many assholes walk among us. But here are three other things I know: folks don’t hit their targets most of the time, having a gun doesn't guarantee you a hero-making shot in the first place, and spending every Saturday at the shooting range ain’t “preparation for civil war.” So I think the Hummer Brigade would go down more easily than the Confederacy did, even though they’ll whine and yell a lot more.
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