"'Medicare Advantage' is just private insurance that profits by denying coverage, and the name is being used to trick seniors into enrolling," said Rep. Ro Khanna. "That's not right."
"We can't let the Postal Service sabotage itself by driving industries out of business and driving consumers away from using the mail," said one critic.
"Republicans plan to use the debt limit as the hostage to demand these cuts, even though Social Security doesn't add a single penny to the deficit," noted one campaigner.
"I think they were trying to hand the Justice Department all the evidence on a silver platter," one legal expert said of the panel probing last year's attack on the U.S. Capitol.
"The companies lobbying against Gigi Sohn are simply trying to do one thing: keep the FCC deadlocked for as long as possible," said one advocate. "Sohn is an exceptionally qualified nominee and it's well past time to confirm her."
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The GOP has no unifying philosophy other than hate, fear, and kowtowing to billionaires and their giant corporations; the people who make up its governing class are similarly fractured.