Kevin McCarthy used a rhetorical question made famous by Ronald Reagan to stop the Inflation Reduction Act. He forgot the lawyer's rule about never asking a question you don't know what to do with. In a speech on the House floor, McCarthy asked, "Is America better off today than they were two years ago?", which references a question Reagan asked during a 1980 presidential debate with then- President Jimmy Carter. McCarthy probably wouldn't like the answers that people gave to his inquiry because he assumed it would make Democrats angry. Things have improved since 2020 when the country was devastated by COVID-19 before vaccines were developed. Was @GOPLeader born yesterday? Or did he forget that two years ago we were in the midst of the worst pandemic in a century that devastated our country, made even worse by Trump. Biden is digging us out of the hole Trump made. https://t.co/zp7nhO6tog
August 12th, 2017: Rep.Nydia Velazquez.
I am vaccinated, businesses have reopened, Las Vegas is back in full force and then some, the leader of Al Qaeda is dead, CHIPS Act, Inflation Reduction Act, unemployment is down - yeah we're like, infinitely better off. https://t.co/6unhB0JSYe
— Mark Riffenburg (@ItsJustMarkNV) August 12, 2022
Kevin, two years ago things were so bad that THE REPUBLICAN PARTY voted to let everyone - not just rich people - have free money. https://t.co/cIz4sqLy84
— Johnny McNulty (@JohnnyMcNulty) August 12, 2022
Two years ago we were in the middle of the deepest recession since the Great Depression, we had no Covid vaccines, and the unemployment rate was more than double what it is today. https://t.co/BSzlEz0g55
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) August 12, 2022
Two years ago we couldn't travel, see friends/family, eat out at restaurants, and had to trade copies of Hulk #181 for a can of Lysol and a couple rolls of toilet paper.
No one, and I mean NO ONE, self-owns like McCarthy. https://t.co/tTha4Z5hfq
— Mike Avila (@mikeavila) August 12, 2022
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