A great example:

Let’s break down what she says,

“Build Back Broke”

Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years

“The combination of Trump’s 2017 tax cut and the lack of any serious spending restraint helped both the deficit and the debt soar. So when the once-in-a-lifetime viral disaster slammed our country and we threw more than $3 trillion into COVID-19-related stimulus, there was no longer any margin for error.”

President Trump’s Impact on the National Debt

“During the 2016 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Donald Trump promised he would eliminate the nation’s debt in eight years.¹ Instead, his budget estimates showed that he would actually add at least $8.3 trillion, increasing the U.S. debt to $28.5 trillion by 2025.² However, the national debt reached that figure much sooner. When President Trump took office in January 2017, the national debt stood at $19.9 trillion. In October 2020, the national debt reached a new high of $27 trillion. That’s an increase of almost 36% in less than four years.”

The GOP promised to balance the budget in 2016 Platform (didn’t bother to write one in 2020!)

“institutionalize socialism”

Critical Race Theory and Socialism are the latest @GOP Mantras because “Wall!” and “Repeal and Replace” and “Drain the Swamp” and “Coal Miners Back to Work” and “Lock Her Up!” and “Balanced Budget” won’t work.

Watchdog Group Exposes U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn’s Use of Campaign Money to Enrich Her Family

Did Harry Truman Denounce the Use of ‘Socialism’ as a ‘Scare Word’?

“Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.”

Socialism is when it helps you or me – when it helps Farmers or Big Oil it is a bailout or subsidy. The Trump Trade War was a great example of what used to be my GOP forgetting Adam Smith and the invisible hand because since Citizens United v FEC there is a visible hand – donors. An economics lesson on Marsha’s grade level:

“Government control of your kids”

How is this ‘control’ of your kids?

What’s in the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill?

• Two free years of community college (Two less years of college loans controls your kids how?)
• Child care and universal pre-K (Giving parents more flexibility so they can earn a living controls their kids how?)
• Medicare expansion (giving your parents vision, dental and hearing coverage controls your kids how?)
• Extended child tax credit (giving parents more money for food and housing and other bills controls their kids how?)
• Cut prescription drug prices (cutting your parents, you and your children’s drug costs controls your kids how?)
• Paid family and medical leave  (remind me again how this controls your kids? it sounds like YOU get more control)
• Climate change (your kids hope their kids and grandkids have a planet that is livable)

“look at your bank account for every transaction over $600

Marsha has never let facts get in the way of a story,

Fact check: Claim about the IRS monitoring bank accounts over $600 exaggerates reality

“Our rating: Partly false

We rate the claim that the Treasury Department ‘declares’ the IRS will monitor transactions in all U.S. bank accounts over $600 as PARTLY FALSE, based on our research. The Biden Administration has proposed monitoring accounts over $600, but the only figures reported to the government would be the total inflows and outflows for the year – not the size and nature of each transaction. And the Treasury can’t simply “declare” this measure, it must be approved by Congress.”

“anything on Venmo or Paypal”

Fact or Fiction: Could you soon owe taxes on Venmo transactions?

“This is why it’s important to double-check the information in Facebook posts and on social media — because sometimes the information is misunderstood or outright wrong.”

“government control of healthcare”

No. This is an old GOP talking point with no basis in fact,

What Biden’s Election Means For U.S. Health Care And Public Health

“demoralize the military”

Trump negotiated the surrender to the Taliban,

and abandoned the Kurds,

Trump’s popularity slips in latest Military Times poll — and more troops say they’ll vote for Biden

Trump Has Mocked the U.S. Military His Whole Life

“Close the churches, destroy your faith”

HUH???

“end the American system”

Remind me again who tried to destroy the American System,

which party caused this?

and doesn’t seem to care,

Marsha doubles down on “socialist”

“here they are going to come with their socialist program”

I already covered this GOP mantra above

“to run your life from cradle to grave, daylight to dark.”

I guess Marsha forgot about January 6, 2021?

How is helping families controlling their lives? Speaking of lives, remember this?

Ex-DEA official says Blackburn had warning on opioid law

“The law that Blackburn co-sponsored increased the burden for DEA to immediately suspend large shipments of drugs, requiring that it demonstrate a “substantial likelihood of an immediate threat that death, serious bodily harm, or abuse of a controlled substance will occur” without action. Congress passed the law unanimously and then-President Barack Obama signed it.”

Marsha Blackburn Tells Voters She’s Fighting Opioids. Her Track Record Doesn’t Agree.

Pharma funding

“Blackburn has long been among the House’s top recipients of pharmaceutical funding, and the trend has continued during her Senate run: Of all the senate candidates running this year, Blackburn ranks 9th in campaign funding from pharmaceutical or health product PACs and employees, taking in nearly $200,000. The companies make and distribute a variety of drugs, including, but not limited to, opioids. Over the course of her career, Blackburn has received $46,500 from the three pharmaceutical distributors—McKesson, Cardinal Health, and AmerisourceBergen—often accused of flooding small towns across rural America with painkillers.”

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“Every death from opioids is heartbreaking,” said Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the Tennessee Republican running for senate, in an earnest September campaign ad. Looking straight into the camera, Blackburn talked about new funding for treatment and the need to crack down on “drug makers who flood Tennessee with pills.”

In fact, Blackburn has been repeatedly criticized for taking money from the same pharmaceutical makers and distributors she alludes to in her ads—and crafting policy that benefits their bottom lines.

The opioid crisis is personal in Tennessee, which has among the highest overdose rates in the country, and now, the epidemic is playing a prime role in the tough race between Blackburn and former Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen. 

“It’s super popular to talk about” opioids along the campaign trail, said Michele Johnson, director of the Tennessee Justice Center. “There’s a lot of lip service paid.” Tennesseans are looking for more than lip service: Health care topped the list of priorities for likely voters, according to a recent CNN poll. “When Tennesseans say they care about healthcare, one of the things they talk about is the opioid crisis,” said state Democratic Party spokesperson Mark Brown. The epidemic, he went on, “is absolutely the defining issue of this race.”

So what, exactly, is Blackburn’s track record on opioids? Here’s a primer:

Pharma funding

Blackburn has long been among the House’s top recipients of pharmaceutical funding, and the trend has continued during her Senate run: Of all the senate candidates running this year, Blackburn ranks 9th in campaign funding from pharmaceutical or health product PACs and employees, taking in nearly $200,000. The companies make and distribute a variety of drugs, including, but not limited to, opioids. Over the course of her career, Blackburn has received $46,500 from the three pharmaceutical distributors—McKesson, Cardinal Health, and AmerisourceBergen—often accused of flooding small towns across rural America with painkillers.

Muzzling the DEA

“Among Blackburn’s signature pieces of legislation is the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act, a 2016 law that hampers the DEA’s ability to go after companies suspected of illegally distributing opioids. Blackburn maintains that the legislation, which passed with bipartisan support, was intended to ensure that those who needed medications could access them, but critics say that the law played to the interests of the pharmaceutical distributors, which lobbied heavily for its passage. After an investigation by the Washington Post and CBS’ 60 Minutes revealed the law’s shortcomings, Blackburn said that any negative effects on the DEA were “unintended consequences” that she vowed to fix.”

Calling for—but not funding—treatment

As in much of the United States, access to addiction treatment in Tennessee remains a major barrier: As of 2016, nine out of 10 Tennesseans addicted to illicit drugs didn’t receive treatment.“The hospital closures are bad both because people wont have jobs, so you’re gutting rural Tennessee, but also because then there’s no place for folks to get [addiction] treatment.”

This spring, Blackburn co-sponsored CARA 2.0, legislation that called for a three-day limit on initial opioid prescriptions and expansion of treatment and overdose response programs. But critics contend that without more funding, such legislation isn’t helpful. “When the rubber meets the road about actually providing funding to solve the problem or to make any changes, it’s far too little, far too late,” said Johnson.”

Ex-DEA agent: Opioid crisis fueled by drug industry and Congress

“Whistleblower Joe Rannazzisi says drug distributors pumped opioids into U.S. communities — knowing that people were dying — and says industry lobbyists and Congress derailed the DEA’s efforts to stop it“

The drug industry’s triumph over the DEA

“By then, the opioid war had claimed 200,000 lives, more than three … according to an investigation by The Washington Post and “60 Minutes.”

Open Secrets – Sen. Marsha Blackburn – Tennessee – Top Industries