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    Michael Hiltzik: Republicans keep harping on inflation, but don't have any answers for it

    Even if you didn't know from your household accounts that inflation has been running hot this year, your local Republican officeholders and candidates would make sure it wasn't a secret. As the midterm elections approach, inflation has been not only the leading issue for the GOP to flog, but sometimes it seems to be the party's only issue. In a way, that's encouraging. After all, a party that ...
    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Nov 02, 2022 6 minutes
    U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy leaves after a news conference at the East Steps of the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 29, 2022, in Washington, DC. House Republicans held a news conference on "House Republican's Commitment to America."

    Even if you didn't know from your household accounts that inflation has been running hot this year, your local Republican officeholders and candidates would make sure it wasn't a secret.

    As the midterm elections approach, inflation has been not only the leading issue for the GOP to flog, but sometimes it seems to be the party's only issue.

    In a way, that's encouraging. After all, a party that talks about a single problem so relentlessly must have a solution to offer. So the Republicans must be out on the hustings offering chapter and verse about their answer to inflation, right?

    Alas, no.

    A look at the GOP's election manifesto, the "Commitment to America" recently issued by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, reveals no specifics. Nor have Republican candidates done so during the multitude of appearances they've made on cable talk shows, despite specific and pointed questions by the hosts.

    Here, for example, is Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., on Aug. 21, responding on "Meet the Press" when Chuck Todd asked, "What

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