You hear liberals complaining that President Obama has to put out concrete job bills that the GOP can either vote for or be on record as voting against. They think that just because a hypothetical Congressman Smith is offered a bill that will fix a bridge and is shown as denying that infusion of money into his area will sway specific GOP goons. Sounds like a good idea, but unfortunately it ignores reality. The Republican-controlled House has introduced no jobs bills since they won the majority and the Democrats introduced three jobs bills between 2008 and 2010. All three of them were filibustered by Republicans and killed in committee.
The GOP knows how inattentive their voters are. Remember all of the GOP goons who voted against stimulus money and later when the money fixed something and gave his constituents jobs, they were taking credit?
Don’t mean to stereotype, but the GOP depends on the Southern Strategy. When people from the deepest of Deep South chastise their representatives about policies helping the top 1% it is about time the GOP realizes that the propaganda isn’t working.
The article “Alabama Congressman Defends Big Oil Tax Breaks To Angry Constituents” should indicate to the Tea Party that they have to come up with new material.
The article states “Freshman Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) defended tax breaks for extremely profitable oil companies at a town hall meeting Thursday night as his constituents questioned how to reduce the nation’s deficit. According to the Florence Times-Daily, “Brooks said ending the breaks […] or increasing taxes on the companies would result in higher consumer prices because the additional costs would be passed on.” He maintained that new taxes would be bad for the economy even as his constituents correctly challenged him on the false idea that taking away the oil companies’ tax breaks would hurt consumers.”
The GOP no longer stands for what they are on the record for standing for, just to hurt President Obama. The fact that they are ruining the bottom 99%’s lives means nothing to them.
The article “FLASHBACK: In 1990 Campaign Ad, McConnell Said ‘I Think Everyone Should Pay Their Fair Share, Including The Rich’” should make these fools like McConnell be truthful.
The article states “Today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) named three Republicans to the fiscal super committee that was created by the debt ceiling deal. All three have taken the Americans for Tax Reform anti-tax pledge and support a cockamamie constitutional balanced budget amendment.
“What I can pretty certainly say to the American people, the chances of any kind of tax increase passing with this, with the appointees that John Boehner and I are going to put on there, are pretty low,” McConnell has said.
But McConnell has not always been so virulently anti-tax. In fact, in a 1990 campaign ad, McConnell said that “everyone should pay their fair share, including the rich,” prompting the Associated Press to say that he sounded like a “populist Democrat.”
The Republicans have realized for generations that the poor common man doesn’t do research, but depends on the latest GOP propaganda which appeals to their baser instincts, to sway their vote.
In November of 1990, as the article states “McConnell reassures voters that he will back a ‘fair deal for the working families of Kentucky.’”
In November of 1990 he determined that his voters wanted to hear one thing so McConnell said it and they believed he meant it. They thought he was a decent man and should therefore be trusted. Now they want to hear something diametrically opposed to the earlier misinformation so McConnell has no trouble saying it as for the Tea Partiers reality and history doesn’t matter.
The only that does is some catchy jingle that the proles will find satisfying.
The article “Corporate Cash Holdings Have Grown 59 Percent Since 2008″ indicates that the GOP has no compunctions in spewing misinformation to the rubes as the top 1% rapes them.
The article states “The Wall Street Journal noted today that “non-financial companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index were holding $1.12 trillion in cash and short-term investments in their most recent reports, up 59% from $703 billion in the third quarter of 2008.” This data seems to fly in the face of conservatives who claim that corporations need more money (in the form of new tax breaks) in order to start hiring.”
Even some of most heinous propagandists can misspeak, but that doesn’t matter either because the proles have the attention span of a 3 year old. The article states “Earlier this month, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) inadvertently made the progressive argument about corporate taxes, when he pointed out that pocketing money from tax savings is simply “what business does.”
The article “6 So-Called “Job Creators” Who Won’t Hire The Unemployed” illustrates that once you’ve lost your job brother you won’t get another chance.
The article describes how it did its research and noted that once again the Democrats wanted to help but were thwarted by the GOP as it states “Some members of Congress are trying to crush this practice once and for all. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and her colleague Henry Johnson, Jr., D-Ga., introduced the Fair Employment Opportunity Act of 2011, which makes it illegal to refuse to consider job applicants solely because they are unemployed. So far, though,the bill has moved nowhere, ignored by the Republican leadership in the House.”
Reagan wanted to cutback revenue for the US social safety net by reducing taxes on the rich. Then when the economy tanked as a result of the deficit skyrocketing, his proposed solution was the GOP’s solution for everything-reducing taxes for the rich.
We are in this fight again right now. As Yogi Berra said “It is deja vu all over again!”
Beck takes it farther. The Bush 43 emulated Reagan’s voodoo economics and we got to the same sorry mess as we did just 30 years ago. Beck wants say that if our citizens get as angry with this worldwide mess that the GOP placed us, then we should say that President Obama wanted us to riot all along. That ignores the reality that we are in this mess because of the previous administration.
Glenn Beck has listeners. Recently one of his more tragically ill listeners targeted the Tides Foundation because, as his mother said, he was swayed by Glenn Beck’s lies. The poor guy got into a shootout with the Oakland police officers and Beck had to claim that Beck’s brainwashing didn’t inspire the shooter. Who are you going to believe, Glenn Beck or the guy’s mother?
Now Beck has a different spin on reality that he is using. Who knows how many emotionally ill people will respond as negatively as the guy who got into a shootout with the Oakland police? Glenn Beck doesn’t, but as long as he appeals to the baser instincts of the proles he’ll keep it up because that means his audience is growing.
The article’s headline-“Beck: Obama wants to use ‘race riots’ to ‘take this country down’” suffices to tell the story.
It concludes “It’s not the first time, nor will it be the last, that Beck has sought to use paranoid visions of racial hatred to scare his listeners into believing his conspiracy theories. He’s previously said that President Obama hates white CEOs, wants to pay blacks reparations and would ultimately lead the U.S. into a period of white slavery through communism.”
The GOP would do anything to ruin our country’s economy because they know that will hurt the Democrat’s chances in the 2012 election. The GOP will even take stances diametrically opposed to their earlier positions if they calculate they’ll gain partisan advantage. If the Democrats did that the GOP would tar them with being flip-floppers, but the GOP doesn’t fear the same attack from the Democrats because their base doesn’t pay attention to simple truths.
The GOP is adept at stoking up the common masses with their propaganda which appeals to their base instincts. The country loses, but if the GOP gains that is fine with them.