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I failed to see how any middle class person employed or unemployed can support our current republican congress who have done nothing but sabotage any possible recovery. These republicans are willing to let the entire country sink in order to oust a president. The only thing they did do is waste several million dollars passing a bill that reaffirms "In God We Trust." Well ain't that grand! If any corporation had a manager, VP, president that performed as badly as our congress does they would be fired immediately.
Do you realize that over half of congress are millionaires? You can bet where their interests lie and it isn't with Main St America.
Republicans insist on trickle down economics that as not only failed to produce jobs but instead has caused American jobs to leave our shores by the boat load. Yet these republicans continue to pad the pockets of the rich who are not providing any jobs at all.
It is time to dump this self-serving republican crew and perhaps have criminal investigations into things like insider trading, etc. We need politicians who are from the ranks of the working class who understand the needs of the people. If the democrats cannot or will not step up to the plate then it is time to create a new party and start doing something for the majority of Americans instead of the wealthy few.
Since Boehner and cantor started the debt ceiling bs fiasco last summer, we can see where they put party before reality. Good.
bcs the house freshmen will now have a rude awakening as to the rage and disappointment the middle class is enduring right now. Swing voters are fed up with the GOP and their garbage tactics in the media.
well said. Im sick of reading posts on abortion and guns while Americas economy is flushed down the toilet.
GOP= business as usual and to hell with the American people and middle class.
Hilarious! what about the last three years of the obama economy?
More debt, more deficit spending, more houses in foreclosure, more food stamps, more poverty, higher gas prices, lower housing values...I could go on and on and on.
Since Boehner and cantor started the debt ceiling bs fiasco last summer, we can see where they put party before reality. Good.
bcs the house freshmen will now have a rude awakening as to the rage and disappointment the middle class is enduring right now. Swing voters are fed up with the GOP and their garbage tactics in the media.
Absolutely true, and the abyssmal approval ratings reflect that. They go home and when asked what they've done for their constituents, they have precious little to answer except "We wouldn't work with Obama." That's cold comfort to those sinking from the middle class into the working poor category, or to the unemployed and uninsured.
Absolutely true, and the abyssmal approval ratings reflect that. They go home and when asked what they've done for their constituents, they have precious little to answer except "We wouldn't work with Obama." That's cold comfort to those sinking from the middle class into the working poor category, or to the unemployed and uninsured.
What about the first two years of obamanomics?
In case you forgot, the HISTORIC 2010 election that threw the dems out of power in the House was a mandate to STOP obama's ruinous agenda.
I mean, how much more of his failed policies should we try? You want to continue with the first two years of his failed agenda?
Absolutely true, and the abyssmal approval ratings reflect that. They go home and when asked what they've done for their constituents, they have precious little to answer except "We wouldn't work with Obama." That's cold comfort to those sinking from the middle class into the working poor category, or to the unemployed and uninsured.
yes.They put party partisanship before reality. People in most states are hurting....Even conservatives are disgusted with the new GOP freshmen...We need a 3rd party. And MSM as usual will miss the boat YET AGAIN in 2012, pretending foreclosures and middle class job loss doesnt exist.
Blitzer, fox and all lame stream corporate media are already bought and paid for. They dont give a damn what is really happening to jobs in this country.
yes.They put party partisanship before reality. People in most states are hurting....Even conservatives are disgusted with the new GOP freshmen...We need a 3rd party. And MSM as usual will miss the boat YET AGAIN in 2012, pretending foreclosures and middle class job loss doesnt exist.
Blitzer, fox and all lame stream corporate media are already bought and paid for. They dont give a damn what is really happening to jobs in this country.
Oooh...move your jobs overseas and pay a 50% tax on that income. Bet we'd see some new jobs in the U.S. rather quickly!
Please tell us just WHAT was there that the republicans blocked that would have gotten this economy back on the road to recovery?!??!?!
Do you HAVE an answer? I doubt it. You just echo the obama party line.
Hint....it was during the time that obama had democrat control of BOTH houses...his first 2 years in office....that this economy took a sharper nose dive that the course it had been on.. ALSO it was after those 2 years that the government got the CREDIT DOWNGRADE due to overwhelming debt and no plan to curb it's increase!!
The name calling is childish and does your argument absoutely no favors.
It was a mistake for the debt ceiling issue to not have been resolved earlier, but it was obvious to anyone following the issue that House Republicans (specifically those persuaded by Grover Norquist) were to blame for the gridlock on the debt ceiling proposal. Did you already forget about Speaker John Boehner originally being in favor of the "grand compromise," then backing away once he began losing support from Eric Cantor and his gang of freshmen Republicans? Every time the Democrats tried to work together and compromise the House just dug its heels further and blocked any proposal from moving forward to the Senate.
Congressional polls are low, and the House GOP polls the worst. You would think they would have learned their lesson from the debt ceiling debacle, yet they did the EXACT SAME THING with the payroll tax and once again paid dearly for it politically, giving Obama's administration the upper hand. It looked terrible for Boehner and his gang when the Senate Democrats and Republicans were able to come up with a nearly bipartisan agreement that was backed by a majority of the American people.
The House GOP, especially the Tea Party freshmen, have not done what they were specifically elected for: job growth. Partisan rhetoric and inability to compromise led to our credit rating downgrade and a setback in an economy that was showing improvement. They have a terrible track record thus far and will not last in the 2014 elections.
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bcs the house freshmen will now have a rude awakening as to the rage and disappointment the middle class is enduring right now. Swing voters are fed up with the GOP and their garbage tactics in the media.
exactly
