othershoe1030 wrote:The republicans so hate the idea of President Obama getting any credit whatsoever for anything that might help the economy or help the American people that they obstruct and vote against absolutely anything positive even if it is something that was their idea to begin with. An example of this would be the inclusion of the individual mandate in the ACA. The concept was first developed by the Heritage Foundation, a very conservative think tank. The justification for requiring everyone to buy health insurance was to insure that everyone would be responsible for their own insurance rather than skating along letting those of us who have insurance pay for them. This was framed as insuring individual responsibility. When it was included in the ACA, however, the republicans screamed bloody murder claiming a "government take-over" of the health care system. The republicans should go stand in a corner for a couple of decades for all the pain and suffering they've caused the American people just because they dared not vote in favor of something that would make the president look good. Shame on them. Country first my foot. They are hurting the country by refusing to work together.
Here are the top five ways the Republicans have sabotaged the economic recovery since:
1. Filibustering the American Jobs Act. Last October, Senate Republicans killed a jobs bill proposed by President Obama that would have pumped $447 billion into the economy. Multiple economic analysts predicted the bill would add around two million jobs and hailed it as defense against a double-dip recession. The Congressional Budget Office also scored it as a net deficit reducer over ten years, and the American public supported the bill.
2. Stonewalling monetary stimulus. The Federal Reserve can do enormous good for a depressed economy through more aggressive monetary stimulus, and by tolerating a temporarily higher level of inflation. But with everything from Ron Paul’s anti-inflationary crusade to Rick Perry threatening to lynch Chairman Ben Bernanke, Republicans have browbeaten the Fed into not going down this path. Most damagingly, the GOP repeatedly held up President Obama’s nominations to the Federal Reserve Board during the critical months of the recession, leaving the board without the institutional clout it needed to help the economy.
3. Threatening a debt default. Even though the country didn’t actually hit its debt ceiling last summer, the Republican threat to default on the United States’ outstanding obligations was sufficient to spook financial markets and do real damage to the economy.
4. Cutting discretionary spending in the debt ceiling deal. The deal the GOP extracted as the price for avoiding default imposed around $900 billion in cuts over ten years. It included $30.5 billion in discretionary cuts in 2012 alone, costing the country 0.3 percent in economic growth and 323,000 jobs, according to estimates from the Economic Policy Institute. Starting in 2013, the deal will trigger another $1.2 trillion in cuts over ten years.
5. Cutting discretionary spending in the budget deal. While not as cataclysmic as the debt ceiling brinksmanship, Republicans also threatened a shutdown of the government in early 2011 if cuts were not made to that year’s budget. The deal they struck with the White House cut $38 billion from food stamps, health, education, law enforcement, and low-income programs among others, while sparing defense almost entirely.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07/06/511940/5-ways-republicans-sabotaged-job-growth/
ThinkProgress, as you know, is a George Soros funded organization. Soros, as you also know, is a convicted felon and multi-Billionaire who has spent hundreds of millions to defeat capitalism. His world would be perfect with him as "God" and everyone serving him. Try finding a reliable source
ThinkProgress is now also part of the TinFoil Hat society as declared by the Obama administration.
Obama campaign refers to liberal bloggers as “tinfoil hat crowd”
October 10, 2012 | 10:10 pm | Modified: October 11, 2012 at 3:30 pm
The Obama campaign referred to several major liberal bloggers as the “tinfoil hat crowd” in a statement to Fox News Wednesday. The campaign was responding to the cable channel’s request for a comment on an Internet conspiracy theory many of them had promoted.
Shortly after the presidential debate last week, a number of liberal bloggers including ones at Daily Kos, FireLakeDog, Democratic Underground, and the Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan, among others, began posting items suggesting that Mitt Romney had cheated during the debate.
The theory was that, as some video of the event appeared to suggest, Romney slipped a folded piece of paper out of his pocket and onto his podium just before the debate started. The bloggers suggested this was a “cheat sheet.” The theory was pretty clearly debunked. The paper was in fact a handkerchief … that Romney was shown later in the debate mopping his brow with.
Fox’s Special Report with Bret Baier somewhat belatedly weighed in on the issue during its Wednesday broadcast. Baier noted a Washington Times story that suggested the Obama campaign planted the “cheat sheet” story in the blogs. Fox asked the Obama campaign for its reaction. Spokesman Ben LaBolt provided them with the following statement:
No — We’ve never casted our lot with the tinfoil hat crowd.Granted, it was a bogus Internet meme, but that is still a fairly harsh remark for what after all popular liberal voices on the web. Do those bloggers know the administration apparently holds them in such low regard?
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http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-campaign-refers-to-liberal-bloggers-as-tinfoil-hat-crowd/article/2510420#.UHcGia5QAtV