Will The Republican Party Continue To Attack The Country With Boehner Leaving?
Still, things could have been worse. And under his successor they almost surely will be worse. Bad as Mr. Boehner was, he was just a symptom of the underlying malady, the madness that has consumed his party.
For me, Mr. Boehner’s defining moment remains what he said and did as House minority leader in early 2009, when a newly inaugurated President Obama was trying to cope with the disastrous recession that began under his predecessor.
There was and is a strong consensus among economists that a temporary period of deficit spending can help mitigate an economic slump. In 2008 a stimulus plan passed Congress with bipartisan support, and the case for a further stimulus in 2009 was overwhelming. But with a Democrat in the White House, Mr. Boehner demanded that policy go in the opposite direction, declaring that “American families are tightening their belts. But they don’t see government tightening its belt.” And he called for government to “go on a diet.”
This was know-nothing economics, and incredibly irresponsible at a time of crisis; not long ago it would have been hard to imagine a major political figure making such a statement. Did Mr. Boehner actually believe what he was saying? Was he just against anything Mr. Obama was for? Or was he engaged in deliberate sabotage, trying to block measures that would help the economy because a bad economy would be good for Republican electoral prospects?
We’ll probably never know for sure, but those remarks set the tone for everything that followed. The Boehner era has been one in which Republicans have accepted no responsibility for helping to govern the country, in which they have opposed anything and everything the president proposes. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/opinion/paul-krugman-the-blackmail-caucus-aka-the-republican-party.html?_r=0
THE GOP DOESN’T WANT TO GET RID OF ABORTION ON DEMAND. It serves them too well to stir up the ignorant and single issue voters.
Many lower or middle class people dislike/hate Unions. Unions and collective bargaining are the only reason that fair wages are paid in this country.
The idea of national health care freaks them out. President Obama is the antichrist even for supporting it.
There is national health care in every developed country in the world --- except this one. Are they just stupid in Denmark or Iceland or England? Don’t they care about their children?
People need to wake up and abandon the GOP, which has been attacking the country since Reagan was president. Unglaze your eyes and think for yourself.
Yes. The value of wages has hardly budged in decades.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/09/for-most-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/
Geez. Wake up.
Walt
For most workers, real wages have barely budged for decades
For most U.S. workers, inflation-adjusted wages have been flat or falling for decades, regardless of whether the economy has been adding or subtracting jobs. The $4.03-an-hour rate recorded in January 1973 has the same purchasing power as $22.41 would today.
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Walt
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Just because, dang it.
Walt
http://www.forwardprogressives.com/john-boehner-republicans-willing-put-us-risk-partisan-politics/
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John Boehner Admits Republicans are Willing to Put U.S. at Risk to Play Partisan Politics (Video)...
According to John Boehner, who cares whether or not the Department of Homeland Security is funded so that it can continue to do its job. The only thing...
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/199480-gop-blocks-veterans-bill
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/House-Republicans-Vote-to-Block-Obama-on-Immigration/384513/
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/07/16/senate-republicans-block-bill-create-1-million-jobs-young-people.html
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Republicans said the new healthcare and education programs was not properly paid for.
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Senate Republicans Block A Bill That Would Create 1 Million New Jobs For Young People
Senate Republicans voted down a bill from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that would have provided funds to state and local governments to create 1 million new jobs for nation's struggling young workforce.
Walt
Another GOP attack on the country.
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Senate blocks $60 billion infrastructure plan, another part of Obama jobs bill
The Senate shot down another piece of President Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill Thursday.