WHERE'S THE BEEF?
In the service of fair play and tolerating differences I am trying to extend grace to the Republican party. But pure animosity keeps my more 'spiritual' side roiling. If you haven't guessed the motivation for my latest rant it is all compressed in the single word:JOBS!
It has been near 6 months since the Republicans promised to make their priority concern that of job creation. So how come what has dominated their attention has been an obsession with anti-abortion roll backs, God, budget deficits, anti government, no new taxes of any kind, anti - labor laws (i.e.anti - collective bargaining); and a daily attack on the leadership, character, and 'different-ness' of President Obama with not one serious job creation initiative even proposed to say nothing about enacted.
Bad enough the Grand Old Party - has transparently calculated that doing nothing is the way to beat Obama but their reaction to the latest dismal jobs report is to rationalize it as an argument to (1) raise no new taxes and (2) evidence that Obama's leadership as a job creationist is a complete failure.
Meanwhile their obsession to cut spending without considering raising revenues is clearly making the crisis in jobs deepen.
There is no one shred of evidence indicating that reducing the deficit in times of severe job losses is helpful to the economy. There is also not one shred of evidence that raising taxes to increase urgently needed revenue to help create jobs will have a negative effect on the economy.
The Republicans seem to be egging for another civil war or perhaps it is more apt to say uncivil war. If this is accurate then they have stirred the passion of one American citizen to enlist in the war to call them out.
OK Republicans you win - I AM PROVOKED!
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