5 Months of GOP/Teahadist majority in Congress, and the Economy is turning back to Shit!

[FrenchieCat]

Hey....Boehner!

Where are the MotherF*cking Jobs Jobs Jobs you and your GOP buddies promised
during election 2010?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0921/Republicans-two-point-plan-to-create-jobs-Can-it-work

Yes, I want to know where in the fuck they are!


Seemed like we are sliding faster than could have been predicted in the wrong direction
ever since you and your ilk have been the majority in the house concentrating on reversing Health Care, firing government employees, tightening up Abortion laws, doing away with Medicare, Union Busting, and attacking NPR!

America was doing much better in its recovery till your herd came through the fucking house door!

I know who I'll be voting for in 2012, and it won't be the assholes who turned the recovery
back again on it's head, by talking nonstop shit and doing everything possible to see America fail,
and acting really happy about it!


Sincerely.......

FUCK YOU TOO!

[panader0]

1. You hit the nail on the head Frenchie

This is the angle the Dems should pursue. Rec'd
Edit for spelling

[aaaaaa5a]

2. Outstanding! NT

[Dawson Leery]

3. k/r

[MannyGoldstein]

4. While it's true that Obama and the Democrats have followed the Republicans

in demanding deep, deep spending cuts, that's not the only thing that's killing jobs and the economy. The percentage of the stimulus that went to the non-rich (and thus had an actual stimulative effect), are running out, too.

Add to that another round of http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1223414">bipartisan "free" trade grenades being thrown at working America, and... well, it ain't good.

[Armstead]

9. Bingo....We're still being thrown the crap they were chucking in the 90's

Corporate "free trade" has wrecked our economy. So, of course, the Democratic administration keeps shoveling more of it.

[hootinholler]

5. The orange one replies:

"Kiss My Ass"



-Hoot

[comtec]

11. um... thats not an ass....

but point well made XD

[mzmolly]

6. .

:applause:

[liberal N proud]

7. The voters will never learn

They will vote the GOP out next election only to return them to power in the following cycle.

[golfguru]

8. All those horrible bills the Republican House has shoved

through must be stopped by the Dem senate & the President.

[JAnthony]

24. Um, I think almost all of them WERE stopped, in other words..

The Republican majority House has passed NOT ONE CONSTRUCTIVE THING in five full months, and has acted only to waste time, energy, resources.

No wonder the jobs situation is looking worse, we are stuck in a limbo where ABSOLUTELY NOTHING will get done between now and 2013.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

10. And yet, the threads receiving a high rec account are the anti-Obama ones.

Why is it that Democrats are quick to shit on each other, but here it is, the Republicans ran on a JOBS platform. They have done absolutely NOTHING. And yet, the Obama Derangement Syndrome reigns on DU. Thankfully an overwhelming majority of Democrats understand who the real enemies are: The Teabaggers and the RepubliCONS!!

[JAnthony]

25. Yes, I noticed that. Perhaps a bit of perspective would do us all

some good. Obama isn't perfect, and shouldn't have been such a weak spine when it came to a few of the Republican demands, but hey... nobody's perfect, and the Congressional Rethuglicons and Teabagger creeps are absolutely brainless sociopaths in suits. (E.G. Rand Paul)

[barbtries]

12. you know this is a great point.

everyone's pointing the finger at the president. i had not looked at it from this perspective, thank you, thank you.

[Wait Wut]

13. Ahhhhh, yes. 2010.

I remember it like it was just last year.

The GOP candidates claiming that there were no jobs because the Democrats were in control. How we should hire them so they could put everyone back to work and save the world!

Today...it's the Democrats fault that there are no jobs, even though they aren't in power. It's because abortion is still legal and people still want to go to the doctor when they're sick. And all those gays wanting to marry each other is really putting the economy in a tailspin. If we would all just behave like good Christianlike folks and just trust in God and the GOP we'd all be so much happier. And so they told me. And so I listened. And so I believed.

[blueclown]

14. Obama's continuation of failed and discreted neoliberal economic policies are to blame....

for the lack of recovery. President Obama had a chance to overturn decades of Friedman-economics, and he chose not to. It may ultimately be his downfall in November of 2012.

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[blueclown]

17. Please explain.

I'm not the "fringe". I voted for President Obama in 2008, and I will vote for him in 2012. However, I simply call it like it is.

[FrenchieCat]

19. Your incorrect statement that Obama had the chance to overturn

anything but chose not to is theory on your part....

As the theory goes.... (as I have heard it before from the folks who
shut their eyes tight and make up their own scenario of how if things that
couldn't have happened, happened, then....(fill in the blanks here)

Now, certainly...had we elected a dictator who had complete control of the Senate,
and not just the House.....perhaps your vision could have taken place (which is why
the House passed a Health Care bill with a Public Option, and the Senate didn't)....

But we didn't truly have a SUPER MAJORITY (and didn't have 60 votes until Franken was
allowed into the Senate)....then Ted Kennedy passed away, and his seat ended up
going to a Republican).

The point is that it is nice to Blame one man for everything, and rewrite history
to make it appear that all he had to do was say what he wanted and he would have gotten it,
but that's a bunch of shit. Hell, the Republicans and quite a few Democrats started attacking
him from day one.....and yet, you want to have us believe that he was in complete control
of getting anything done that he wanted it. To that, I say....Horseshit!

[blueclown]

20. President Obama received virtually no Republican support in either the ACA or the ARRA.

Yet both bills passed the Senate and the House. If the president had any intention of passing progressive legislation, legislation that wasn't riddled with neo-liberal throw-away crackpot theories, the American Recovery and Re-investment Act would have not had a good portion of the bill dedicated to tax cuts, billions of which went to the wealthiest Americans. The Affordable Care Act would not have been stripped down to a Heritage Foundation wet-dream with private insurance exchanges and subsidies devoted to paying for these overpriced private plans with no option for opting-in to Medicare or a public option.

The fact is that when the going got tough, the president didn't fight for legislation that would have benefited the average American. If him and his cabinet and advisors had any intention of passing true progressive legislation, the first sign of any pushback from the GOP in Congress caused for these bills to be stripped of any significant teeth.

[FrenchieCat]

22. President Obama received virtually no GOP support on most things

But Virtually isn't zero....and the folks that did vote his way, did so for a reason, in that he made the bills palatable to them.

As for the President not "fighting" for legislation that would benefit the "average" American, speak for yourself, as he has help millions, even if they don't realize how far down the hole we'd all be otherwise.

I love how some folks think they know everything about everything, and believe that if they could have been elected President (which they could not have.....even in their wildest dreams), they'd have done it so much better....when they are just talking out of their asses on the Internet. :rofl:

[blueclown]

23. Zero GOP support is zero GOP support.

The ACA received ZERO GOP support. Zero. Despite your talking point that there was not enough Democratic votes in the Senate, the fact is that there was a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate during that time, and the President received 60 Democratic votes. Despite neuturing the bill from when it left committee, and stripping it of most its teeth, the ACA received no Republican support, and yet it still passed.

The ARRA received 2 Republican votes, for a total of 61 total votes. Yet it was also diluted, with massive tax cuts given out to some of the most wealthy Americans when a more effective way to help during a recession would have been to create jobs, or spend money on infrastructure.

I don't think I know about everything. So stop with your bullshit. I do think there are some very positive things that the President and Congress are responsible for in both the ARRA and the ACA. However, that doesn't mean they are above criticism. Especially in regards to the President, whom I will vote for again but deserves some criticism for the neuturing of his 2 key policy initiatives.

[FrenchieCat]

27. Would have been nice if every single Dem in the Senate was a true progressive.....

but certain states who have a Dem senateor wouldn't elect one of those real progressive....so there is that.

So even if you criticize all day and all night long, it still wouldn't mean that your theory as to how easy things should or could have been is realistic or even true.

[JAnthony]

26. +1000 Recs for this post and this entire thread.... Exactly right...and..

I'm beginning to find that this Frenchie cat person is a very insightful poster!

Thank you!

[RBInMaine]

15. Why all this nutty panic over one month? C'mon, get a grip.

[Top Cat]

18. K&R

[Lorien]

21. Once the bipartisan bailout of the banks occured WITHOUT new regulation

that sealed out fate. The right wingers (in both parties) who work for Big Money WANT high unemployment. Sanders and Kucinich fight for jobs, but most of the rest only give the issue minimal lip service.

[Thumper79]

28. As I read this

I was thinking that I would LOVE to send your post to my teabagging representative--language and all. The post couldn't be more accurate. :argh:

[and-justice-for-all]

29. The puke/Teahadist are to concerned with dominating

a women's uterus and ending public education among other things, create jobs is the last thing they want to do; turn the US into a third world country is their top priority.

[GSLevel9]

30. lol... hyperbole perhaps? ;)

[Fearless]

31. It wasn't all that good to begin with... of course I'm "fringe"...

You know... unsatisfied.

[calimary]

32. That should be one of the main battle cries of the Dems from now til Election Day!

Where ARE the jobs, boner? While you're busy meddling in women's gynecologists' offices - find any jobs in there? When you're politically probing up into women's wombs, find any jobs up in there? Is THAT where you're looking? I have to ask because you and yours have been spending SO MUCH DAMN TIME nosing around up there. Find anything interesting, you asshole bedroom busybodies - like JOBS???????

[RBInMaine]

33. Now don't panic over one month where we still ADDED 54,000 jobs. But yes, the TeaHadists are SCUM.

[Jakes Progress]

34. You know that. I know that. But it doesn't mean shit.

The public is still going to blame the president and his party. Sad. But that is the way it is.

[Tarheel_Dem]

35. And the sad part is, it's all by design. Corporations are sitting on huge cash reserves,

but they'd rather take out a whole economy than to help this president fix it. It sucks, but it is what it is, and it's very UN-American. They may very well get the president of their choosing, but at what cost?