Most Americans know that Congress is doing nothing to make
the economy better. This is why, despite Democrats having a slim majority,
people state in poll after poll that they dislike Republicans, and blame them
more than Democrats for what's going on in Washington. Like Biden said, a
majority used to be 51, now it's 60, and Republicans make a point of
filibustering everything, solely for the purpose of creating chaos and
obstruction.
All Republicans are doing is proving beyond a doubt that
they do not have the best interests of our nation at heart, that they are happy
to do actual harm to our nation and our citizens in order to simply impede the
progress the voters voted for. They have nothing to offer except the same bad
old ideas that got us into the mess we're currently struggling to get out of, a
struggle which they do their best to make even worse in hopes that it will
cause harm to the Dems. The Republican party in its current incarnation (and
they haven't always been like this!) has been taken over by an extremist,
anti-American faction who are willfully setting themselves up as enemies of the
state and everybody in it. I hope voters are motivated to do something to end
their strangle-hold on our nation in November. I don’t believe they will
though.
Here is an example of the bills that have been filibustered
by the Republicans.
46 Senate Republicans
voted against President Obama’s American Jobs Act. With 60 votes needed to end
the Republican filibuster against the act that would create as many as 2
million new jobs and keep 280,000 teachers from being laid off. This bill is
unlikely to see any other action.
The 99 percent of our country who want jobs now should take
note of how each and every senator voted
on the American Jobs Act but they won’t.. And we should ask each one who
voted no—what is your plan? How would you put our country back to work and give
hope to our nation’s families? Because the truth is the Republicans who
unanimously blocked this courageous bill have no plan and seek to profit
politically from the country’s pain.
Along with the 2 million jobs, the American Jobs Act would:
•Prevent 5 million
workers from losing their unemployment benefits;
•Make immediate investments in rebuilding and upgrading
America’s highways, transit, rail, airports, bridges, ports, schools and
communications and energy infrastructure;
•Make sure the wealthy contribute their fair
share to fixing our economy; the American Jobs Act is paid for by a 5.6 percent
surtax on millionaires
The Republicans than have the balls to blame the President
because of his lack of ideas to get the economy on the right track.
Before Rep. Paul Ryan left the stage Wednesday night at the
Tampa Bay Times Forum, journalists took to Twitter for some real-time
fact-checking.
Soon after, several media outlets, including The Huffington
Post, called attention to misleading statements from Ryan's speech. The New
Republic's Jonathan Cohn asked if it was the most dishonest convention
speech" ever. New York's Dan Amira described it shortly before midnight as
"appallingly disingenuous and shamelessly hypocritical," with his
colleague Jonathan Chait -- who claims to have "the equivalent of a
master’s degree in Ryan lie-ology" -- later calling out the Republican
candidate for "brazen dishonesty."
At around 12:15 a.m., the Associated Press hit the wire with
a piece detailing "factual shortcuts" on issues like Medicare,
economic stimulus, and the closing of a GM plant in his hometown of Janesville.
The majority of the speech was full of lies but no one seems to care.
With the "Win At Any Cost" philosophy that the
Romney ticket is subscribing to, it doesn't matter if the statements are true,
as long as there are enough people out there who will believe them - at least
enough to tip the scales in their favor.
The fact that the media and voting public aren't completely outraged by
the hubris of the bald-faced falsehoods that are being fed to them is a sad
commentary on how far we have fallen.
Here is a partial list of lies told last night.
Accused President Obama’s health care law of funneling money
away from Medicare “at the expense of the elderly.” In fact, Medicare’s chief
actuary says the law “substantially improves” the system’s finances, and Ryan
himself has embraced the same savings.
Accused Obama of doing “exactly nothing” about
recommendations of a bipartisan deficit commission — which Ryan himself helped
scuttle.
Claimed the American
people were “cut out” of stimulus spending. Actually, more than a quarter of
all stimulus dollars went for tax relief for workers.
Faulted Obama for
failing to deliver a 2008 campaign promise to keep a Wisconsin plant open. It
closed less than a month before Obama took office.
Blamed Obama for the loss of a AAA credit rating for the
U.S. Actually, Standard & Poor’s blamed the downgrade on the uncompromising
stands of both Republicans and Democrats.
I guess that money ,obstruction,voter suppression,and
lies are the keys to power in the future. I still blame the corporate media and
the inability of Americans to read and research policies and facts. I have no
faith in the public and predict a victory for ignorance and liars
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