The Economy is Not Obama’s Biggest Problem – It's The Republican Sabotage of America

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The Economy is Not Obama’s Biggest Problem – It's The Republican Sabotage of America

by Eric L. Wattree
August 23, 2011 08:40 AM

The economy is not President Obama’s biggest problem. The nation’s sluggish economy and lack of jobs are merely a symptom of the GOP’s reckless, all out assault on the American people. Part of that assault is purposely keeping unemployment high in order to keep the people miserable, hungry, and divided until the next election. Many progressive and independent thinkers clearly recognize this glaring fact, yet, Obama seems to be completely oblivious to it, or at the very least, failing to educate the American people regarding what is going on.

Our current condition is a part of the GOP’s “final solution” to an unwavering agenda that they’ve pursued since the days of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. They are determined to reverse “the New Deal,” and the poor and middle-class safety net provided therein.

The New Deal was a series of programs instituted by President Roosevelt between 1933 and 1936 during the Great Depression. The programs were designed to bring relief to the poor and middle class, help the economy to recover from the depression, and reform the behavior of the wheelers and dealers who caused the depression in the first place. So naturally, the wheelers and dealers were dead set against the programs then, just as they continue to be today.

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[orpupilofnature57]

1. Their Obstruction must be Harped on.

[Cal33]

13. Right you are. But Dems. rarely ever harp on anything. That's one way

to help the Repubs. to win.

[vi5]

2. It's true, but it makes it a little hard to make the case....

When the President himself stands up there and chastizes "both sides" and talks about how his own party needs to get beyond their "rigid ideology".

I've tried time and again to pin the shitty state of our country on Republicans and their policies and their obstructionism, only to be told "Well even the Democratic president said Democrats are just as much at fault and need to compromise" or "Even the President said the Republicans love their country and are acting in good faith."

It's getting frustrating finding myself having any effort I make being undermined by our own presidents words and actions.

[Enthusiast]

12. That is the thing we just cannot ignore.

When the rhetoric of the President is in support of the opposition. Especially when the opposition is seen as so extreme and wrong in every way. It boggles the mind. It is as if his advisers only watch and believe in Fox News. Something is very wrong.

The Republicans were acting in good faith during the debt ceiling debate? No one, not even Republicans believe that.

[DonCoquixote]

3. The difference

Sadly, thanks to Clinton's telecommunications act, the father coughlins of the modern day can work at Fox News.

[INdemo]

4. Oh yes the "New Deal" we must stop the Republicans from

destroying it...But the problem is Obama is helping them...

[BeFree]

5. Answer: Congress

If we hadn't fucked up and let the repuglycans get back the House, we'd be a hell of a lot further along to making progress, right?

[INdemo]

8. Well the Tea party had loads of money and they supported

crazies that didn't know where DC was till they got on the bus.

[PonyJon]

9. Vote a STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC BALLOT - give Obama a real majority to work with. You will be happy!

You're so right. Independents really screwed the pooch when they did not follow up 2008 in 2010. If they had given the Democrats the legislature we would have been spared these Tparty ignoramuses and the completely dysfunctional legislature they created.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Yes, but how do you separate the two?

[Demeter]

7. Obama's Problems are Legion (Great in number)

Most of them self-inflicted, with the additional tone-deafness of his non-existent political skills as he "negotiates" with the GOP to make a bad situation worse.

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[Skittles]

11. NO SHIT

which is why his playing footsie with them is sickening and destructive

[Kurmudgeon]

14. Well said!

[lucca18]

15. The corporate media....

...never calls the Repugs out on what they are doing. So they keep on doing it, because they can.
The Koch brothers, voter suppression, and of course those electronic voting machines, worry me in the presidential election.