GOP PLAN HIT FROM ALL SIDES

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Republicans map out their agenda of less
Tea Party Thinks It's Not Enough ... Economists Think It Doesn't Make Sense
By Lori Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 6, 2010; 12:33 AM

Republicans are mapping an agenda for the new Congress that calls for a radical reduction in government spending, a hard-line stance against new taxes and a "sustained" battle against federal regulators - all aimed at easing the concerns of voters desperate for jobs and anxious about the soaring national debt.

The path charted in the party's "Pledge to America" and in a new blueprint released this week by Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the No. 2 Republican in the House, is certain to provoke clashes with the White House. It is already stirring dissension among Republicans who say it doesn't go far enough. Less certain is its ability to make progress on the nation's top economic priorities, particularly job creation.

On Friday, the Labor Department reported that the unemployment rate was stuck at 9.6 percent for the third month in a row, although job growth accelerated in October. Employers added a total of 151,000 jobs - more than double analysts' expectations. Gains were concentrated in the private sector, where 159,000 new jobs offset the loss of 8,000 government positions.

It was the strongest job growth since May, and a welcome sign that the recovery may finally be strengthening. Still, many economists see the need for further government spending to bring down unemployment. This week, the Federal Reserve announced plans to pump $600 billion into the economy through massive purchases of Treasury bonds to fuel the recovery.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/05/AR2010110507092.html?hpid=topnews

[steelmania75]

1. It's funny how they want to cut taxes, yet somehow balance the budget

Someone needs to present a GREAT argument to the American people explaining why we need taxes and that there will be a truce. Americans pay more in taxes(specifically the rich), but the government WILL NOT waste that money on stupid wars and unnecessary programs for the defense budget.

[toddwv]

That's the problem. It has been a stated goal to "starve the beast".

Their agenda for decades has been to run the deficit up while making "defense" spending sacrosanct and untouchable. The GOP hope is that we reach a breaking point where the fed gov't has no option but to cut social spending.

Meanwhile, not a peep from the right about multi-billion dollar floating pieces of shit.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-28/northrop-navy-ships-not-survivable-in-combat-u-s-defense-official-says.html

And they have a large group of uninformed or deliberately misled people who, if they actually bothered to think things through, would be like "WTF?!"

[BuelahWitch]

2. I hope they get unholy hell from the monster they've created

For the next two years, day and night, non-stop HELL!

[The Blue Flower]

6. Thanks for the photo

Really takes me back!!

[BuelahWitch]

15. Anytime!

:hi:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

13. The FOX monster will fix everything for them

[jpak]

3. Boner better get unemployment down to 5% *and* run a budget surplus by Fourth of July

yup

[PeaceNikki]

4. Here's a depressing list of their action plan for killing Wisconsin

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=186x30959

:(

[barbtries]

5. when i read the headline

all i thought was, what plan? what plan was that? oh, yeah, death to poor people and tax cuts to the rich. all a load of crap.

[Clyde39]

7. Screw the poor---consistent Republican dogma

They have stated they will immediately try to reverse "Obamacare" as they like to call it. They want to abolish the health care plan and completely ignore all the suffering that will ensue. Where is their conscience?

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. This has nothing to do with creating jobs, per se.

This is about neutering regulation to give the guilty a chance to get away with the crooked shit they've done.

[Denninmi]

9. I'm beginning to think it might be the best way.

Let them do every f-ing thing they want. Turn this country into one great big Teahadist version of Aghanistan.

Perhaps that is going to be the only way to wake up the vast majority of the population.

It's like an alcoholic, I guess, they HAVE to hit rock bottom before they recognize the problem and try to do something about it.

[safeinOhio]

10. Repubs say it is basic econ 101

that you don't raise taxes on the rich in an economic recession.

Then totally ignore basic econ 101, you don't cut government spending in a recession.

must have missed class that day.

:puke:

[Catshrink]

11. Check out this 'toon

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9498643&mesg_id=9498643

[ProfessionalLeftist]

12. None of these things are...

..."aimed at easing the concerns of voters desperate for jobs and anxious about the soaring national debt."

What they're aimed at is making the Obama admin a failure, thus making him a one-term President, and making themselves and their corprat friends richer at the expense of everyone and everything else.

Now, they can't SAY that - so the say that their plans are "aimed at easing the concerns of voters desperate for jobs and anxious about the soaring national debt."

But you know that's bullshit. These same parasites weren't so concerned with government spending and huge deficits when it was THEM who were doing it and creating them.

[Scurrilous]

14. K & R

:thumbsup: