Whether or not you believe Obama is doing a good job, giving credence to the screeching of the GOP and their ilk about the "demon who is Obama" only serves to distract from their true goals.
(how about we try this one without name-calling and cartoons, kiddos? I have a prize for everyone if we can make it to 3 pages without any of either. Anyone posting such will immediately be sent to the naughty chair.)
So let's read and discuss:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rober...410&utm_medium=email&utm_content=FeatureTitle
(how about we try this one without name-calling and cartoons, kiddos? I have a prize for everyone if we can make it to 3 pages without any of either. Anyone posting such will immediately be sent to the naughty chair.)
So let's read and discuss:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rober...410&utm_medium=email&utm_content=FeatureTitle
So the Republicans now have the audacity to argue that President Obama and the Democrats are somehow responsible for the hardships that they themselves created. In effect they want the election to be a referendum on whether the Democrats have mopped and swept fast enough cleaning up the mess that they created.
They will do everything they can to prevent America from focusing on the real choice before them in the fall elections -- a choice between going backward to the failed policies of the past that caused this catastrophe and a new direction that will create sustainable, long-term, bottom-up, widely shared economic growth. The real question before the country is whether it is willing to hand over the keys to the economy once again to the same gang that just caused the most serious economic pile up in 60 years.
That's where the dirty little secrets come in. It turns out that the leaders of the Republican Party have learned nothing from the reckless escapade that caused so much economic pain, and came perilously close to inflicting mortal wounds on the American economy.
They still actually believe -- despite what we have all just experienced -- that by "freeing" big oil, the insurance companies and Wall Street banks of the "burdens" of government accountability, that the plutocrats and the "invisible hand" of the market will lead American into the promised land of economic prosperity.