A Sane Mitt Romney Distinguishes Himself on Monetary Policy

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Many people are buzzing about an article at truthout.org by one Mike Lofgren, a longtime Republican staff aide on Capitol Hill who just couldn’t take the crazy anymore, left his job, and produced this buzzy (and quite well-written) lamentation about his party’s tactics and goals. If you haven’t read it, you must
The Lofgren piece is full of harsh observations and accusations, but here’s just a little sampling:
• The debt-ceiling debate was an act of “political terrorism,” in which the GOP concocted a crisis and used it to ensure that the party's unprecedented demands were met. He writes: “Everyone knows that in a hostage situation, the reckless and amoral actor has the negotiating upper hand over the cautious and responsible actor because the latter is actually concerned about the life of the hostage, while the former does not care.”
• The August FAA reauthorization fight was another instance such of hostage-taking: “Republicans were willing to lay off 4,000 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees, 70,000 private construction workers, and let FAA safety inspectors work without pay, in fact, forcing them to pay for their own work-related travel—how prudent is that?—in order to strong arm some union-busting provisions into the FAA reauthorization.”
• The GOP plan to discredit government in the people’s eyes is very conscious: “A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress's generic favorability rating among the American people. By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner.”
• As for belief as opposed to tactics, the party basically really cares only about the rich. Actually, Lofgren doesn’t say “basically.” He says “solely and exclusively.” And he explains how they’ve camouflaged this with talk of protecting small businesses and so on.
There is much, much more. He’s not very happy either about his party’s militarism, its cynical use of religion, its total opposition to doing anything about the environment, and other matters, but most
programs so they will be there in the future."

Eggman of CO 6:10PM September 07, 2011

Sesame Street Politic...
A INSANE OBAMA Thursday will break his word and want to raise taxes in a recession he created. Bad laws passed that had bad polls, EPA regulations that sucks the life out of economy growth, buy their oil not ours, and spending like a mad man. Private sector money hides under the mattress NOT CREATING JOBS.
More of his INSANE POLICIES Thursday. Won't be called STIMULUS by order of pelosi. PAY AS YOU GO is out the window AS USUAL. Government GROWTH is key to success for him. Maxine Waters wants a $$$ trillion spending spree for blacks. Bigger wanted. Who knows how much unions wants for another infrastructure project under berry. Will need their support obama. Pelosi says don't call it SHOVEL READY. Going to be real interest to see the scoring CBO gives this plan. barry wanted $$$ 9.5 trillion more in debt over time according to CBO for his budget. CAN HE BET THAT ? Sure He will THINK BIG again. How about $$$ Quid-trillion debt BERRY ? THINK INSANE. He wants to bet debt of ALL PRESIDENTS & More...
Is INSANE OBAMA AFTER ALL:
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September 06, 2011
"By 2-1, Americans Say Obama Made Economy Worse, Not Better"
"Summer of Discontent Slams Obama and Republicans – ABC News / Washington Post Poll"
"More than half of Americans now disapprove of Barack Obama’s job performance, six in 10 rate his work on the economy and job creation negatively and more than one in three say they’ve become worse off financially under his presidency – a high in ABC News/Washington Post polls since Ronald Reagan trademarked the question a generation ago."
"Those results and others underscore the depths of this summer of economic discontent. With unemployment stubbornly over 9 percent, 77 percent say the country is headed seriously off on the wrong track, up 17 points this year to the most since the end of George W. Bush’s presidency"
"In a further sign of the deep hazards to Obama, Americans by a 2-1 margin, 34 percent to 17 percent, now say his administration’s efforts have done more to harm rather than help the nation’s economy. The number who say his economic program has improved the economy has plummeted by half since January. And 47 percent say it’s had no effect."
http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/09/06/2-1-americans-say-obama-made-economy-worse-not-better
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Liberals want obama to be bold. Bad polls they do not see. Is why INSANE. Democrats should run Alvin Green of SC instead of obama. Have a better chance to win...

Bill Hedges of MO 5:40PM September 07, 2011