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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVan Jones calls the GOP strategy what it is - Bodies on the Beach...
I'll use even more succinct terminology: TREASON.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/24/1149565/--Bodies-on-the-Beach-GOP-Strategy-Must-Fail
Their theory is this: if enough dead bodies pile up on the beach, Americans will fire the lifeguard - and Republicans can get the lifeguard's job.
That is why Republicans in Congress have blocked traditionally conservative ideas like tax cuts for small businesses, simply because the President proposed them.
They have relentlessly opposed commonsense policies like helping young people pay less on student loans or making sure more folks whose mortgages are underwater can refinance their homes. They did all they could to block passage of the stimulus bill. They conveniently ignored the fact that the stimulus embraced many conservative principles: one-third was to help states and cities that were struggling to keep teachers and first-responders on the job. Another one-third was for tax cuts for 95% of Americans.
If they had stopped there, it would have been bad. But they went one step further. They brought our nation to the brink of default over a debt limit they had always raised in the past.
In short, they made things worse. On purpose.
porphyrian
(18,530 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)flamingdem
(39,313 posts)and I'm sure glad to see it
Obama switched the tone at the last debate, the line is being drawn against bullies with huge resources and power
freshwest
(53,661 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)They were on a coordinated strategy of "Fuck President Obama by fucking the country."
Fucking traitors!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts).. their strategy has worked on me and mine, as there is almost no hope that we will even have dignity left IF things ever turn around for us. Our lifetimes of work have been summarily and unceremoniously stripped from us as they played power games. What's even worse is that there are so many millions of others like us. I fear what the future will bring and know that it didn't have to be this way.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth