Let’s see if we have this one right. The Republicans are fighting to add $700 billion to the deficit with tax cuts for millionaires, but refuse to vote to extend unemployment insurance for people who are struggling?
The GOP argument is a weak one. Claiming that unemployed people don’t have jobs because they are lazy, is a statement that could only be made by someone who has not tried to find a job when the competition is 15 million other people. Hypocrisy should be the new name for the Republican Party.
While Democrats are not happy with their spineless representatives, there is hope among progressives that the GOP will self-destruct with their obvious bias for millionaires while the jobless are cut off.
The same rage directed at incumbents in 2010 will simply be directed at the Republican incumbents in 2012. The result will be the exact opposite of what the party of Hypocrisy wants – which is to unseat President Obama.
People are not stupid. The Republicans won a majority in the House because voters wanted to see progress, which they were not getting from the previous occupants of our legislative branch. Now that the GOP has the reins, it appears that the horse and cart are running out of control.
If the Republicans continue on their reckless path of a reverse Robin Hood theory, Obama will win the White House in 2012 in a landslide. Not because voters think he is a better candidate, but because the alternative is worse.
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