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Proud Liberal Dem

(24,412 posts)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:20 AM Sep 2012

Since Republicans

don't believe that government can't create jobs and don't regard government employment as "real employment", then it seems to me that they should be calling for immediate Congressional hearings and issuing subpoenas for our country's "job creators" to come to Capitol Hill and tell us why they aren't, you know, creating jobs? Otherwise, they need to be putting their heads together with President Obama and Democrats in Congress to come up with some solutions and some REAL jobs bills like, oh say, the American Jobs Act. Even if they don't agree with it 100%, it ought to be at least used as a starting point or they need to explain to us what THEIR plan is NOW. We shouldn't have to wait for the election to DO something. This shouldn't even be a partisan issue. Republicans are hurting out there every bit as much as Democrats, as are the young, minorities, women, etc. Anything else from them is just cheap and empty gestures and spin. They want to sit around and blame President Obama and his "Democratic Congress for the first two years of his Presidency" not getting anything done on jobs, fine. It's not really true and belies the actual historical record number of Republican Senate filibusters that killed a lot of bills that might have helped but what's their excuse for the past two years that they've controlled the House and continued just about the same rate of filibusters in the Senate? Anybody remember the negative effect that the debt ceiling debacle had on the recovery? How is what they have been doing in Congress for the past 4 years anything short of treasonous? It's certainly not "politics as usual" for sure.

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