Republicans in Congress are in a quandary on jobs

Source: LA Times

Rooney's candid assessment puts a fine point on the political predicament facing GOP lawmakers when it comes to jobs bills. With President Obama touring the country to sell his $447-billion plan, Republicans increasingly are under pressure to present an alternative vision for reviving the economy.

For months, the party has focused on shrinking the government, sparking ugly battles with Democrats over the budget and the debt ceiling. But with job growth back at the top of the congressional agenda, Republican lawmakers have found themselves without a clear strategy to reduce the 9.1% national unemployment rate.

To many Republicans, ignoring the issue likely to define the next election is a risky proposition. While political wisdom holds that voters typically unload economic frustration on the president, lawmakers like Rooney have reason to be restless: Congress' approval rating has been in the tank for months, and tied the all-time low of 13% last week, according to a Gallup poll.

"We get a lot of email saying, 'We want all incumbents out. That includes you. We put you in, we'll take you out,'" Rooney said.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-restless-gop-20111023,0,4893483.story

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It is pretty clear that Republicans in Congress have been pursuing a strategy of trying to make the economy worse because they believe that they will politically benefit from doing absolutely nothing. Afterall, the President needs the Republican House to pass a jobs bill, and if they sit on their ass and do nothing or, worse, demand instead that the President cut taxes and regulations to the rich, the American people will give them a free pass and blame President Obama for their conduct.

The worse Republicans act, the more people will blame the President. Of course, the 99 percent movement and OWS protests are starting to hold elected officials, including Republicans, accountable for their efforts to harm the middle class hostage in order to extort cuts in taxes and regulations to the rich. Thus, here are Republicans paying lip service to unemployment even though they concede that they really are not going to make an effort to address employment.

POLL: 68% blame President Bush for nation's economic woes, 15% blame Obama http://thkpr.gs/ny1axj

http://twitter.com/#!/thinkprogress/status/127924844380688385

Will they help pass the Republican ideas which Obama now promotes as his own or will they obstruct everything outside of their insance and regressive agenda until 2017?

And this time Obama will have to use the 14th Amendment and quite possibly prepare to defy Supreme Court to avoid a default.

Senate and the House also and lose big it will not matter as much. First it will be harder to obstruct and second they may be able to read the hand writing on the wall. That is assuming that Obama recognizes he needs to go left.

deciding the Republicans need a grade of 13%. More
and more they will see right through the Republicans
and their obstructionism.

If Obama has a hard time of it now, just wait until the senate goes R in 2013.

Even if Obama gets re-elected, nothing will pass, and no nominations will be confirmed.

I wonder how much the American people will enjoy that.

"Even if Obama gets re-elected, nothing will pass, and no nominations will be confirmed."

They would be so much worse then they were when Bush was President and they controlled the House and Senate. This time they would focus on destroying SS, Medicare, environmental protections, collective bargaining, and on and on and on.

The Elephant: The GOP do care about jobs, they just do not want the people to use their Government to create jobs. Got it? So for that reason they CAN NOT offer nor support any legislation or programs that has the Government taking money from everyone, in the form of taxes, and spending that money in a way that creates Jobs for a few million out of work Americans.

They will only support plans that reduce taxes and regulation on the Wealthy and Big Business, because they only believe in the free markets ability to stimulate the economy. At it's core it's an ideological belief, but it's become doctrine in the GOP, and no one dares cross that line.

TALKING RATIONALLY TO THESE PEOPLE IS A WASTE OF TIME.

You can show them the hard data on how the US economy actually turned around after the Obama/Democratic Stimulus deal and the Auto Industry Bailouts etc. You can point to the statistics on the resulting reversal of the hemorrhaging of jobs compared to the job losses under Bush the junior. They will never accept that ANYTHING Obama the Socialist did had anything but a negative impact.

This is why we are at this impasse. That and they have gladly accepted the untold suffering their efforts has caused if it helps them put one guy out of a job.

No Job For You!

They can't win on issues, they can't win on their good looks, so they have to do the only thing that's left to them, and that's making sure as few people as possible cast a ballot. Voter ID laws and the rest of the folderol designed to address the non-existent problem of voter fraud are all intended to stop likely Democratic votes from being cast.

1. Stop creating new regulations.

2. End all existing regulations.






Poisoned water, poisoned food, poisoned air, more for their billionaire masters, less for us.

There is no out....they must bleed Obama with all the power they can muster....

But...the mode of making yourself look good by making others look worse may backfire....

as in this case when The Obama has stopped bleeding and instead...gaining Power and Credibility....much to the dismay

of the Baggers/GOP...puting their jobs killing thing at risk....

The GOPers have no respect left...n no jobs either

"lowering taxes" on the rich.