Just days before the Nov. 2010 elections, the top Senate Republican, Mitch McConnell, spoke with striking candor about the GOP's top priority going forward. It wasn't jobs, despite the fact that the economy was still in the grip of the worst financial downturn since the Great Depression. No, it was winning the next election.
"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president," McConnell said.
Republicans in Congress have spent the last 20 months trying to live up to that goal, obstructing any action on jobs legislation in Congress for the sake of a political victory in November. Their focus has been so short-sighted that even some congressional Republicans have complained about their inaction. Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor recently declared the remainder of 2012 substantively over and said Republicans would focus on sending "signals" to the American public.
Americans need much more than "signals." This week we unveiled the No Excuses Facebook page to highlight congressional Republicans complete inaction on jobs legislation. Even on measures that have traditionally elicited bipartisan appeal -- such as the Invest In America Jobs Act that Ways and Means Democrats introduced last week that would extend the 100 percent bonus depreciation tax deduction for U.S. companies through 2012 -- have been ignored by Republican leadership. Politics, as Sen. McConnell made clear 20 months ago, comes first. Not jobs.
Nearly 13 million Americans remain unemployed at no fault of their own. Yet the Republican mantra continues to be, "you're on your own."
And so the Republicans march toward the November elections -- on their own -- failing to act on jobs.
They have no excuses.
Visit the NO EXCUSES Facebook page.
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Mary Dent: Demystifying the JOBS Act: What It Means for Small Businesses
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| Obama | Romney | |
|---|---|---|
| Electoral Votes (270 to win) |
332 | 206 |
| Obama | Romney | |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 65,899,660 | 60,932,152 |
| Percent | 51.1% | 47.2% |
| Democrats* | Republicans | |
|---|---|---|
| Current Senate | 53 | 47 |
| Seats gained or lost | +2 | -2 |
| New Total | 55 | 45 |
| Democrats | Republicans | |
|---|---|---|
| Seats won | 201 | 234 |
----------DEMOCRATS CREATE WEALTH AND JOBS-----------
1.From Harding In 1921 to Bush in 2003
2.Democrats held White House for 40 years and Republicans for 42.5 years.
3.Democrats created 75,820,000 net new jobs -- Republicans 36,440,000.
4.Per Year Average—Democrats 1,825,200---Republicans 856,400.
5.Republicans had 9 presidents during the period and 6 had depression or recession.
6.Republicans had a recession/depression in 177 months and Democrats in 32 months.
7.DOW—1928 to 2003—Stock market gained 11% average per year under D presidents versus 2% under R presidents. Small Cap stocks gained 18% as yearly average under D and minus 3% under R.
8.GDP—grew by 43% more under Democrats.
9.Income Growth—1948-2005--each increased (percentagewise)under D presidents over R presidents by these numbers-- Quintiles--(Top-10%)--(2nd-71%)-(third-127%)-(fourth-212%)-(fifth-550%) wow
source--TimothyNoah-- Nov. 2010 in Slate magazine
Question—Why would a working person vote for a Republican for President?
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Comparing Democrat’s hero-CLINTON—versus Republican’s hero--REAGAN
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1.JOBS—grew by 43% more under Clinton.
2.GDP---grew by 57% more under Clinton.
3.DOW—grew by 700% more under Clinton..
4.NASDAQ-grew by 18 times as much under Clinton.
4.SPENDING--grew by 28% under Clinton---80% under Reagan.
5.DEBT—grew by 43% under Clinton—187% under Reagan.
6. DEFICITS—Clinton got a large surplus--grew by 112% under Reagan.
7.NATIONAL INCOME—grew by100% more under Clinton.
8.PERSONAL INCOME—Grew by 110% more under Clinton.
SOURCES—Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.BLS.Gov)--Economic Policy Institute (EPI.org
www.house.gov
www.majorityleader.gov/JobsTracker
Right?
And all held hostage by Harry Reid.
!0 more money for the rich.
2)The workers and poor and middle class does not matter.
3)Unfettered free market to cheat. con and lie.
4)Get Ugly Condi to write a new script for another war.
There another word for when you're elected to do something and rather than doing that, you do something else that is not in the best interest or even in the consideration of your constituents.
Unemployment does not hurt them,.
Does that sound like a Congress that is focused like a laser on "jobs, jobs, jobs"???
According to the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD [ a portion of the US Library of Congress] , the US Senate and the US House, there have been 3 bills introduced in the House this Congress specifically addressing abortion.by Joe Pitts [R-Pa], Chris Smith [R-NJ] and Mike Pence [R-In].
There have been 31 jobs-related bills from the GOP in the House including 5 that have been signed into law by Obama. Of these remaining, 4 are emerging from committee, 1 has been voted on already in the House, and 15 are being held up in the Senate.
www.thomas.loc.gov List of Bills Introduced in the 112th Congress.[ House and Senate].
B) You're so full of it, it's truly not funny. Here is a link to Thomas where I put in "abortion" into the search engine and received SIXTY FOUR results. Here's a sample of the ones introduced by Republicans that would restrict abortion or other reproductive rights of women:
H.R. 3 (No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act), H.R. 165, H.R. 112 (Sanctity of Human Life Act), H.R. 217 (Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act), H.R. 358 (Protect Life Act), H.R. 361 (Abortion Non-Discrimination Act of 2011), H.R. 364 (Common Sense Health Reform Americans Actually Want Act), H.R. 374 (Life at Conception Act)....
I hope you're getting the idea. And that's just from the first TEN bills of the 64 on Thomas that came up in the "abortion" search. There are AT LEAST 35-40 more that include anti abortion/reproductive rights provisions!!!
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/thomas
C) Most of those "jobs-related" bills are NOT "jobs" bills. They include a bill to prevent the EPA from regulating farm dust. Does that qualify as a "jobs" bill on whatever planet you are living on? Cause here on Earth, that does NOT qualify as a true "jobs" bill. And MOST of those 30 bills from the GOP are NOT true "jobs" bills. Not even close...
And those signals will be in code, since saying the actual words they are hoping to express would get them in even deeper.