It's official: The GOP wants to keep us out of work until Obama is!

[thatcrazycajun]

It's been rumored among liberal activists, hinted at by Democratic leaders and even said outright on snarky blogs. But until now, no one had any actual, concrete, documented proof. Now we have it, courtesy of MSNBC's Chris Jansing and Rep. Loretta Sanchez, the five-term Democrat representing California's 46th and 47th districts.

On Jansing's weekday-morning news/commentary show, Jansing & Co., in this interview reposted to YouTube, Sanchez revealed earlier this week that she has personally heard fellow members from the other side of the aisle, behind closed doors in the House, admitting in her presence that they not only want to keep the economy in the toilet and millions of unemployed out of work in hopes of making President Barack Obama look bad and winning back the White House (and possibly the Senate as well) next year, but are actively working to make sure that happens.

Naturally, she refuses to name names when prompted, as she still has to (try to) work with these ass-clowns. This will admittedly make her claim harder to trust...but if true, it's the first confirmation of what many of us on the left end of the political spectrum have long suspected. It explains the mule-headed behavior regarding the debt ceiling, the American Jobs Bill and so much else about these despicable "leaders" and how they really regard those who voted them in—as tools to win an election, and nothing more.

Being among those millions of un- and under-employed mentioned above, I probably ought to be spitting mad about this. But I'm actually finding hope in this news...because between this revelation, the GOP Presidential nomination candidates' various implosions in the debates and news coverage, and last week's unequivocal national repudiation (err, "refudiation"—sorry, Ms. Palin) of their party's extremist agenda and their damn-the-economy, destroy-Obama-at-any-cost strategy, they're handing my party the elections of 2012 on the proverbial silver platter. One year hence, the American people will know which party is really interested in helping them get back to work and the economy get back on track..and which party is only interested in helping themselves to power and money.

Comments

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

So what do you and your fellow Georgians and cajuns intend to do about it? Your two home states contribute a considerable part of the GOP congressional majority, while my two states are almost wall to wall Democrats, with 4 Dem Senators between them. GOOD ones, not the Ben Nelson kind.

The Republican attacks on working people, on jobs, and on medicare and social security should make them completely unelectable anywhere. We should win 435 House seats next year and every available Senate seat. And yet, for some reason, I still doubt this will happen. Other people's parts of America are the problem, not mine. How are the good people of Georgia reacting to the news? Are they vowing to put every peach state Republican among the unemployed, or are they going to enable them some more?

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

For my part, I plan to (a) vote, (b) spread the word about what the GOP is doing (including on this page), (c) join local clubs and groups to do what we can, and (d) contribute to groups that can generate more activism around this issue. Being in a hopelessly red state (with a few small islands of blue such as Atlanta and Savannah), there is only so much a lone lib-dem like me can do...or even a small group.

As for my fellow Cajuns, from up here there is not a lot I can do about how they vote; they just gave a GOP governor a second term. My own family is mostly conservative, and I have spent decades trying to change their minds on issues. (My older brother is a particular pain in this regard, as he is a dittohead Limbaugh/Fox News type and loves to bait me on Facebook.) I will be seeing them for the holidays next month, so I will look for opportunities to discuss this where I can.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

One of our politicians once said "A week is a long time in politics."

A year from now, I'd like to think that the events of the past year or two would still be fresh in the minds of voters...but we live in an age where everything happens too much and too fast, and if, for instance, some thing happens between now and then that is big enough and bad enough and evidently not the GOP's fault--say, a natural disaster or another major terrorist incident on US soil, gods forbid--these events will be considerably reduced in apparent significance. In 2004, there was still (and still is, in my biased opinion) strong reason to believe that Bush had seized the presidency illegally and against the wishes of a clear majority, but people still voted for him.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't trust the American right to be that stupid. If they're going this far and being this overt, then there is a backup plan in place to prevent it harming their election prospects in 2012. They don't *all* believe the world will have ended by then.

[sodyera.livejournal.com]

Pathetic Republicans. Why can't they just stage a coup d'etat like a normal Empire? That way we could really unite the country-- and throw THEM out.

Done yesterday (20111115 Tu)

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