GOPers gear up for battle:
Congressmen and senators have departed Washington, D.C., for the July 4 recess. But unlike ordinary Americans who may take a break from their normal jobs for the holiday week, Republicans will be busy — taking time to rally voters and prepare for the giant legislative battles which await them upon their return.
Roll Call reports that Republicans are hoping to call attention to cap-and-trade, health care, and other items on the liberals’ wish list:
Using the Independence Day break to malign the work of the majority party is a time-honored tradition in Washington, and Republicans hope to live up to tradition by branding Democrats as a “far left” party intent on “big government takeovers,” “bringing terrorists to the U.S.” and purposefully inflating the debt through “wasteful spending,” according to recess messaging documents prepared for House and Senate Republicans.
At the top of the list will be Friday’s vote on cap-and-trade. Minority Leader John Boehner provided some dramatic moments in a mini-filibuster and some 44 Democrats defected from one of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s primary legislative proposals…
…Republicans will argue that, not unlike the Obama stimulus plan, the cap-and-trade measure is long on government and short on jobs.
And jobs are increasingly a worry for Democrats. Even liberal columnists like Bob Herbert complained:
Some months ago, the Obama administration and various mainstream economists forecast a peak unemployment rate of roughly 8 percent this year. It has already reached 9.4 percent, and most analysts now expect it to hit 10 percent or higher. Economists are currently spreading the word that the recession may end sometime this year, but the unemployment rate will continue to climb. That’s not a recovery. That’s mumbo jumbo.
Why this rampant joblessness is not viewed as a crisis and approached with the sense of urgency and commitment that a crisis warrants, is beyond me.
Indeed – and mumbo jumbo is all Obama and his Democrats have. It all worked splendidly while there wasn’t any actual responsibility for the mess, while there was an unpopular GOP incumbent; while the economy was shaky but not collapsed….but now Democrats are responsible, President Bush is retired in Texas and the economy more and more resembles 1932. Working with the tried-and-true, Obama and his Democrats hope to fool the American people – via their lapdog MSM – into believing that things aren’t as bad as they are and, if they are bad, that its still not Obama’s fault. This will hold as much water as a funnel as things really fall apart on the economy (just as an illustration – the other day I went to celebrate a friend’s birthday at a class Strip eatery…it was dinner time on a Saturday in the summer on the Las Vegas Strip…the place wasn’t even 1/3 full…when parking is easy at the Fashion Show Mall – and we parked mere steps away from the front door, as it were – you know that things are bad…really, really bad).
All it will take for a GOP win is for the GOP to get into the fight. We are going to have some trouble due to our 8 turncoats allowing the Democrats to put a patina of bi-partisanship on their fascist “energy” bill – but, in the end, we’ll still be able to clearly define ourselves in opposition to the job killing, liberty eroding leftist economic policies of Obama and his Democrats.
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