Thread: GOP: now & in the future

Originally Posted by misskit

Unemployment drops in states electing new Democrat governors.

Colorado - 8.8% to 8.1% = a decline of 0.7%

New York - 8.2% to 8.6% = an increase of 0.4%

Oregon - 9.9% to 8.4% = a decline of 1.5%

California - 12.1% to 10.8% = a decline of 1.3%

Connecticut - 9.3% to 7.8% = a decline of 1.5%

Hawaii - 6.7% to 6.3% = a decline of 0.4%

Minnesota - 6.8% to 5.6% = a decline of 1.2%

Vermont - 6.0% to 4.6% = a decline of 1.4%

New Republican governors rapidly bringing down unemployment in their states - Orlando Political Buzz | Examiner.com


wooowooo!


Hasn't unemployment dropped 1% under Obama?

It's the same nationwide. There is going to be some pent-up demand for workers. The banks need to start lending all that money we gave them, but mainly, housing and construction are the big issues. Part of that could be helped by much-needed infrastructure spending, but the Republicans are afraid of anything that might help Obama, country be damned. The governors used to act independently of party according to what was good for their states, but the Republican governors now are mostly good little Party members, taking orders from the Central Committee. The analogy with the Soviets is deliberate.

More rethug news,..

First the GOP’s continued War on Women,……

Wisconsin rethug state senator pushes bill classifying single parenthood as child abuse

Section 1. 48.982 (2) (g) 2. of the statutes is amended to read: 48.982 (2) (g) 2. Promote statewide educational and public awareness campaigns and materials for the purpose of developing public awareness of the problems of child abuse and neglect. In promoting those campaigns and materials, the board shall emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.Section 2. 48.982 (2) (g) 4. of the statutes is amended to read: 48.982 (2) (g) 4. Disseminate information about the problems of and methods of preventing child abuse and neglect to the public and to organizations concerned with those problems. In disseminating that information, the board shall emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.

A story about a retarded Rethug governor,……

Worst TB outbreak in 20 years kept secret | www.palmbeachpost.com

The CDC officer had a serious warning for Florida health officials in April: A tuberculosis outbreak in Jacksonville was one of the worst his group had investigated in 20 years. Linked to 13 deaths and 99 illnesses, including six children, it would require concerted action to stop.

That report had been penned on April 5, exactly nine days after Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed the bill that shrank the Department of Health and required the closure of the A.G. Holley State Hospital in Lantana, where tough tuberculosis cases have been treated for more than 60 years.


And fuck religious freedom,….

Republican Colorado lawmaker: maybe we should consider banning new mosques

Senator Kevin Grantham attended the Western Conservative Summit in Denver this past week, where Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders delivered a speech calling Islam a, “dangerous, totalitarian ideology,” and saying that to stop the threat of creeping Sharia law, American legislators should ban the construction of new mosques. In an interview with the paper after the speech, Grantham said Wilders’ fear of an Islam was “warranted,” and that his anti-mosque plan was worth hearing out.


Another retarded Rethug Governor,…

Perry ‘proudly’ refuses health care to 1.2 million low-income Texans


Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) “proudly” declared that he will decline to implement key tenets of the Affordable Care Act — a move that will see his state forgo an estimated $164 billion dollars in federal aid and leave over 1.2 million low-income Texans, who would have finally been eligible for health care, helpless and uninsured.


And rethugs pissin’ in the wind,…..

Marsha Blackburn Wishes Republicans Would Take Meaningless Health Care Repeal Votes Every Day | Video Cafe


Apparently CNN thinks as little about wasting their viewer's time as Tennessee Rep. Marsh Blackburn thinks of wasting her constituents' time with utterly meaningless votes that are going nowhere to repeal the Affordable Care Act. They actually had this flame thrower on there for the better part of the show. Richard Socarides rightfully called Blackburn out for exactly what she and her fellow House members are doing, which is purely political theater.

Par for the course with their unwillingness to ever admit they're wrong or lying about anything, Blackburn refused to admit that's what they're doing was theater, but then proving his point, said she wished they were taking those votes every single day. If there's one thing Republicans are good at, it is theater because they sure as hell don't care about actually governing. And they continue to prove it with stunts like this one.


And a little bit of truth from one old fat white Rethug,……

GOP 12: Ed Rollins: GOP bunch of old, fat, white guys

"It is a bunch of old, white guys, and unfortunately, a lot of them are fat like me -- like Haley Barbour, my former deputy, and others.

"We need to basically broaden the base, we need to have more women, we need to have more Latinos, we need to have more African-Americans."