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Unemployment is 9+%. Housing is ready for another wave of foreclosures. Renewable energy programs are under attack. States and localities are cutting programs for the least among us.
Nancy Pelosi speaks the simple truth about our Do-Nothing Republican Congress: Schieffer: The fact is, the Congress has been in session since January and it's done basically nothing.
PELOSI: Well you can talk to Mr. Boehner about that.
SCHEIFFER: So it's all their fault. It's not your fault?
PELOSI: They set the agenda. We have said every day that they're there another day goes by and there's no jobs agenda or jobs bill that has come to the floor. But again, it's about how we can work together to go forward. These issues are bigger than politics, they're bigger than elections. They're about the country that we will live in. And what we will see as we go forward is one vision of America that's encompassed in the Republican budget plan that abolishes Medicare, that makes college unaffordable for nearly ten million young people in our country, that takes us deeper into debt and does not create jobs, or you can talk about an agenda that talks about making it in America, investing in American education, innovation and that's what campaigns are about.
Doug Lamborn's contribution to a jobs agenda? Cut NPR. Never mind the miniscule amount of money that goes to public broadcasting. Talk about oil company subsidies and Lamborn says we should cut NREL instead. For a dim bulb he sure knows which side his bread is greased on.
Mike Coffman's contribution? Not enough "In god we trust" for him.
And on and on with the trite and tivial. Republicans say government doesn't work and are doing everything possible to make it true.
They don't care if you or I are working, productive or contributing to society. They have one goal right now: get that Black Man out of the White House. That is Republicans' Job 1. They couldn't care less who has a job as their tactics to achieve that bald-faced goal are turned into policy. |
