Day: August 29, 2010

Careful Who You Attack

Daily Agitator

It could bite you in the butt!

The GOP has been attacking just about everyone in an attempt to gain some political advantage….they are attacked such groups as welfare recipients, unemployed, the sick the aged and just about everybody that is not in their “inner circle”…..but recently minority leader of the House of Representatives, John Boehner has hit a new high or low, which ever you prefer……in his speech on the economy he attacked a specific work force….federal bureaucrats…..

As reported in the Hill in an article by Jared Allen:

In criticizing federal pay, Republicans appear to be seizing on rising anti-Washington sentiment magnified by the struggling economy.

“We’ve seen not just more government jobs, but better-paying ones too,” Boehner told the City Club of Cleveland on Tuesday in what was billed as a major speech on economic policy.

“It’s just nonsense to think that taxpayers are subsidizing the fattened salaries and pensions of federal bureaucrats who are out there right now making it harder to create private sector jobs,” he added.

Okay, what do you think?  Before you answer keep in mind that your elected officials are bureaucrats….so in attacking them …Boehner is attacking himself…….bitching about their bloated salaries..he is bitching about his bloated salary…..maybe he and the rest of the attack drones should pick their attacks more carefully and avoid looking like a complete boob.

We Have A New Plan

From the VOMITORIUM

The GOP has a new plan…well at least the messenger is new and wanting to look like a possible leader of the House of Representatives….John Boehner.  On Tuesday, he gave a major economic speech and he offered up the new plan….as reported by Miami Herald:

The top Republican in the House of Representatives on Tuesday called for President Barack Obama to fire top economic advisers Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers as part of an effort to revive the ailing economy.

Boehner’s speech was a major part of a renewed GOP effort to offer specific alternatives to Democratic economic plans. Republicans have been buoyed recently by polls that found they stand to gain, and perhaps gain big, in the November congressional elections, largely because of voters’ concern about the economy.

The centerpiece of the GOP strategy is to extend the Bush administration’s tax reductions, originally enacted in 2001 and 2003. Democratic leaders want to extend only the cuts that affect individuals who earn less than $200,000 annually and joint filers who make less than $250,000.

-“President Obama should announce that he will veto any job-killing bills sent to his desk by a lame-duck Congress, including ‘card check,’ a national energy tax and any other tax increases on families and small businesses,” he said. Democrats counter that they aren’t seriously considering any broad-based tax increases.

-Obama should submit to Congress an “aggressive spending reduction package,” which the White House has argued that it’s already done.

-Paying more attention to small business, which the White House also has maintained that it’s done.

Okay I see a few points that I need to address…….GOP wants the economic team to resign…but do not say who should replace them…….want to extend the tax cuts of Bush…which is a typical stand..nothing new here.  And then there is their call for small business attention…yet they voted almost to a person against the latest legislation to help small business.
Sorry people….but there is NOTHING new in this latest plan….just like there has been NOTHING new from them since Reagan.  But it will be effective because it is vague and easily understood by people with little knowledge of the workings within the government.  And did NOT hear one word about how jobs will be created by this “plan”.