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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Mid-Term Republican Wave Is Presumably To Be Driven By Concerns Over Jobs and Deficits

Newsweek:
House Minority Leader John Boehner [accused] in a "major economic address" on Tuesday, [that] President Obama is "doing everything possible to prevent jobs from being created" while refusing to do anything at all "about bringing down the deficits that threaten our economy." Elect Republicans in November, Boehner assured his audience, and we will put an end to this insanity… [but] the things that Republicans have said they want to do won't actually boost employment or reduce deficits. In fact, much the opposite. By combing through a variety of studies and projections from nonpartisan economic sources, we… found that if Republicans were in charge from January 2009 onward -- and if they were now given carte blanche to enact the proposals they want to -- the projected 2010–2020 deficits would be larger than they are under Obama, and fewer people would probably be employed.

Follow the link for patient substantiation of the claim. As Howard Dean once said, in a slogan that every Democrat should repeat into every mic within reach and every ear within earshot until it becomes common wisdom that is true for once, and an anvil hung permanently around the GOP's neck, "Republicans cannot be trusted with your money."

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