11/7/11
Do Nothing Republican Congress Could Sink GOP In 2012
The Republicans in Congress have made a wager. They've bet the political ranch that they will destroy Barack Obama's chances for re-election if they can block his proposals to produce jobs. In fact, it's the GOP that could lose big when the votes are counted a year from now. Republicans completely control the House. In the Senate they can use the filibuster to prevent anything from passing. ...
Republicans are relying on the simple proposition that the guy in charge -- the president -- is to blame. But every day of intransigence increases the odds that in fact, they themselves will get the rap.
In 1945 Vice President Harry Truman became president when Franklin Roosevelt died in office. After the War, Truman presided over a substantial post-war recession that helped make him "unelectable" in the eyes of most pundits and politicians. GDP dropped by a whopping 12%. His political viability was complicated further when the Democratic base split into three parts. A portion followed Progressive Henry Wallace and much of the Southern Democratic white vote (the south was a Democratic base at the time) supported Strom Thurmond's segregationist Dixiecrat Party. In the April before the election, Truman's overall approval rating in the Gallup poll was just 36%.
But, Truman barnstormed the country, traveling 21,000 miles on a "whistle stop" tour where he decried the "do-nothing Republican Congress." Though the economy began a modest improvement in 1948, no one -- but Truman himself -- believed he had a chance to defeat Thomas Dewey -- a former Governor cut out of the same elite cloth as Mitt Romney. Truman won.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-cream...
Republicans are relying on the simple proposition that the guy in charge -- the president -- is to blame. But every day of intransigence increases the odds that in fact, they themselves will get the rap.
In 1945 Vice President Harry Truman became president when Franklin Roosevelt died in office. After the War, Truman presided over a substantial post-war recession that helped make him "unelectable" in the eyes of most pundits and politicians. GDP dropped by a whopping 12%. His political viability was complicated further when the Democratic base split into three parts. A portion followed Progressive Henry Wallace and much of the Southern Democratic white vote (the south was a Democratic base at the time) supported Strom Thurmond's segregationist Dixiecrat Party. In the April before the election, Truman's overall approval rating in the Gallup poll was just 36%.
But, Truman barnstormed the country, traveling 21,000 miles on a "whistle stop" tour where he decried the "do-nothing Republican Congress." Though the economy began a modest improvement in 1948, no one -- but Truman himself -- believed he had a chance to defeat Thomas Dewey -- a former Governor cut out of the same elite cloth as Mitt Romney. Truman won.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-cream...
LOL!!! As that saying goes, "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it". (smile)
Plus, it seem some on the right are now trying to get out of their no tax raise pledge...again proving that a foundation of emotion is never stable...because the left are offering the super committee $trillionsin cuts to intitlement programs in exchange for taxing the rich as the rich are asking them to do in the millionairs and billionaire movement to get htmeselves taxed as our president is asking...ONLY IN AMERICA...(smile)