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Republicans need to make up their minds: Is President Obama a socialist or a corporate stooge?
The president claims his economic agenda is for the middle class. But its actually for the well-connected, Paul Ryan, the GOPs 2012 vice presidential nominee, wrote this week in USA Today, rejecting Obamas latest proposal for a corporate tax cut. Theres no doubt that it works well for them. But for the rest of us, its not working at all.
Ryan, in his brief commentary, protested that Obama is interested in tax reform for corporations but not for families or small business. He further accused Obama of implementing health-care and regulatory policies that favor big businesses and big banks.
Thats rich.
Ryan, after all, is the guy who just a year ago accused Obama of sowing social unrest and class resentment, of supporting a government-run economy and of denigrating people who are successful. He has charged the president with leading the nation toward a cradle-to-grave, European-style social welfare state.
Republican lawmakers seem to think that Americans have short memories and lack Internet connections, for their latest line of attack that Obamas health-care and tax policies favor the corporate elite directly contradicts their previous allegation that Obama was waging class warfare with socialist policies attacking these very same corporate elites.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-gop-flips-the-script-on-president-obama/2013/08/01/7c51a724-fafa-11e2-9bde-7ddaa186b751_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,392 posts)This means that the Republicans might expand the EITC and/or raise the minimum wage? Right?
gulliver
(13,168 posts)mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)Why? They call him socialist, corporatist, Nazi, and accuse him of being Muslim and over-the-top Christian all in the same breath. Why? Because nobody fucking cares! It doesn't matter what he is, just as long as Republicans are calling him it.
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)When he does something that bush did, they attack him.
Basically, they hate and are too stupid to see beyond their hate.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,392 posts)'nuff said.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)Ryan, in his brief commentary, protested that Obama is interested in tax reform for corporations but not for families or small business. He further accused Obama of implementing health-care and regulatory policies that favor big businesses and big banks.
Yes, you can be embarrassed, you know who you are. And so do we.
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)...looks like Eddie Munster's illegitimate child stepped through the time/space continuum and ended up aligned with OWS.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)the Repubs useful idiots on the left are just whiners.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)Paul Ryan: Me sucky-sucky. Me love you too much.
Corporate Lobbyist: Five dollars is all the Koch brothers allow me to spend.
Paul Ryan: Okay. Ten dollar each.
Corporate Lobbyist: What do we get for ten dollars?
Paul Ryan: Every t'ing you want.
Corporate Lobbyist: Everything?
Paul Ryan: Every t'ing.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)The ludicrous "socialist" bullshit was to fire up the ignorant R voters.
It doesn't really matter what they attack him on; the point is to attack him. In the campaign to discredit him, flip-flopping is irrelevant.
I've said all along there was plenty of authentic ammunition they could choose from. His over-friendliness to corporations is just one.