How Obama Can Really Hurt the GOP: Focus on Its Radical Economic Plan

[Bill USA]

(emphasis my own - because I couldn't get 'link' to work if the url is too long)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/07/how-obama-can-really-hurt-the-gop-focus-on-its-radical-economic-plan.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_morning&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_morning

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It’s the third straight month of anemic growth, and the economists seem to agree that it means we’re not going to be seeing the bulls run any time soon. A decent unemployment picture—say, 170,000 jobs a month being gained, which might, by election time, have gotten the jobless rate back down below the 7.9 percent it was when Obama was sworn in—augured for one kind of Obama fall campaign. Emphasize that we’re finally getting out of the woods first, and bash Romney second.

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Romney is Bush on steroids. His tax plan is far more extreme. He wants to give millionaires an average—average!—tax cut of $250,000. The same plan would add $3 trillion to the deficit over a decade. Haven’t we tried this before, and didn’t it help lead—along with massive deregulation, which Romney also promises to pursue—to the biggest meltdown in 80 years?

The fact that Romney has no actual jobs plan beyond letting the free market work its magic... It’s just endless.
The radical tax plan and its affect on the deficit hasn’t stopped Romney from backing “cut, cap, and balance,” a congressional GOP plan that calls for a Balanced Budget Amendment! Imagine that chutzpah. It’d be as if I torched all my neighbors’ azaleas and then demanded we form a block-beautification committee. Cut, cap, and balance is so extreme, so ludicrous, that 35 GOP senators—a pretty hardened assemblage, you’ll agree—haven’t signed it. It’s out there in Tea Party land.

Want more hypocrisy? Glad you asked. Cut, cap, and balance requires gargantuan and immediate cuts to the federal budget. But remember what Romney told Time magazine in May?: “if you take a trillion dollars, for instance, out of the first year of the federal budget, that would shrink GDP over 5 percent. That is by definition throwing us into recession or depression. So I’m not going to do that, of course.”

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"give millionaires an average—average!—tax cut of $250,000" -
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/may/08/barack-obama/barack-obama-says-mitt-romneys-tax-plan-gives-mill/

"The same plan would add $3 trillion to the deficit over a decade:" http://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2012/02/29/romneys-tax-plan-would-add-3t-to-deficit-over-a-decade

"Cut, cap, and balance" - http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2011/07/25/boehner-calls-for-cut-cap-and-balance.html

[dtom67]

1. Not all that vulnerable...

I don't think facts have posed much of a problem for the GOP with their base.


Getting out the vote is how we win in November.


Arguing our positions on issues is how we win in the future.



you cannot change someone's mind; they have to do it themselves.