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Related: About this forumObama Win! Conservatives starting to cave and agree on jobs with Democrats
I bring good news this new year! Conservatives have a jobs agenda, one that isnt built around merely cutting taxes and regulations and getting the government out of the way so the free market can strut its stuff.
The GOPs Jobs Hypocrisy
by Michael TomaskyJan 3, 2014 5:45 am EST
Conservatives are suddenly hot on measures that Democrats have been touting for years. So why cant they cant acknowledge their own party is the biggest obstacle?
Nothis includes are you ready? infrastructure investment, and a monetary policy less obsessed with keeping inflation under 2 percent. Its new, its exhilarating, its brilliant! And its the same stuff that Barack Obama and most liberal Democrats have favored for years.
When David Frum, whom I respect a great deal, tweets that a new article should be thought of as a 95 theses moment for the reformist right, he gets my attention. So I clicked immediately and read through A Jobs Agenda for the Right, by Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute, from the new issue of National Affairs. I liked the essay and even agreed with a respectable percentage of what Strain had to say. But reading it was far more infuriating than reading something by a conservative and disagreeing with every syllable, because articles like Strains refuse to acknowledge, let alone try to grapple with, the central and indisputable fact that the contemporary Republican Partyhis presumed vehicle for all this pro-jobs reformhas opposed many of these initiatives tooth and nail.
The first big measure Strain touts in his essay is infrastructure. Anyone who has driven on a highway in Missouri or has taken an escalator in a Washington, D.C., Metro station knows that the United States could use some infrastructure investment, he writes. He doesnt lay out a specific program, but clearly he favors fairly broad public investment.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/03/the-gop-s-jobs-hypocrisy.html
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Obama Win! Conservatives starting to cave and agree on jobs with Democrats (Original Post)
UCmeNdc
Jan 2014
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elleng
(130,913 posts)1. Fine for these guys.
What about congresstwerps?
msongs
(67,406 posts)2. dems don't have jobs bill, good chance for repubs to steal the agenda again nt
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)3. The Dems did have this same jobs agenda and push for these things
The Democratic Party has been pushing for these jobs producing goals for the past four years.
seabeckind
(1,957 posts)5. I seem to remember a campaign
in naught 8 where democrats talked about the thousands of factories that closed in the previous administration and promised to do something about it.
But then the meanie old republicans said no. So the democrats got very, very quiet.
I'll believe it when I see it.
imthevicar
(811 posts)6. HA HA HA
They simply see the Guillotines coming down the road towards them with their names on them.
Here's a clue, The wealthy will cave too if they see the Guillotines coming and their Peace keepers fold. Like they did in Italy!