Present-Day Republican Rage Pre-Dates the Tea Party

[The Infidel]

Asher Smith: Present-Day Republican Rage Pre-Dates the Tea Party

For Democrats, at least, Republican rage is the gift that keeps on giving.

At a fundraiser in San Jose last Sunday, President Obama drew applause by highlighting Republican debate-goers: "Has anybody been watching the debates lately? You've got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change. It's true. You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay."

On Monday, the DNC followed suit, releasing a video of GOP crowds cheering for capital punishment, screaming that a hypothetical uninsured man should die and booing a gay soldier serving in Iraq. The minute-long video closed by pointing out that "not one Republican candidate... spoke up to admonish the crowd and call for civility."

But as the media picks up on this narrative, they largely overlook the fact that these are not isolated incidents of extemporaneous spleen-venting. True, it may have been during a Tea Party-sponsored debate that audience members stole the spotlight by chiming in on society's responsibility to the uninsured. But this outpouring of conservative rage should not exclusively be read, in the words of Harvard professor Theda Skocpol, as "characteristic of many tea party Republicans." Though it contradicts the Tea Party-focused narrative that has dominated interpretations of the present state of the GOP, this phenomenon pre-dates Rick Santelli's trading floor rant, health-care reform and Glenn Beck.

Yep, pretty much the truth.

What a bunch of bullshit..... Yep, pretty much the truth.

 

[kiwiman127]

How many jobs has Obama created, asswipe?

More in one year than Bush created in 8 years.

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Hey. Google is your friend.

For most of Bush's time in office UE was at 6%. He didn't need to create jobs. Most everyone who wanted a job had it. Hell. I had two.
The final year it was at 7%.

Way better than Barry's 9.2% doncha think??

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I know Unemployment numbers can be made to look pretty, but the Unemployment Rate doesn't include the entire national workforce. But the Labor Participation Rate does.
Saying that "Most everyone who wanted a job had it" isn't an accurate statement.
In January 2001, the Unemployment Rate was 4.2 and the unemployment rate in January 2007 was 4.6. Now look at the Labor Participation for both of those periods and note the discrepancy when comparing the Unemployment Rate. Please note the huge difference. The recovery from Clinton's recession was basically a jobless recovery.

 

[Bfgrn]

How many jobs has Obama created, asswipe?

More in one year than Bush created in 8 years.

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Big fat LIE!!!

Congressional Budget Office, which estimates the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the stimulus bill, "increased the number of people employed by between 1.4 million and 3.3 million" in the second quarter of 2010 alone.

Aughts were a lost decade for U.S. economy, workers

For most of the past 70 years, the U.S. economy has grown at a steady clip, generating perpetually higher incomes and wealth for American households. But since 2000, the story is starkly different.

The past decade was the worst for the U.S. economy in modern times, a sharp reversal from a long period of prosperity that is leading economists and policymakers to fundamentally rethink the underpinnings of the nation's growth.

It was, according to a wide range of data, a lost decade for American workers. The decade began in a moment of triumphalism -- there was a current of thought among economists in 1999 that recessions were a thing of the past. By the end, there were two, bookends to a debt-driven expansion that was neither robust nor sustainable.

There has been zero net job creation since December 1999. No previous decade going back to the 1940s had job growth of less than 20 percent. Economic output rose at its slowest rate of any decade since the 1930s as well.

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