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The GOP leadership use Obama as a "fear whip" to garner support from a terrified base.
For some reason, the GOP base has been made to believe that if it's good for the uber wealthy, it's good for the country. The deficit creating Bush tax cuts were the first step in the redistribution of the wealth of the nation to the top 1%.
Moving millions of jobs to China and closing tens of thousands of factories here were not a problem because of the incredible wealth it added to the fortune of the top 1%. There is no way the GOP base would have supported a "pioneer of outsourcing" for president without the opponent being Barrack Obama.
Imagine Republicans fighting to keep health care from millions of Americans. We know insurance policies that were cancelled didn't meet any type of minimum requirement. Some Republicans right here on the USMB swear there is no insurance policy that doesn't include hospital and when previous links proved the existence of such terrible insurance policies that were indeed cheap, but only allowed 3 or 4 doctor visits a year and a couple of blood tests at a hospital, possibly an X-ray or a mammogram, they would deny it.
Look at Republicans today who support Social Security and Medicare. They wouldn't support it if it were called "Social Obamasecurity" or "Obamamedicare" no matter how much they depended on it.
The Republican leadership wouldn't be able to get much support for cutting school lunches or food stamps for poor children and disabled veterans if they didn't have president Obama to use as the "boogeyman".
Imagine Republicans cutting unemployment benefits for millions of Americans and leaving them out to dry if there was no Obama. It wouldn't be possible.
Obama is only going to be president for a few more years. By that time, Republicans will be firmly tied to every one of these policies. They may have been able to tie Obama to some of their disasters because the GOP base is looking for any reason, no matter how tenuous, to hate Obama.
Some Republicans feel that it was Obama who started the wars in the Middle East. That it was Republicans who took out Bin Laden and Obama had nothing to do with it. That people died after Katrina because Obama was slow to send aid.
The will say that Obama extended the Bush Tax cuts ignoring the fact that Republicans threatened to cut unemployment benefits for 7 million Americans if he didn't.
Look at how they insist it was Obama who shut down the government, even when the GOP leadership was "taking the credit".
Look at the GOP leadership saying they got 98% of everything they wanted but the downgrade was Obama's fault.
Without Obama, the GOP leadership would never be able to make such ridiculous and outrageous statements.
And look at the recent Ryan budget. Over 5 trillion in cuts with almost 70% of those cuts being programs that help the middle class and the poor. Look at the Republican farmers in congress getting hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in subsidies because they own a farm while voting to cut food stamps for poor children and disabled veterans. Without Obama, Republicans would never get support for these odious policies.
When the next presidential election comes along, Republicans will be stuck with and on record for every one of these terrible policies. And there will be no Barrack Hussein Obama to run against. I think it's going to be a pretty exciting election.
For some reason, the GOP base has been made to believe that if it's good for the uber wealthy, it's good for the country. The deficit creating Bush tax cuts were the first step in the redistribution of the wealth of the nation to the top 1%.
Moving millions of jobs to China and closing tens of thousands of factories here were not a problem because of the incredible wealth it added to the fortune of the top 1%. There is no way the GOP base would have supported a "pioneer of outsourcing" for president without the opponent being Barrack Obama.
Imagine Republicans fighting to keep health care from millions of Americans. We know insurance policies that were cancelled didn't meet any type of minimum requirement. Some Republicans right here on the USMB swear there is no insurance policy that doesn't include hospital and when previous links proved the existence of such terrible insurance policies that were indeed cheap, but only allowed 3 or 4 doctor visits a year and a couple of blood tests at a hospital, possibly an X-ray or a mammogram, they would deny it.
Look at Republicans today who support Social Security and Medicare. They wouldn't support it if it were called "Social Obamasecurity" or "Obamamedicare" no matter how much they depended on it.
The Republican leadership wouldn't be able to get much support for cutting school lunches or food stamps for poor children and disabled veterans if they didn't have president Obama to use as the "boogeyman".
Imagine Republicans cutting unemployment benefits for millions of Americans and leaving them out to dry if there was no Obama. It wouldn't be possible.
Obama is only going to be president for a few more years. By that time, Republicans will be firmly tied to every one of these policies. They may have been able to tie Obama to some of their disasters because the GOP base is looking for any reason, no matter how tenuous, to hate Obama.
Some Republicans feel that it was Obama who started the wars in the Middle East. That it was Republicans who took out Bin Laden and Obama had nothing to do with it. That people died after Katrina because Obama was slow to send aid.
The will say that Obama extended the Bush Tax cuts ignoring the fact that Republicans threatened to cut unemployment benefits for 7 million Americans if he didn't.
Look at how they insist it was Obama who shut down the government, even when the GOP leadership was "taking the credit".
Look at the GOP leadership saying they got 98% of everything they wanted but the downgrade was Obama's fault.
Without Obama, the GOP leadership would never be able to make such ridiculous and outrageous statements.
And look at the recent Ryan budget. Over 5 trillion in cuts with almost 70% of those cuts being programs that help the middle class and the poor. Look at the Republican farmers in congress getting hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in subsidies because they own a farm while voting to cut food stamps for poor children and disabled veterans. Without Obama, Republicans would never get support for these odious policies.
When the next presidential election comes along, Republicans will be stuck with and on record for every one of these terrible policies. And there will be no Barrack Hussein Obama to run against. I think it's going to be a pretty exciting election.
