Where are the jobs, Mr. Boehner? You stood on the House floor in 2010 and hollered, "where are the Jobs, Mr President"? I saw dozens of clips of Republicans and tea partiers asking the same. What have you done about jobs? Nothing. You made a big deal about jobs and yet you have done nothing. Here is what you did last week, Mr. Speaker. You had "ABORTION DAY" in the House of Representatives for the seventh time this year but you have not offered one jobs bill. Seven abortion related votes in nine months and not one single jobs bill. Seven attacks on women's health and rights and zero jobs bills. On Thursday your House voted to allow a hospital emergency room to turn away a pregnant woman who might be hemorrhaging or miscarrying. Anything to save a fetus. It's those religious conservatives — endlessly playing "Christian Jihad in America". Again, the Party of Death has struck with its latest, the "Let Women Die" law.
I don't remember the tea party campaigning on social issues in 2010 but intruding on people's liberties seems to be the driving obsession now. From the bowels of the Trojan Horse of the Tea Party's economic message have come Christian jihadists that have targeted women's health clinics, reproductive rights, and gay rights. Good examples of these deceivers are found right here in N.H. How's that less government intrusion workin' out for ya? They want to shove their religion down your throats and use the government to do so.
And did any of the GOP candidates run on union busting or passing restrictive new voting laws? Nope! Stifling your wages and making it harder to vote are what the right wing seeks. They want you impotent. When legislators bust unions, it is an intrusion designed to weaken working class Americans and strengthen the right wing aristocracy. Right wing corporatism is the road to serfdom because they seek to atomize and neuter Americans, making each of us separated, vulnerable, with no voice.
We hear tea partiers claiming they want less government intrusion but as shown above, they are lying. When lawmakers attack reproductive freedom, they intrude into the personal lives and medical decisions of women and their families. When lawmakers attack gay rights, they attack liberty, justice and equality. Just as Islamists do, they inject religion to support their bigotry. Guess who was in N.H. this last week to fight gay rights? The Ayatollah Tony Perkins!
Fiscally, the tea party's fiscal agenda is on its death bed. In most of the polls, Tea Party approval ranges from 20 to 28-percent with disapproval ranging up to 53-percent. On cutting Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid to fix the economy, a large majority emphatically say "NO". On raising taxes on the upper earners and closing tax loopholes on corporations, a strong majority say "GO FOR IT!" The modest hikes proposed would return us to the tax rates of the Clinton era, a time when America prospered greatly. But because the right is so blindly possessed by their naive yet miserly von Mises dogma, its still unacceptable. They ignore the higher taxes and Keynesian strategies of the 1950s and the 1990s when America shined economically. Cutting social programs in order to give tax breaks to those who don't need them is DOA.
The Tea party has fallen and it can't get up. In a recent study done by authors David Campbell and Robert Putnam (see http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/opinion/crashing-the-tea-party.html?_r=2&ref=teapartymovement ) the Tea Party and Sarah Palin were the bottom two in a list of groups or persons according to their approval. Atheists and Muslims did better than both the tea party and Palin. That's really funny.
