Note:
The Republican Party did all it could to wreck the
economy from 2010-2012 in a failed attempt to regain
the White House. As a result, they have completely
abandoned any appearance of being job creators and
have returned to garnering the support of morons by
pushing emotional buttons on issues such as abortion,
gays, and guns. Therefore, I will no longer be updating
this site but it will yet remain in all its snarky,
pristine glory as a monument to the most useless, hypocritical,
and unAmerican Congress this country has ever had to
endure.
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During
the 2010 mid-terms the GOP campaigned fiercely on the
platform of job creation and, as a result of such promises,
the GOP gained the majority in the House of Representatives.
As new
Speaker
of
the House,
John Boehner
made
the
welcome claim that the primary goal of the Republican
Party was to increase employment in the U.S.
His exact
words were: "We're going to have a relentless focus on
creating jobs."
Those were welcome words, except that a week before
the 2010 elections Republican Senator Mitch McConnell
revealed the GOP's true intent: "The single
most important thing we want to achieve is for President
Obama to
be a one-term
president."
What you'll find on this site is primarily a list
of legislation by the GOP-led House of Representatives beginning
2-10-2011, a list which I began purely for my own amusement.
The list will soon begin its third year without
one anecdotal
citation
of
new employment as a result of Republican legislation. That it has
reached
its
current imposing length is simply
shocking. Shame on these useless hypocrites.
There are those who choose to place the blame for the relatively
high rate of unemployment on Mr. Obama's shoulders, but keep in
mind that it is the House
which both enacts
legislation
and
controls the governmental purse-strings, not the President. The
American Recovery and Investment Act passed by the Democrats in
2009 no doubt aided the economy but it would have been more effective
if the GOP
hadn't
limited
much
of it to
little more
than tax breaks for the rich.
Update 11-7-2012: Although the GOP kept unemployment
high enough to ensure that the president would, under normal circumstances,
lose his reelection bid enough progressive voters saw through the
Republican Party's dismal scheme
and gave
Mr. Obama a second term. Unfortunately, as a result of rampant
gerymandering in conservative-led states, the GOP still retains
control of the House. Will they choose country over
party this session?
Time will tell (but I have a feeling time won't be happy.)
Summary: So how "Do-nothing" was the
2011-12 Congress? Record-breaking bad:
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