red states rule
06-05-2013, 03:52 AM
It seems the left wing op=ed writers at the Washington Compost are upset the R's have the gall to discuss the several Obama scandels
Seems one of the talking points is R's will "overreach" and spend too much time talking about the Obama "missteps"
Well I do not recall these same libs from telling Dems to stop pushing the R's "war on women" or the "culture of corruption"
The Republican party acts like it’s 1999
Now, after a long economic winter, green shoots are everywhere: The stock market is booming, housing prices are rebounding and mortgage providers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324744104578470821136050126.html), long demonized by Republicans, are returning profits to the Treasury (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/fannie-mae-to-pay-594b-to-treasury/2013/05/09/4271e9f8-b89f-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html). Job growth has accelerated and consumer confidence has reached its highest level (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-31/michigan-consumer-sentiment-index-climbed-to-84-5-in-may.html) in almost six years. Health-care cost increases are slowing, Medicare’s prospects are improving (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/medicare-trust-funds-life-extended-2-years-to-2026/2013/05/31/7efc7ca6-ca03-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.html) — in part because of President Obama’s health-care reforms — and gasoline prices are forecast to decline. Long-term fiscal problems remain, but the federal deficit is shrinking, putting off (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/higher-revenues-lower-spending-might-mean-debt-limit-breather/2013/04/25/837c0f94-adcf-11e2-8bf6-e70cb6ae066e_story.html) Washington’s debt-ceiling standoff until (http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/16/news/economy/debt-ceiling/index.html)late fall (http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/16/news/economy/debt-ceiling/index.html) .
Yet House Republicans have shelved a serious legislative agenda this year in favor of 24/7 investigations. On Tuesday morning alone, they held two hearings probing alleged wrongdoing in the Obama administration. At a House education committee hearing in the Rayburn building, several Republicans grilled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius over her fundraising for a nonprofit (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/10/budget-request-denied-sebelius-turns-to-health-executives-to-finance-obamacare/) that works to enroll people in new health-insurance programs. (Similar activities were undertaken by officials in the George W. Bush administration (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043001271.html).)
Next door in the Longworth building, the Ways and Means Committee hosted tea party groups complaining that their rights had been violated by the administration.
(Investigators have yet to find a link to the White House or to Obama’s political appointees.) Instead of working on tax reform, Ways and Means is one of three House committees holding hearings this week on the Internal Revenue Service abuses (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/06/04/five-and-counting-yet-another-irs-hearing/). This sounds like a lot — until you consider that five committees are reportedly investigating the administration’s handling of September’s attack on U.S. personnel in Benghazi, Libya.
A good indication of House Republicans’ mind-set came last week, when Rep. John Boehner’s spokesman wrote on the House speaker’s official blog (http://www.speaker.gov/general/stunning-student-loan-cynicism-white-house) that a speech by Obama on student loans was an attempt “to change the subject from its growing list of scandals.” It’s telling that the GOP leadership would view a student loan event as a distraction from scandals but wouldn’t see the obsession with scandals as a distraction from pocketbook issues
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-party-like-its-1999/2013/06/04/086bcb40-cd42-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html
Seems one of the talking points is R's will "overreach" and spend too much time talking about the Obama "missteps"
Well I do not recall these same libs from telling Dems to stop pushing the R's "war on women" or the "culture of corruption"
The Republican party acts like it’s 1999
Now, after a long economic winter, green shoots are everywhere: The stock market is booming, housing prices are rebounding and mortgage providers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324744104578470821136050126.html), long demonized by Republicans, are returning profits to the Treasury (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/fannie-mae-to-pay-594b-to-treasury/2013/05/09/4271e9f8-b89f-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html). Job growth has accelerated and consumer confidence has reached its highest level (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-31/michigan-consumer-sentiment-index-climbed-to-84-5-in-may.html) in almost six years. Health-care cost increases are slowing, Medicare’s prospects are improving (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/medicare-trust-funds-life-extended-2-years-to-2026/2013/05/31/7efc7ca6-ca03-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.html) — in part because of President Obama’s health-care reforms — and gasoline prices are forecast to decline. Long-term fiscal problems remain, but the federal deficit is shrinking, putting off (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/higher-revenues-lower-spending-might-mean-debt-limit-breather/2013/04/25/837c0f94-adcf-11e2-8bf6-e70cb6ae066e_story.html) Washington’s debt-ceiling standoff until (http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/16/news/economy/debt-ceiling/index.html)late fall (http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/16/news/economy/debt-ceiling/index.html) .
Yet House Republicans have shelved a serious legislative agenda this year in favor of 24/7 investigations. On Tuesday morning alone, they held two hearings probing alleged wrongdoing in the Obama administration. At a House education committee hearing in the Rayburn building, several Republicans grilled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius over her fundraising for a nonprofit (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/10/budget-request-denied-sebelius-turns-to-health-executives-to-finance-obamacare/) that works to enroll people in new health-insurance programs. (Similar activities were undertaken by officials in the George W. Bush administration (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043001271.html).)
Next door in the Longworth building, the Ways and Means Committee hosted tea party groups complaining that their rights had been violated by the administration.
(Investigators have yet to find a link to the White House or to Obama’s political appointees.) Instead of working on tax reform, Ways and Means is one of three House committees holding hearings this week on the Internal Revenue Service abuses (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/06/04/five-and-counting-yet-another-irs-hearing/). This sounds like a lot — until you consider that five committees are reportedly investigating the administration’s handling of September’s attack on U.S. personnel in Benghazi, Libya.
A good indication of House Republicans’ mind-set came last week, when Rep. John Boehner’s spokesman wrote on the House speaker’s official blog (http://www.speaker.gov/general/stunning-student-loan-cynicism-white-house) that a speech by Obama on student loans was an attempt “to change the subject from its growing list of scandals.” It’s telling that the GOP leadership would view a student loan event as a distraction from scandals but wouldn’t see the obsession with scandals as a distraction from pocketbook issues
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-party-like-its-1999/2013/06/04/086bcb40-cd42-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html