Sabotaging The Economy: Cynicism Or Reality?

[Avant Guardian]

This article is written by a conservative that supports Obama, so don't freak out about the source.

http://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/sabotaging-the-economy-cynicism-or-reality/

The opening segment of last night’s The Rachel Maddow Show was over sixteen minutes long. It was one of those rare moments in cable television in which a lot was said that needed to be said and it was said by two very smart liberal commentators, St. Rachel and Chris Hayes, Washington editor of The Nation magazine.

Pay-Go legislation, the bi-partisan deficit commission, cap and trade, the individual mandate for health insurance, trying terrorists in federal courts, raising the debt ceiling (done seven times under Bush with substantial Republican votes), a payroll tax holiday for businesses and workers, and the DREAM Act.

Toward the end of the segment, St. Rachel offered two competing explanations for such blatant and shameful duplicity:

The nice interpretation of Republican hypocrisy: Republicans are merely opposing things they use to support because President Obama supports them too.

The less nice interpretation of Republican hypocrisy: Republicans are opposing things they use to support because they believe those things will actually work and will improve the economy and thus improve Obama’s chances of reelection. Therefore, they are sabotaging the economic recovery.

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[mrdmk]

1. Ouch!!!

From OP:

"The less nice interpretation of Republican hypocrisy: Republicans are opposing things they use to support because they believe those things will actually work and will improve the economy and thus improve Obama’s chances of reelection. Therefore, they are sabotaging the economic recovery."

[FrenchieCat]

2. I saw that segment.......

so much truth incapsuled into those minutes!
What if our media throughout actually reported
like Rachel does? Perhaps then we could save ourselves!