Whether they realize it or not, the majority of Teapublicans actually agree with us.

[mloutre]

As Greg Sargent reported yesterday in his Washington Post blog,

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Needless to say, many polls have already shown that Republicans overwhelmingly disapprove of Obama on the economy and overwhelmingly oppose the American Jobs Act.

But when Gallup asked about the provisions within the jobs bill, Republicans and Republican leaners supported them — even though the question mentioned Obama’s name:

* Fifty-six percent of of Republicans and GOP leaners support providing additional funds to hire public employees.

* Fifty-three percent of Republicans and GOP-leaners support increasing taxes on corporations by eliminating some deductions (which GOP leaders have derided as “class warfare”).

* Fifty percent of Republicans and GOP leaners support providing additional funds for public works projects, including school repair.

* Eighty four percent of Republicans and GOP leaners support providing tax cuts for small businesses, including hiring incentives.

Republicans do oppose extending unemployment insurance and raising taxes on wealthy individuals. Unsurprisingly, the proposal that gets far and away the most Republican support are the tax cuts. But the spending proposals, and the elimination of corporate loopholes, have Republican support, too. As Gallup put it: “at least half of Republicans favor four of the six proposals tested.”

Also: Forty percent of Republicans think the overall bill would help create jobs.

Needless to say, these findings won’t matter at all in the real world, and won’t do a thing to make passage of Obama’s bill more likely. But they neatly underscore the fact that these proposals aren’t controversial in the least — and suggest that they should be enjoying bipartisan support in the alternate universe otherwise known as the United States Congress.

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So the big question for us here, then, is:

How the hell do we convince them to vote based on what they actually *do* know, rather than on what the Teapublicans just tell them they *think* they know?

[arcane1]

1. The magic of propaganda

These are, after all, the same fools who defended Medicare against government-run health insurance, totally unaware of how stupid they looked.

[Solomon]

2. Your post cuts two ways.

Lots of people here agree with the tea party that Obama hasn't done shit and doesn't deserve a second term.

[pnorman]

4. no, the Trabaggers say that Obama has done way too much!

n/t

[Hippo_Tron]

3. This is the question Democrats have been asking for the last 30 years

I promise you that if there was a simple answer, somebody would've done it already...

[bvar22]

5. I wany My Country back too!

In the country I lived grew up in,
a single, non-college educated, blue collar parent could:

*Find & keep a decent job with benefits

*Raise several children in relative comfort

*Buy and Pay Off a decent home in the suburbs

*Buy a new American made car every several years

*Take a REAL traveling vacation every year

*Provide quality health care for the whole family

*Save enough to retire in dignity and comfort

*Send the children to decent schools

In THAT country, anyone could attend the State University
and graduate DEBT FREE if willing to work Part Time.

In THAT country, a parent could honestly promise his/her children that they could do better
if they studied hard and stayed out of trouble.

In THAT country, things WERE getting BETTER, not worse.
There were some problems with inequality,
but we were solving them and moving forward.

In THAT country, most people WERE moving upwards in SES,
not falling into poverty.

I would like THAT country back,
and if we had a Political Party that represented The Working Class & The Poor,
we could have it back.


You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

Solidarity!
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