BEWARE: IT’S ALREADY PILING “HIGH & DEEP” FROM THE FAR RIGHT “WING-NUTS”

…Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC), one of the key GOP Wing-Nut Hawks

 

A bogus “Bill of Goods” from the GOP for 2016 is already being widely distributed.

Yep, it’s already started. 

If you are against adding American “boots-on-the-ground” in Iraq & Syria; going to war with Iran, and being the world’s police force in Nigeria; then you’d better get ready for the hawkish rhetoric coming from the potential GOP presidential candidates in wanting more of Americas military to be spread all over the middle east and western Africa.

We’re already hearing how the conservatives are saying the US should take responsibility for the 200,000 killed in Syria, (including 10,000 children), the rise of ISIL in Syria & Iraq, that nuclear proliferation in Iran isn’t being resolved fast enough, and of course, that even though 60% of all Americans approve, the move on the latest decision regarding Cuba was totally misplaced.

According to the far right, the issues in Syria will eventually become “Obama’s Rwanda”, referencing  to all the massacres that happened in that country in 1994.

So, according to the right, “It’s all Obama’s fault, and he has been the worst president in 50 years.”

Really?

Apparently we are supposed to ignore that President Obama has been trying to have America lead a version of “global progress and basic social order”, and to do it at the least cost to the American taxpayer.  All this, while allowing the nation to focus on fixing our internal issues.  The same negatives issues and national crisis that was initially created under the previous eight years of the Bush / Cheney stewardship.

Even though the opposition has totally ignored the real results, it’s hard not to admit that under the Obama’s administration, they have delivered new jobs in spite of the Republican’s attempted interventions.  In addition, the stock market has gone ballistic, gasoline prices are at record low levels, the nation is today the largest supplier of oil and natural gas as well as that of wind and solar power.  We are no longer totally supporting two wars in the middle east, the unemployment rate has continued to improve and the Affordable Care Act is working better than anyone had imagined.

Even a conservative writer in the Washington Post had to admit, “[The] Republicans opposed every useful policy advance and now [they] want to kill the ones they didn’t manage to strangle at birth.”

I couldn’t have said that any better.

The president has now claimed that “middle-class economics works”.  As much as the opposition would love to claim that Obama’s economy is the ideological extension of Elizabeth Warren’s liberal ideas, the reality is, like it or not, Obama can also take credit for Wall Street’s astounding success.  Something that Senator Warren would never take credit for, and she wouldn’t want to anyway.

Contrary to popular belief, even though they won’t outwardly admit it, as is Obama, many Republicans are open to raising additional revenue from the wealthy.  But for them, it must only come from closing tax loopholes.  In reality, as with Obama, GOP leaders would probably accept the limiting of the mortgage deduction for a second home, but they won’t support additional taxes on any savings and investments.

Obama’s ideas, as stated in his State of the Union speech, such as increasing the child-care tax credit, providing additional help to make community college affordable and paid maternity leave.  These are classic Democratic ideas, not blazing or boldly progressive ideas. They are middle-sized proposals that address middle-class needs. They can be faulted for poor design or the manner in which they are funded, but they have none of the ideological ambition of the Affordable Care Act, or even Obama’s plan for universal preschool education.

If there is a major hole in the Obama approach to America’s economy, it is that the condition of middle-class families during the Obama years, when measured by net worth, real wages, business and home ownership, these have all gotten worse.

The key Republicans that are potential 2016 presidential candidates including Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Chris Christie and Rand Paul, they are all very aware of this negative issue and are finally talking about it.  But this does appear highly disingenuous, as it’s totally the opposite of their attitude against the so called “dependent 47% of Americans” that they were campaigning against in the 2012 election.

But, today they are accurately pointing out that the condition of middle-class families during the Obama years has not been helped in these areas for many of the American middle class.

Republicans now do have a real case to make for their own version of middle-class economics. 

But will the average American worker see that most of what the conservatives are saying is just a bunch of bogus “talking points” when you seriously look at what they want to offer middle class Americans?

 

In fact, just what are they offering up for the middle class?

I guess for 2016, we can only hope that America’s voters will see the real truth.

Copyright G.Ater  2015