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Who is the GOP talking to?

Last month, Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX), echoing talking points released by the House Republican Study Committee, apologized to BP for its ill-treatment at the hands of the Obama administration, calling the establishment of the $20 million trust fund set up to help Gulf residents affected by BP’s massive oil spill a “shakedown” and the trust itself an administration “slush fund.”

A couple weeks later, in an interview with The Tribune-Review, House Minority Leader John Boehner, speaking in opposition to pending legislation that would place new regulations on Wall Street  would to prevent another economic meltdown like the one that landed us in the current recession, referred to said meltdown as “an ant,” insisting that we didn’t need the “nuclear weapon” of new regulations to address it.

And in their most recent stand against the welfare of the American public, one echoed by our own Attorney General, GOP candidate gubernatorial Tom Corbett, Republicans are lining up to oppose the extension of benefits to those who’ve been unfortunate enough to find themselves unemployed long-term in this economic downturn, insisting, as did AG Corbett just last week, that unemployed Americans have become “spoiled” by these government entitlements and are just sitting back, collecting their checks until the benefits run out, at which point these apparently lazy folks will finally get off of their keesters and go and look for a job.

The pool of CEO and corporate board member votes is rather small, which begs the question: Who in the world are these guys talking to?!

July 20, 2010 at 10:38 am

--Tammy Alonso

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