Remember, the GOP strategy clearly is:
- Oppose anything Obama supports, even GOP ideas (e.g. individual mandate, tax reform, etc)
- Say with complete confidence that any tax increases are job-killing, despite the complete lack of evidence
- Talk endlessly about the deficit, even though cuts will slow an already slow economy
- Blame Obama then for the lack of new jobs, even though the GOP won't allow any bill to stimulate jobs
- Blame Obama for creating "an atmosphere of business uncertainty", but completely ignore GOP efforts that undermine business certainty to a much greater degree (invented debt ceiling crisis)
- If anything bad happens in the economy because of GOP actions, remember it's "Obama's fault"
- Ignore any pangs of guilt from your extreme hypocrisy and lack of intellectual integrity
- Put party power over the good of the country, as GOP power is more important than 8 million unemployed people, most of whom won't vote GOP anyway
- And finally, never answer the question, "What's the opposite of country first?"
But today there are voices in the GOP questioning the strategy...uh oh...
Many right-leaning policy voices think the economy needs more short-term stimulus, reports Jackie Calmes: "The boasts of Congressional Republicans about their cost-cutting victories are ringing hollow to some well-known economists, financial analysts and corporate leaders, including some Republicans, who are expressing increasing alarm over Washington’s new austerity and antitax orthodoxy...Among those calling for a mix of cuts and revenue are onetime standard-bearers of Republican economic philosophy like Martin Feldstein, an adviser to President Ronald Reagan, and Henry M. Paulson Jr., Treasury secretary to President George W. Bush, underscoring the deepening divide between party establishment figures and the Tea Party-inspired Republicans in Congress and running for the White House."
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