We're coming for you all on Nov 2.
Posted on 10/26/2010 4:19:43 AM PDT by suspects
If I asked you to describe the performance of the Pelosi Congress in three words - three family-friendly words, that is - what would they be? “Corrupt and incompetent?” “Arrogant and inept?” Maybe “dazed and confused?”
The Boston Globe-Democrat’s three words? “Record of Accomplishment.” And here’s the scary part: I think they mean it.
Knowing the Globe, I wasn’t surprised that they endorsed every Democrat for Congress. After all, they haven’t endorsed a single Republican in a congressional general election this century.
But if you want to see how lost the left has gotten in its own fantasies, the Globe-Democrat’s editorial touting their “record of accomplishment” is an Alice in Wonderland experience.
The $1 trillion stimulus? Worked great! “The quickest way to reduce unemployment,” wrote the Globies of a bill passed when unemployment was 8.1 percent, but is now 9.6 percent. We’ve lost jobs four months in a row, nearly two years after the “stimulus.”
Worse, Americans are still filing 450,000-plus jobless claims a week, and Massachusetts just had the biggest one-month job loss in years.
Obamacare? Terrific! “In no way responsible for the economic woes burdening today’s voters,” says the Globe-Democrat. Reality, alas, says something else. As National Review points out this week, “Premiums are up, insurers are dropping coverage for Medicare Advantage recipients, companies are abandoning their workers’ coverage - and the voters, particularly the elderly, are unmollified.”
Worse, would-be employers are telling anyone who will listen (a group that clearly doesn’t include Globe editorial writers) that the uncertainty of Obamacare and its costs is keeping them from hiring.
Congress promised Obamacare would not add to the deficit, that it would “bend the cost curve down” and we would be able to keep our current coverage. This plan - backed by...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
WE ARE BROKE
DEAF TO AMERICA
Dumb and Dumber
I believe that after Nov. 2 the biggest accomplishment of the Pelosi reign will be the turnover of Congress to the republicans.
While "sucks" and "donkey" might pass muster, I'll have to leave the third one to your imagination...
We're coming for you all on Nov 2.
Should Be Imprisoned
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