If Obama gets his “payroll tax cut” extended for the full year, he will tell Americans that HE, the all-wonderful and benevolent one, has put more money into their pockets despite stiff resistance from the Republicans who hate the middle class but love the rich and the oil companies.
It’s pure election year politics, and will do nothing to stimulate job creation or the economy. The whole thing is designed to get votes, pure and simple.
“It’s pure election year politics, and will do nothing to stimulate job creation or the economy. The whole thing is designed to get votes, pure and simple.”
Exactly. Where the GOP is failing miserably is playing all these small ball games with Barry and letting him lead them from one “crisis” to the next. It totally lets the dims off the hook from the fact that they have no serious overall plan for the economy. No budget, trillion dollar deficits, union payoffs, etc.
We need to spotlight their refusal to govern responsibly but McConnell and Boehner are so busy tip toeing to 2012 that it never gets publicized.