Kids, don’t forget to log on to America’s first Twitter-hosted* town hall meeting. It takes place today at 2 p.m. Eastern time, and Twitter is going large by having Pres. Obama field questions and comments on how to get the economy going and how to put people back to work.
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) fired a preemptive shot with this tweet:
Republicans #askobama to outline plan #4jobs that doesn’t involve more spending, taxing, regulating http://j.mp/o1bpzE @townhall
Why is it Republicans feel the government should leave everything to the private sector except job creation, the one thing the private sector is best suited to provide? To Republicans, when employment is high, it’s because business is masterful. When employment is low, it’s because government is screwing up. I’m not in the right party to be able to follow this logic.
But to follow the town hall, search for @townhall and use the hashtag, as Speaker Boehner did, #askobama.
* Yes Buck, I know AP style says “host” is not a verb but Twitter itself is calling it that.
Holy crap. What is John Boehner’s plan #4jobs — period? Despite having won the House by duping independent voters into believing that they would focus like lasers on “jobs, jobs, jobs,” Boehner and his tea bagger mob have not debated, much less passed, a single bill that would create a single job.
Their only “plan” to create jobs is 1) prevent taxes from being raised on themselves and their corporate masters, that is, anyone who makes over $250k, as well as the closing of loopholes on corporate jets and corporate welfare for oil companies and the like, and 2) cut taxes for their corporate sponsors.
There are two non-debatable facts that apply here. When Clinton raised taxes on millionaires, the economy boomed and jobs were created. When Bush II cut their taxes, the economy sputtered and job creation ground to a halt.
The Republicans’ true objective is to hobble the economy, even if it destroys the livelihood of their constituents, in order to make Mitt Romney the next president of the United States.
Well you see Boehner & Co have been very busy since they took control of the house, they named a couple of courthouses and spent the rest of the time busting their britches trying to stop the economy from getting jobs – after all that might make Obama look good and they say they were elected to destroy him, it is just collateral damage that they will destroy the country too.