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Republicans will do anything, including short-circuiting the economy, in order to hurt Obama politically.
Considering that presidents – and rarely opposition parties – are held electorally responsible for economic calamity, it's not a bad political strategy.
Republicans have opposed stimulus measures that once they supported, such as a payroll tax break...
Even unemployment insurance, a relatively uncontroversial tool for helping those in an economic downturn, has been consistently held up by Republicans or used as a bargaining chip for more tax cuts.
Traditionally, during economic recessions, Republicans have been supportive of loose monetary policy.
Not this time. Rather, Republicans have upbraided Ben Bernanke, head of the Federal Reserve...
Republicans have made practically no effort to draft comprehensive job creation legislation.
Instead, they continue to pursue austerity policies, which reams of historical data suggest harms economic recovery and does little to create jobs.
In fact, since taking control of the House of Representatives in 2011, Republicans have proposed hardly a single major jobs bill that didn't revolve, in some way, around their one-stop solution for all the nation's economic problems: more tax cuts.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/09/did-republicans-deliberately-crash-us-economy
Considering that presidents – and rarely opposition parties – are held electorally responsible for economic calamity, it's not a bad political strategy.
Republicans have opposed stimulus measures that once they supported, such as a payroll tax break...
Even unemployment insurance, a relatively uncontroversial tool for helping those in an economic downturn, has been consistently held up by Republicans or used as a bargaining chip for more tax cuts.
Traditionally, during economic recessions, Republicans have been supportive of loose monetary policy.
Not this time. Rather, Republicans have upbraided Ben Bernanke, head of the Federal Reserve...
Republicans have made practically no effort to draft comprehensive job creation legislation.
Instead, they continue to pursue austerity policies, which reams of historical data suggest harms economic recovery and does little to create jobs.
In fact, since taking control of the House of Representatives in 2011, Republicans have proposed hardly a single major jobs bill that didn't revolve, in some way, around their one-stop solution for all the nation's economic problems: more tax cuts.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/09/did-republicans-deliberately-crash-us-economy
