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Ten
Reasons Why Even American Liberals
Should Root for the GOP
By Larry Elder
7/14/2011
1)
Incredibly weak recovery: President
Barack Obama’s tax/spend/regulation policy -- “stimulus”; continuation
of TARP;
bank, insurance company and auto industry bailouts; “quantitative
easing” (aka
the printing of money); cash for clunkers; minimum wage hikes; new
regulatory
rules on businesses; tripling of the deficit; addition of $4 trillion
to the
debt -- failed miserably to produce jobs and grow the economy at the
historical
rate expected after a deep recession.
2)
ObamaCare: President Barack Obama
promised it would “bend the cost curve” and that “if you like your
doctor, you
will be able to keep your doctor. If you like your health care plan,
you will
be able to keep your health care plan.” The chief Medicare actuary said
neither
of those claims is true. Two-thirds of doctors believe that ObamaCare
will
lower the quality of health care.
3)
Bogus Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission:
Comprised of six Democrats and four Republicans, the commission issued
a
majority report (with the Republicans dissenting) that blamed Wall
Street
greed. “Reckless Endangerment,” a new book on the financial crisis
co-authored
by a New York Times columnist/business and financial editor, blames the
central
role played by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as government policy
that
pressured banks into relaxing lending standards so that the
“underrepresented”
could buy homes they could not afford.
One
of the FCIC’s commissioners and
its chief investigator both work for a major law firm that is suing a
number of
Wall Street players. The two stand to benefit financially from the
commission’s
Wall-Street-is-the-bad-guy conclusion. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., who
recommended
a commissioner in question, now claims he was unaware of his tie to the
law
firm. The commission chairman, Democrat Phil Angelides -- who received
$225,000
in campaign donations from the same law firm -- works for an offshore
hedge fund
that shorted mortgage-backed securities just before the crisis.
4)
Texas justice vs. “Viva Mexico”:
The Obama administration unsuccessfully filed a court action to stop
Texas’
planned execution of a Mexican illegal alien found guilty of brutally
raping, torturing
and murdering a 16-year-old girl. The U.S. Justice Department argued
that as an
illegal alien the accused should have been advised that he had a right
to go to
the Mexican consultant to obtain an attorney. Since the accused didn’t
reveal
he was an illegal alien when arrested, the Obama administration sued
Texas for
not asking the accused about his status. Texas executed the
rapist/murderer,
who right before the lethal injection, reportedly shouted, “Viva
Mexico.”
Meanwhile, the administration obtained an injunction against Arizona to
prevent
law enforcement, during a lawful stop, from inquiring about legal
status.
5)
Libya: Against the advice of the
top lawyer in the Pentagon and the State Department, Obama ignored the
War
Powers Resolution and authorized a military mission in Libya without
congressional approval.
6)
Left-wing judicial appointments: An
Obama re-election could mean one or more additional liberal Supreme
Court
justices, ensuring that the “living, breathing document” view of the
Constitution
will apply to critical issues like gay marriage, the Second Amendment
and the
legality of ObamaCare.
7)
Boeing vs. the National Labor
Relations Board: In a recent press conference, Obama falsely called
this a
matter of Boeing “relocating” and “shutting down a plant or laying off
workers
because labor and management can’t come to a sensible agreement.” No,
Boeing
constructed a new facility in South Carolina with no related job losses
at
Boeing’s home state of Washington. In fact, Boeing has been adding jobs
in
Washington. Here’s the question: Can Boeing, subject to four costly
strikes
since 1989 in the non-right-to-work state of Washington, build a
facility where
it wishes?
8)
The Obama-Loving Media Protective
League: Consider two issues that would have generated huge and
continuing
headlines were a Republican in the White House. Obama promised to
diminish the
influence of lobbyists, so members of his administration hold meetings
off
White House premises where they do not show up on White House logs.
After
promising “the most transparent administration in history,” the
secrets-obsessed Obama administration has issued more subpoenas of
reporters’
phone records and other information than did the Bush administration in
eight
years.
9)
Democrats’ race cards: DNC Chair
Debbie Wasserman Schultz calls the GOP anti-woman and anti-gay, and
says it
wants to “drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws.” Democrats -- from
former
presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter to Sen. Reid -- routinely
attack
Republicans by whipping out the race card.
10)
Anti-voucher for urban schools:
The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program gave vouchers so that parents
could
choose the school for their children. The Department of Education hired
an
outside evaluator, who called it a success -- it improved reading
scores and,
most importantly, increased graduation rates from 70 percent to 82
percent.
Despite the popularity of vouchers among Hispanic and black urban
parents,
Obama and the Democrats oppose them, and the D.C. program was canned.
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