“This election the American people said enough is enough. That message was loud and clear. We Republicans would be mistaken if we misread these results as simply an embrace of the Republican party. This Election is a second chance. A second chance for Republicans to be what we said we were going to be.
Okay Mr. Rubio, can't wait to see what that is...
“In the past two years, Republicans listened to the American people and what they said is that it was time for a course correction.So Mr. Rubio, which course do you guys plan on taking, because you have been awfully vague on that issue. Although some of you have admitted you want to go back to the Bush policies that drove the economy into a ditch...
“The past two years provided a frightening glimpse at what could become of our great nation if we continue down the current path: wasteful spending, a growing debt and a government reaching ever further into our lives, even into our health care decisions. It is nothing short of a path to ruin, a path that threatens to diminish us as a nation and a people.
Actually Mr. Rubio things are beginning to turn around here since President Obama took the reigns from The Shrub. He saved us from a depression. The economy is growing, slowly yes but what do you expect in just 2 short years since we were on the brink of disaster. Oh and where is all this wasteful spending you all are referring to? You mean the spending a government has to do to stimulate the economy after a Republican president destroys it? We were on that path to ruin, it did threaten us as a nation and as a people, it was your party Mr. Rubio who had us on that path to ruin but now we are in a new land, a land of hope and change and promise because we have President Obama at the helm...
So by bad policies you mean the tax cuts for the very wealthiest Americans which bloated our national debt like never before in our history? The tax cuts for the rich that your party wants to make permanent so assuring that the next generation, and so on and so forth, are paying off this debt so the wealthy Americans can get massive tax cuts, so they can sit on their billions while the middle class and working poor have to work til they are in their 70's, hard labor at that!? Wow Mr. Rubio, how American of you...
.“The challenges are too great, too generational in scope for us to be merely opponents of bad policies. Instead, we will put forward bold ideas and have the courage to fight for them. This means preventing a massive tax increase scheduled to hit every American taxpayer at the end of the year.
“For many of us coming to Washington for the first time and others returning to serve, it’s a long way from home. A long way from the people whose eyes we looked into at town halls, at diners or roundtables, and promised that this time it would be different.OMG, Sorry Mr. Rubio, excuse me while I LMFAO!! This time will be different?? You really are wet behind the ears huh?
“This is our second chance to get this right. To make the right decisions and the tough calls and to leave our children what they deserve – the freest and most exceptional society in all of human history.
Exactly how many chances you say?? This is your second? What about all those other chances you blew, they don't count?The righties are thrilled with Rubios speech, they think he is the best thing to come along since sliced bread. But really, what do the GOPers have to offer??
Here's a great post from Politicususa on the subject of republican- do- nothing isms...a bit of what it says...
They (GOP)voiced opposition in all sorts of ways (mostly hysterical) to all sorts of projects (mostly beneficial) that would have brought money and employment to their states. They especially voiced opposition to high speed rail, while in February 2009, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the Democratically-controlled Congress allocated $8 billion to be granted to states for intercity rail projects, with “priority to projects that support the development of intercity high speed rail service.”.
In Wisconsin, incoming Republican Governor Scott Walker vowed on Wednesday to fulfill a pledge he made during his campaign to kill a high-speed rail project that would have linked Milwaukee and Madison, which itself was to be part of a larger project which would have created a high-speed rail corridor across the upper Midwest, spanning the scenic but rather long (about 6 hour) drive between Minneapolis and Chicago (see map above). The clincher: the project was going to cost Wisconsin NOTHING. The entire $810 million price tag was being covered by federal stimulus funds. Wisconsin could only profit from the plan, putting thousands to work, not to mention helping the environment. But Walker is a Republican.
Read the post, it shows how dedicated the Republican party is to putting Americans back to work and making our country prosperous once again....NOT!!!
