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applegrove

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Mon May 13, 2013, 10:42 PM May 2013

"5 Ways The Republican Party Has Sabotaged Our Economic Recovery"

5 Ways The Republican Party Has Sabotaged Our Economic Recovery

by LOLGOP at the National Memo

http://www.nationalmemo.com/5-ways-the-republican-party-has-sabotaged-our-economic-recovery/

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The Dow is over 15,000 and continually testing new highs. The unemployment rate and unemployment claims are at lows that haven’t been seen since before the economic crisis of 2008. If Mitt Romney were president, Republicans would be hailing him as the new Reagan with a better dye job.

Yet a right-wing group is suggesting that President Obama should be impeached for wrecking the stock market and slowing job growth.

The truth is that the Republican Party made a conscious decision to slow the economic recovery the moment the president took office. “After three hours of strategizing, they decided they needed to fight Obama on everything,” PBS’ Frontline reported.

To deny Obama a second term, they knew they had to slow the recovery. And their plan worked in 2010. The unemployment rate was rising as the GOP swept to the largest congressional landslide in the last half-century. However, their plans were thwarted as they paused their most aggressive efforts for the 2012 campaign and job growth continued at a steady pace of around 160,000 new jobs a month.

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"5 Ways The Republican Party Has Sabotaged Our Economic Recovery" (Original Post) applegrove May 2013 OP
oh I thought Obama might actually be speaking out finally. nevermind lol nt msongs May 2013 #1
Well ... 1StrongBlackMan May 2013 #2
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