Saturday, November 03, 2012

Romney: Elect Me Or Else the House GOP Will Wreck The Economy

It's a bizarre closing argument for any campaign, but here's part of Mitt Romney's effort to close the deal: elect me or else the GOP controlled House of Representatives  will force a debt ceiling disaster. Yes, it is truly bizarre, but then again today's GOP is way past bizarre.  Rather than allow Barack Obama to be successful in a second term, Romney states that the House Republicans would rather force a debt crisis and drive the nation (and possibly the world) into a new economic depression.  It's an example of the spoil brat syndrome that is today's GOP.  It's akin to a spoil, undisciplined child who cannot have his/her way who then destroys whatever they can get their hands on.  Sadly, in this case what will be destroyed is the lives and finances of millions of Americans.  The GOP has clearly discarded any sense of wanting what's best for the nation or everyday Americans.  

Of course, what makes it all even more perverse and hypocrisy filled is the fact that the GOP claims to be the party of "family values" and "Christian morality."  The GOP simply no longer cares what harm it inflicts on millions of hard working Americans and their families.  It's part and parcel with the desire to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act and leave millions without insurance and the sick Romney/Ryan desire to disband federal emergency relief programs and leave relief and recover work either to the states or vulture like private contractors.  In the wake of Hurricane Frederic in Mobile back in 1979, I saw first had how rapacious contractors can be in desperate situations such as those currently in New York and New Jersey.  Yet this is what Romney in the past says he favors.  But I digress.  Here are highlights from Talking Points Memo where Romney's threat to voters is reviewed:

In what his campaign billed as his “closing argument,” Mitt Romney warned Americans that a second term for President Obama would have apocalyptic consequences for the economy in part because his own party would force a debt ceiling disaster.  “Unless we change course, we may well be looking at another recession,” Romney told a crowd in West Allis, Wisconsin.

Romney said that Obama “promised to be a post-partisan president, but he became the most partisan” and that his bitter relations with the House GOP could threaten the economy. As his chief example, he pointed to a crisis created entirely by his own party’s choice — Republican lawmakers’ ongoing threat to reject a debt ceiling increase. Economists warn that a failure to pass such a measure would have immediate and catastrophic consequences for the recovery. 

“You know that if the President is re-elected, he will still be unable to work with the people in Congress,” Romney said. “He has ignored them, attacked them, blamed them. The debt ceiling will come up again, and shutdown and default will be threatened, chilling the economy.”

With four days left, Romney may need an exceptionally strong close to overcome the president in the electoral college. The overwhelming majority of polls show Obama with a modest but stable lead in critical swing states, most notably Ohio, and other potentially decisive states like Virginia and Colorado remain tossups at best. 

Many in the GOP seek to describe Obama as "un-American."  One can only assume is what is really happening is that they are looking at themselves in the mirror.  

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