As Republicans Push Impeaching Obama, Consumer Confidence Surges to Five Year High

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Bad news for Republicans. In spite of their heroic efforts to destroy the economy under Obama, American consumer confidence has surged to the highest level since February of 2008. This news comes as Republicans are pushing to impeach Obama.

The AP reported Tuesday that “consumer confidence jumped in May to a reading of 76.2, up from 69 in April. That’s the highest level since February 2008, two months after the Great Recession officially began,” according to a report from the Conference Board, a private research group.

The hits keep coming for Republicans — home prices are surging, job growth is strengthening and stocks are soaring to record highs. “Americans are more hopeful about the economy than at any other point in five years.”

How can this be when Republicans refuse to even begin the budget reconciliation process, refused to pass one single jobs bills, and are once again endangering global financial confidence with threats of refusing to raise the debt ceiling, aka, refusing to make good on bills they already ran up? It’s as if the economy has it out for Republicans, as Americans abandon their petty efforts to obstruct a rebound.

“Investors on Tuesday celebrated the latest buoyant reports on consumer confidence and housing prices, which together suggest that growth could accelerate in the second half of 2013.” Oh, boy. Not to worry — Republicans have a summer of smear and fear lined up for Americans, and will be wasting millions of dollars trying to blame the Obama administration for their own edits to Benghazi emails and any other ugliness they can sell.

Last week, it became clear that Republicans had all but abandoned their “deficit” fear-mongering and replaced it with shiny new fictional concerns, given the news that ‘the President’s policies are contributing to the most rapid deficit reduction since World War II.’ Republicans definitely don’t want to discuss that things are getting better, especially since they vowed to obstruct the economy in order to bring President Obama down. That’s looking like a big fail now.

Republicans have signaled that they are going to double down on trying to impeach President Obama over imaginary offenses, even as the country displays epic disinterest in the monsters Republicans see under their beds.

If you were a Republican and your national brand was in the toilet, your tent shrinking by the hour, would you attempt to actually govern or would you double down on fear and smear, and hope you could destroy the burgeoning confidence of the country? Would you think your message of doom and gloom might be rejected in the face of facts, like soaring stocks and surging home prices? If you would reconsider banging your head into the same wall and expecting different results, then you clearly aren’t an elected official in the party of “parasitic” fringe, also known as the Republican Party.

Nothing kills cynicism and fear faster than hope and confidence. Americans are moving on, leaving the inept paranoia of the GOP in the dust. The country is not in the mood for another witch hunt impeachment drama; they’d rather enjoy the recovery from the Bush economy. The GOP will put on their Impeachment Drama, and only the beltway media will show up (the same people who ignored Occupy and the Iraq War protests). We will all have to waste time debunking their nonsense, but in the end, Republicans will do what they do best: They will hurt themselves the most.

Sarah Jones

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