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President Obama praised workers on Labor Day while calling out the lies of the Republican Party. The President all but called Republicans delusional on the economy and said, “They don’t let facts or evidence get in the way.”
The President discussed the economic recovery since the Great Recession. He said, “When I came into office business leaders said the place to invest was in China. They don’t say that no more.”
Later President Obama dropped a bit on truth on Republicans as he called out their ability to deny facts and reality.
The President said:
There are some folks in Washington, and some folks who are trying to get to Washington, who don’t want to face these facts. No matter whether we’re supporting working families, or signing up folks for healthcare anything else that we do we keep on hearing back from them. Well, you’re gonna destroy jobs. You’re going to crush freedom. You can’t have a minimum wage for people. It’s bad for business. Bad for jobs. You can’t provide people with healthcare. It’s going to destroy the economy.
In their world, the only way to help the country grow and help people get ahead is to cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires, loosen up rules on big banks and polluters, then you just wait. You look up at the sky and prosperity will just come raining down from whatever the top is of the high rise of the biggest building in your city.
But that’s not how the economy works. That’s not how working people get ahead. And that mindset that ideology is what’s been shrinking wages and increasing inequality and wrecking the economy for a long long time.
We’re fighting to reverse it, but these folks are pretty stubborn. I will give them credit. They don’t let facts or evidence get in the way.
They really don’t. And as I said, Republicans in Washington are trying to rebrand themselves as the party of the middle-class. I’m glad they’re doing it. Really. I want them to start rethinking their positions on issues. I’d love to work them on stuff. But you can’t just talk the talk, you gotta to walk the walk. You can’t talk middle-class and then do things that hurt the middle-class. You can’t say you care about working people then do things that hurt working people.
President Obama called out Republicans for being wrong about every single prediction of doom that they have offered, being tied to an ideology that makes the economy worse, not caring about facts and reality, and pretending to care about the middle-class and workers when they are doing things that hurt the middle-class and workers.
Obama demonstrated why he had been beating Republicans for years. He understands that Republicans don’t care about facts and reality. He can’t negotiate with them. He can’t work with Republicans in Congress because they are playing an ideological zero sum game. It is their way or nothing.
President Obama wants bipartisanship, but he realizes that unless Republicans change, it isn’t going to happen. He has learned how to beat the ideologues by using their own inflexibility and reality denial against them.
The President is coming down hard on Republicans, and this is just a taste of what awaits them if they try to shut down the government at the end of this month. President Obama isn’t holding back. He is calling out the broken ideology and lies that fuel the Republican Party.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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