Recycled Ideas from the Boehner Gang

- - The Republican Tea Party presented their Pledge to America (the group, formerly known as the Republican Party, has gone full right wing and united with the Tea Party) :
Christian Science Monitor:
"....The two-page pledge introducing the policy document is anchored in the language of the tea party movement and the nation’s founding texts, notably government’s powers derived from the consent of the governed and [inalienable] rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. “Whenever the agenda of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to institute a new governing agenda and set a different course,” the document states....

What has been the reaction to this "Pledge to America" that was presented to the country from an aisle in a hardware store?  The headline from Newsweek says it all:

Reactions to the 'Pledge to America': Mixed, but Mostly Negative

Once again the down home GOPers, show up to do their presentation in plaid, open collared shirts (probably Brooks Brothers), without ties.  Eric Cantor looks a little perplexed or is he still at war with Boehner?   Needless to say, their document is the same recycled mumbo-jumbo, tax cuts for the rich, trickle down, pro-business, no health care for you, poppy cock, only this time with a new title.  They have no idea how they'll pay for it.





- The DaytonDailyNews is reporting something different: 

The political arm of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce has broken with tradition and endorsed a governor candidate for the first time in 117 years.
They chose Republican challenger John Kasich (KAY'-sik) over incumbent Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat....
.....Strickland spokeswoman Lis Smith says Strickland fights for average Ohioans over "Wall Streeters and outsourcers."

Even the Ohio Chamber of Commerce has sold out to Wall Street????

****  Here's something that Republican Steve Stivers, a former bank lobbyist never would have done---- sponsor legislation called the Medical Debt Relief Act .

(Background information fromYouTube:  
Over 28 million Americans were harassed by debt collectors in 2007 because of health care bills, but a new piece of legislation from U.S. Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy would end the practice of using that debt even after it is settled to affect consumers credit scores. The Medical Debt Relief Act of 2009 would prohibit medical debt paid off or settled as a criteria for credit bureaus to determine approvals for mortgage rates and other consumer purchases.)

(YouTube):


Mary Jo Kilroy cares about her human constituents.  Stivers cares about banks, bankers and their profits.

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*** I was wondering how the people engaged in farming in Ohio's 15th congressional district (Franklin, Madison, and Union Counties) feel about Republican Steve Stivers plan to eliminate the Department of Agriculture.  Here is the entire Stivers list:

1. Repeal the health care reform bill
2. Repeal the 16th Amendment to the Constitution
3. Repeal the 17th Amendment to the Constitution
4. Eliminate the Department of Agriculture
5. Eliminate the Department of Education
6. Eliminate the Department of the Interior
7. Eliminate the Department of Housing of and Urban Development
8. Eliminate the Department of Transportation
9. Eliminate the Department of Energy

(To see the complete survey that Steve Stivers, a former bank lobbyist, filled out for the Glenn Beck meet up 912 group of central Ohio, visit - OH15 MTC QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.)


What do you think?