Tornado Alley (PROG)

[StephanieVanbryce]

Mitch McConnell, leading Republican in the Senate, felt it was perfectly okay to declare before the 2010 midterm elections that his main goal, if the GOP won control, would be to incapacitate the president of the United States: “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”

Needless to say, this is not an environment conducive to effective anti-depression policy, especially given the way Senate rules allow a cohesive minority to block much action.

Economy killers: Inequality and GOP ignorance

By failing Econ 101, Republican leaders failed the country and repeated the errors that caused the Great Depression



Sunday, Apr 15, 2012 5:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time

http://politics.salon.com/2012/04/15/economy_killers_inequality_and_gop_ignorance/singleton/