The Republican plan to wreck the economy and then blame the Dems. Will it work?

[Joanne98]

For OpEdNews: Richard Clark - Writer

The Republican Party and its powerful allies in the right-wing news media made it clear from the moment Barack Obama took office that they would demonize everything he tried to do, especially with respect to the economy.

Knowing that progressives had no comparable media infrastructure with which to respond and that many Democrats would cower when attacked the Republicans now appear to have convinced many Americans to hand congressional power back to the GOP, a situation that Stephen Crockett addresses in this Consortium News article, a synopsis of which follows here.

Republicans in Congress have decided that sabotaging economic recovery and employment growth is their best tactic for electoral gains in November as long as they can pin the blame for all the joblessness and the bad economy on the Democrats. And this it seems fairly likely they will succeed in doing, given that most Dem voters are essentially asleep at the wheel when it comes to really understanding how our political economic system works. Signs of this Republican plan have been cropping up since the Democratic victories in 2008.

Here are the things you need to understand, to clearly see how this Republican plan will work:

1. Economic recessions and depressions almost always result from insufficient "effective" consumer demand for goods and services produced domestically. In economic terms, merely wanting something does not constitute "effective demand." For a want to become an "effective" demand for goods or services, it must be accompanied by the monetary ability to actually make the purchase.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Republican-plan-to-wre-by-Richard-Clark-100805-768.html

[whyverne]

1. That scary thought is bopping around in my head again.

That they wanted Obama to win. That's why they ran Fred Mertz and Lucy against him. Now they can blame it all on Obama, get re-elected and continue the pillage of middle class America.

[Froward69]

4. Nah I think

it is the electorate via internet and 24 news cycle sees the clowns for who they put up... Puppets.

republicans disdain losing... they can't even admit when they are wrong

[pscot]

10. When you reach a certain level of stupid

You're too stupid to realize how stupid you are. Studies prove it.

[tom_paine]

6. Very possible that is the case. Also, letting Obama win ensures no one will ever question

corporatized, unverified "voting" again.

The clock is reset on all that stuff now, if not worse. After election after election of Bushie Fraud and thievery, some of it right out in the open and the Dems refusing to further investigate even when the Bushies were caught red-handed (FL-13 in 2006 comes to mind, as well as another FL and an OH).

People had begun to start questioning it, which is crazy since unverified corporatized vote counting is self-evidently a barrier to trustworthy, people-powered vote-counting.

Now, never again in our lifetimes. And my guess is that Alvine Greene in SC was another little test by the Bushies, which the SC Dems ratified, as per usual to the bullies and cowards paradigm that now prevails.

But yes, I have a strong suspicion that is the case, or something close to it. No matter what the answers "behind the scenes", whether "conspiracy theory or 100% as Corporate M$M tells us, the only thing that is certain are the unspeakable results, and the trends in our Titanic of a nation.

[abq e streeter]

7. "our Titanic of a nation"...well put...Tragic to have to agree with that, but that's about right

[bergie321]

8. Afraid you are right

The only question is whether Jeb Bush is "elected" in 2012 or 2016.

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. This guy really nails it. Good read.

K&R

[Botany]

3. Why else would they stop small business loans if not to hurt the economy?

The loans (not grants) would be secured and vetted before going to the small businesses so there would
be very little risk and w/ the backside being that more people would get jobs. But the republicans want
a down economy to blame Obama and the democrats for as a campaign issue.

BTW the tax cuts for the wealthy do not and did not create jobs.

http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=usunemployment&met=unemployment_rate&tdim=true&dl=en&hl=en&q=unemployment+graphs

[madrchsod]

5. it will if we let them....

as much as i disagree with obama`s policies they are far better than the nothing the republicans are offering.

[felix_numinous]

9. Great article, thanks.

Sane Republicans should go on the endangered species list.

[emulatorloo]

11. excellent article - thanks for posting it

I am hoping this strategy backfires in a big way. But I fear that it won't