Bartlett Brings The Wood

As he toured several areas in Martinsville and Henry County on Tuesday, 5th District U.S. Rep. Robert Hurt R-Chatham) said he will focus on affecting change that will lead to job creation — including ending unnecessary regulations — when he returns to Washington next week.

As yes, the ol' regulations kill jobs canard. One of the standard Republican big lies that together they must tell thousands of times a day. Anyway, Bruce Bartlett says it's utter bullshit, and has the goods to back it up.

We would only add that it's deregulation that kills jobs. For example, they deregulated the financial sector and that led to worldwide economic meltdown. As a result, at the end of the last 8 years of Republican rule, at the end of BushCo, we were losing 800,000 jobs a month. The numbers are a matter of public record. This is history's verdict.

Projection

Raw Story: Paul Ryan (R-WI) suggested Sunday that the Occupy Wall Street protests were the fault of President Barack Obama for “sowing class envy and social unrest.”

Of course exactly the opposite is true. Democratic party public policy decreases the gap between rich and poor and expands the middle class. Republican party public policy increases the gap between rich and poor and destroys the middle class. When the middle class shrinks and the gap between rich and poor increases, social unrest follows.

Now They Want Science?

Herman Cain: ‘Show Me The Science’ That Being Gay Is Not A Choice

If Herman Cain feels that he can make the choice to become sexually aroused enough to have intercourse with another man, he needs to take a hard look at his own sexual orientation.

Investigations

Washington (CNN) -- The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee called Tuesday for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate whether Attorney General Eric Holder was honest when he testified earlier this year about his knowledge of a now-discredited federal gunrunning operation.

Ok but first we need investigations of the GOP voter suppression and voter intimidation schemes, the GOP campaign to kill the USPS, GOP efforts to lie us into a war and occupation in Iraq, the Bush administration's deliberate outing of the CIA spy network tasked with keeping nuclear material and technology from terrorists, Clarance Thomas's failure to report payments to his wife, the Koch brothers dealings in Iran, and what appears to be the criminal corruption involved in selling off the commons to campaign contributors in Ohio. If there are any Republicans who are not in prison after that, they can call for an investigation of Holder.

National Disaster

Reagan Insider: "How the GOP destroyed the US economy"

It's from last year but since the effects will be felt for decades to come, its worth reading again. More immediately, their policy hasn't changed and neither will the result. If we have any hope of fixing things we can't subject ourselves to Republican rule. Voting Republican is voting for national disaster. Don't vote for national disaster.

Got Your Apology RIGHT HERE

Huffington Post: Former Vice President Dick Cheney, along with his daughter Liz, praised President Barack Obama Sunday for the drone strike that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, but also said that the president owes the Bush administration an apology.

The Cheney administration allowed the worst terrorist attack in our nations history, lied and cheated to involve us in the devastating debacle that is Iraq, tripled the national debt, let 55,000 factories and millions of jobs move overseas, deliberately outed the CIA spy network tasked with keeping nuclear material and technology from terrorists, and left our economy in complete meltdown. He was well on his way to destroying this country before Obama had to come in and stop the bleeding. He should be in prison.

Killer Public Policy

Headline: Top Official Rejects GOP Charges EPA Kills Jobs

Getting rid of the EPA will create some jobs. There will be a much greater need for cancer specialists, hospice workers, and grave diggers.