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To: Metacomet who wrote (100349)	8/29/2011 11:15:25 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 149317

Wouldn't surprise me. That's the end result of a Dem trying to be an R. Why not elect the real deal? I am encouraged by Perry's science background. Very few people in this country have gotten as far as organic chem. Scientifically illiterate Americans has been a pet peeve of mine. At least Rick Baby flunked it. That's a good beginning.

To: Metacomet who wrote (100349)	8/30/2011 10:55:30 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Guess I don't know how many times it's going to take, for the Republicans to do what any thinking person reasons is political suicide, only to have a disinterested Fox News saturated electorate just shrug it off. Cantor seems very confident of his position. Either he knows a majority of American have his back, or he is working diligently to get the Speaker's position in the House. Personally, I think its the latter. I find it hard to believe that Americans are willing to sit around waiting for disaster relief while Congress screws around looking for offsets.......but then I have misjudged the American position in the past.

To: Metacomet who wrote (100349)	8/30/2011 11:09:29 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Cantor unveiled his proposal yesterday along with McConnell from the Senate. Boehner was nowhere to be found. If only pollution could create jobs White House officials are still in the process of completing their new economic agenda, to be unveiled next week, but House Republicans are apparently done with their new plan. Nearly eight months into the new Congress, the GOP hasn’t even brought any jobs bills to the floor, but now they seem to have settled on a new vision on how to create jobs. Well, perhaps “new” is overstating matters. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Monday laid out an ambitious anti-tax and anti-regulations agenda for the fall. In a memo to rank-and-file Republicans, Cantor said the House will target 10 major regulations for elimination, and will also seek to enact one major tax cut for businesses. Cantor sees an economy lacking demand, a public sector shedding jobs, workers with stagnant wages, and anemic growth, and has apparently concluded, “What we really need right now is deregulation.” And what kind of regulations are being targeted? High on Cantor’s list are measures that limit the amount of mercury and other toxins that boiler and incinerator operators can burn into the atmosphere. In case this isn’t obvious, Cantor’s plan is a poor jobs agenda. Indeed, it’s not really an agenda in any meaningful sense at all. Republicans have been pushing for deregulation efforts like these for decades — Cantor isn’t responding to a changing economic landscape and new demand-driven challenges with a tailored package of policy solutions; Cantor is just listing a bunch of safeguards Republicans want to scrap anyway. There’s just no depth of thought here. The GOP leadership believes businesses might hire more if, for example, they were *allowed to pollute more, while Democrats believe business might hire more if they had more customers.* Not that it much matters. As Cantor surely realizes, the Senate and the White House won’t try to create jobs by weakening clean air safeguards. But I think it’s at least mildly helpful anyway in letting the public know where the two parties stand. Next week, President Obama will present one vision, likely built around investing in infrastructure and school construction, which can then be compared against the House Republican vision, built around looser pollution controls. I have a hunch the American mainstream will prefer the former over the latter, if the debate actually reaches any of the public.