Republicans Deny Creation Theories and Even US Default Economics

"In short, it’s been back to square one again and again." (Washington Post, October 9, 2013)

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.  Albert Einstein

Incredulously, Republicans who deny scientific creation theories in favor of the concrete Biblical interpretation, in spite of tens of thousands of years of evidence to the contrary, now tell their extremist political follows how a US debt default won't be so bad as the Obama administration is suggesting to Americans. 

Oh really? Would Republican hypocrite extremists spread these same wrong minded economic myths if a Republican president were facing the preventable debt ceiling obstruction, given the predicted looming fiscal economic disaster?

Americans can't trust anything Republicans are selling regarding the US economy. Their fiscal policies brought on the Great Recession, but now they seem hell bent on causing a disastrous encore.

It makes no sense for Republicans, who deny science and who can't apply simple arithmetic to solve important public policy initiatives to also say the US debt ceiling crises is somehow not as disastrous as we are led by administration officials to believe.

It's like asking to be the first person to taste potentially poisonous food. 

Who wants to be first in a poison taste test? 

The government shutdown is in its ninth day and Boehner’s outlook now is arguably worse than it was the start of the shutdown.The Washington Post reports how Polling shows the public blames congressional Republicans more than Obama, Democrats haven’t budged from their demand for a “clean” bill to fund the government, and the shutdown is encroaching on the deadline to raise the debt ceiling.

What Boehner needs is a solution, and fast — one, ideally, that satisfies the cast-iron conservatives as much as possible but can also win the support of the Democratic Senate and Obama.

So far, there are no obvious options. And previous efforts have led the speaker nowhere.

He repeatedly called for Democrats to negotiate with him. They repeatedly responded that they will only talk after the government is funded and the debt ceiling is raised. The House passed three stopgap spending bills leading up to the shutdown that took aim at the Obamacare health care reform law. 

The Senate swiftly rejected all of them.

Boehner closed the door on voting for a clean continuing resolution (CR) to reopen the government and a clean bill to raise the debt limit. Yet, a short-term version of both might be the least painful way out of what’s proven to be a very tough situation for him.

Meanwhile, House Speaker Boehner, who is leader of the entire House of Representatives, is ignoring the majority of votes it's predicted he'd receive in a clean resolution vote to eliminate all of this preventable economic uncertainty.  

For political reasons only, Speaker Boehner won't allow a clean resolution to come up for a vote, just because he can. 

Boehner's bad behavior lacks leadership and shows spitefulness, rather than compassion, for the hardship his obstruction is causing to Americans, who are harmed by this economic bullying behavior. 

Boehner is childishly acting out because the GOP lost the 2012 presidential election.  Suppose his outrageous response had been the reaction during the election of 2000, when Democrat Vice President Al Gore lost to President George Bush?  That year's election was legitimately won by Vice President Al Gore, but the Supreme Court intervened and Democrats accepted the result.  

Now, however, House Speaker Boehner and his right wing minions are not showing respect for democracy when they continue to undermine the results of President Obama's legitimate victory in 2012, over Governor Mitt Romney.  President Obama received the most votes and won the election.  It was a legitimate election victory, validated by arithmetic.  

This current economic government shutdown, sustained by a minority of wrong minded Republican Tea Party zealots, must be stopped. President Obama must act to end this misery, on behalf of the people who voted for him. Meanwhile, Americans cannot be led to believe anything Republicans are saying about the effect of the economic stalemate they are creating with their obstructionist actions. Republican extremist Tea Party zealots don't believe in creation theory, they also don't understand how rape can cause pregnancy and they deny global warming. It's obvious these same wrong minded people can't be trusted to understand macro economics.

Jobs and Arithmetic

http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/latest-national/36268-video-and-transcript-of-president-obamas-speech-to-the-democratic-national-convention.html

Media pundits are not economists.  When they report one month of job recovery data, this should be compared to where our economy was, before the recovery from the Great Recession began.

I'm disappointed with pundits who have a responsibility to compare the jobs lost in the Great Recession with those gained since the recovery began:

http://stateofworkingamerica.org/great-recession/

The Great Recession—which officially lasted from December 2007 to June 2009—began with the bursting of an 8 trillion dollar housing bubble. The resulting loss of wealth led to sharp cutbacks in consumer spending. This loss of consumption, combined with the financial market chaos triggered by the bursting of the bubble, also led to a collapse in business investment. As consumer spending and business investment dried up, massive job loss followed. In 2008 and 2009, the U.S. labor market lost 8.4 million jobs, or 6.1% of all payroll employment. This was the most dramatic employment contraction (by far) of any recession since the Great Depression. By comparison, in the deep recession that began in 1981, job loss was 3.1%, or only about half as severe. 

Although the US economy added 96,000 jobs in August, while the unemployment rate edged lower to 8.1 percent from 8.3 percent, the flat economic report doesn't compare cumulative data collected at the beginning of the Great Recession. One data report reflecting a particular point in time is most effective when contrasted with another, similar, point in time. In other words, what did the 2007 jobs report look like?http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-57507909/august-jobs-report-disappoints/

Media pundits should follow President Bill Clinton's idea of applying simple arithmetic. We should compare the number of jobs lost during the collapse of the economy at the beginning of the Great Recession, against the number added, since then.

President Clinton is a stunningly convincing speaker. My husband and I saw him in person several times.  His greatest gift is an uncanny ability to speak in a common language to any audience he addresses. Regardless of who's in the audience, whatever their socioeconomic status or education level, Mr. Clinton can speak directly to everyone, at their level in life. 

Transcript of Clinton's convention speech at this link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-2012-bill-clintons-speech-at-the-democratic-national-convention-excerpt/2012/09/05/f208865e-f7a4-11e1-8253-3f495ae70650_story.html 

This is Clintontonian arithmetic:

"...Since 1961, for 52 years now, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24. In those 52 years, our private economy has produced 66 million private- sector jobs. So what’s the job score? Republicans: twenty-four million. Democrats: forty-two." 

Cliinton supports President Obama's re-election because, he said:

"I want -- I want a man who believes with no doubt that we can build a new American dream economy, driven by innovation and creativityy, by education and, yes, by cooperation."

"And by the way, after last night, I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama." (Referring to The First Lady's remarkably delivered and personal Democratic National Convention- ie DNC speech) http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/09/michelle-obama-convention-speech-twitter-reaction-/1#.UEtOmMFmSj8

Although I'm the last person to criticize media for reporting the news, my ire is raised when these same sources create the news.  Frankly, when it comes to reporting on the economy, I prefer President Clinton's arithmetic to media pundit news creating analysis.  

Let's move our nation Forward with the policies that have saved the US economy in the past, like reported in Clintonian arithmetic. Let's get out and vote for the re-election of President Obama.