It was somewhere between hilarious and pathetic to watch Republicans respond to the positive jobs report last Friday. Some friends and I were counting the minutes until some Republican started casting aspersions on the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which compiles and releases the data. Sure enough, by early Friday afternoon, Tea Party Congressman Allen West was saying (on the basis of no evidence of course) that \u201cAmericans need truth, not these number games.\u201d West\u2019s comment suggests a desperation that will spread if future reports are as good as last week\u2019s, which raises the question of what the Republicans will do next to try to wreck the economy.<\/p>\n
I know, one isn\u2019t supposed to talk like this. I know, it\u2019s evil to suggest that politicians would put their electoral fate this fall ahead of the conditions of the people. And, I know, it\u2019s just . . . ooooh, it\u2019s so mean!<\/p>\n
But the record shows clearly that all the Republican Party can do is destroy.<\/p>\n
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