While the Abbott and DeSantis recent actions seem fresh and stark the GOP willing to damage the economies affecting their own constituents for political reasons isn't really anything particularly new. I seem to recall Mitch "My Number One Goal is to Make Obama a One Term President" McConnell and the R's in Congress and in the states doin…
While the Abbott and DeSantis recent actions seem fresh and stark the GOP willing to damage the economies affecting their own constituents for political reasons isn't really anything particularly new. I seem to recall Mitch "My Number One Goal is to Make Obama a One Term President" McConnell and the R's in Congress and in the states doing everything in their power to chill economic recovery thus denying Obama a positive economic record after inheriting a true mess. This hurt the whole country including scarlet red districts. McConnell actually had the gaul to bash Obama as presiding over the slowest recovery since the Great Depression during the 2012 election. Yeah, no thanks to you Mitch. Also recall then Gov. Scott Walker (pun only partially intended) killing the much anticipated Milwaukee-to-Madison passenger train project (one that was originally championed by none other than Tommy Thompson no less!) in order to prevent Obama from scoring a transportation victory for Southern Wisconsin which would have been a boon for the economies of Wisconsin's two largest cities.
While it's true that trying to forestall an economic recovery in order to damage a political opponent isn't exactly the same thing as taking a hatchet directly to business, isn't the end result the same? It costs real-world, everyday people money and adds economic hardship to their lives, unnecessarily.
While the Abbott and DeSantis recent actions seem fresh and stark the GOP willing to damage the economies affecting their own constituents for political reasons isn't really anything particularly new. I seem to recall Mitch "My Number One Goal is to Make Obama a One Term President" McConnell and the R's in Congress and in the states doing everything in their power to chill economic recovery thus denying Obama a positive economic record after inheriting a true mess. This hurt the whole country including scarlet red districts. McConnell actually had the gaul to bash Obama as presiding over the slowest recovery since the Great Depression during the 2012 election. Yeah, no thanks to you Mitch. Also recall then Gov. Scott Walker (pun only partially intended) killing the much anticipated Milwaukee-to-Madison passenger train project (one that was originally championed by none other than Tommy Thompson no less!) in order to prevent Obama from scoring a transportation victory for Southern Wisconsin which would have been a boon for the economies of Wisconsin's two largest cities.
While it's true that trying to forestall an economic recovery in order to damage a political opponent isn't exactly the same thing as taking a hatchet directly to business, isn't the end result the same? It costs real-world, everyday people money and adds economic hardship to their lives, unnecessarily.