Just a little look here at what’s happening across the pond in Europe with cut…Cut…CUT…thing….
If John Boehner hasn’t look over his shoulder….
He might want to….
As I’ve pointed out earlier today here…
Compromise and slowing down on the layoff’s is the way to go….
The politician’s in Euorpe are getting the message the hard way over there….
And just yesterday France’s new President got some backing from merkel when he talked stimulus instead to cutting….
The New Greek government will be talking the same….
But ole John Boehner is going the opposite way, eh?
Maybe he DOES want Romney to lose?
treehugger.com
One of the most powerful messages that U.S. politicians have delivered to voters over the past few years is the warning that the nation will “become Greece” if it doesn’t lower its debt and deficit. But now voters in Greece and across Europe are sending back a warning of their own.
American elites are fond of describing the nation they represent as exceptional. But the language of reelection is universal — and bipartisan.
“Off with their heads,” said Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) when asked about the message European voters were sending.
Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) both said the European elections are a frequent topic of conversation among senators. “Every bill up here is a ‘jobs’ bill. It’s your job,” said Graham. “I guess the question is, how much do you want the job?”
Sunday’s rebuke to Merkel in North Rhine-Westphalia, home to some 18 million Germans, came a week after French voters tossed out President Nicolas Sarkozy and elected socialist François Hollande, a symbol of the anti-austerity movement. And that followed electoral rebukes to the ruling coalitions in Spain, Greece, Holland, Britain and Italy.
Trickett, who was previously a parliamentary aide to then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown, said that although elections are “complex,” he was sure the government’s handling of the economy was a major factor in recent losses.
“There is no doubt that at the front of people’s minds was that the austerity measures are not working. That does explain the election result,” he said.
In the United Kingdom, where voters tend to behave most similarly to those in the United States, the governing Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition that took power in 2010 has defined itself by its mission to cut the budget deficit by imposing spending cuts across public services. Despite falling living standards and rising unemployment, the Conservative Party had largely managed to sustain the near 37 percent approval rating it secured at the time of the general election — high by British standards because of the parliamentary system.
However, following the party’s 2012 budget, which included a headline-grabbing tax cut for the wealthiest Britons, and news that the UK had slipped back into recession, its poll rating plummeted below 30 percent for the first time since 2004. This slip in support was reflected in local council elections in May, when both the Conservatives and the Lib Dems suffered heavy losses.
Overall, the Conservatives lost 405 council seats while the Lib Dems lost 336. By contrast, the Labour Party gained 823 councillors. Labour secured a 38 percent national share of the vote, while the Tories received just 31 percent.
Labour MP Trickett’s advice for Obama and the Democrats? Even though he is the one in office, the president must “capture the spirit of insurgency against austerity” in his fight against Mitt Romney…..
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Your continuing effort to compare what is happening on Europe to American politics is wrong in my view
The European polity is totally different from the American one
I mean France just elected a PROUD SOCIALIST President!
Austerity measures have always enjoyed a much higher level of support here that in Europe
I don’t agree with Boehner
But I’m not sure that politically his stand is a negative
And certainly what’s happening in Europe is not of any significance
Well that’s WASN’T why the Congressmen where questioning the Fed Chair about Europe, eh?
That isn’t why we sneezed and Europe STILL has an Economic Cold?
Of course we’re different nation’s but Europe DOES have a affect on this country…
As the Wall Street types…..
The difference is Europeans actually went to the streets harder than our Occupy did….
And fired their ‘leaders’
Your responses have nothing to do with my comments
I didn’t say that economic affairs in Europe have no effect here
For sure they do
But as to the POLITICS
Comparing European politics to American is a waste of time
And austerity is a big vote getter in the US
Indeed it’s what has kept the Republican Party going all theses years!
Boehner understands that
Yes…
You ARE correct on the right red meat wingnuts….
The Politics ARE also different by name I’d agree…
But at the end of the day….
I’d say that Boehner IS flirting with problems come September…
Running on austerity IN MY MIND
IS gonna cost him and most importantly MiTT Romney
Votes as it has in Europe….
And as we BOTH say…
Boehner KNOWS that…
Party come first to some….
The decision most Americans have to make is in what direction they want the country to go in and WHAT effects their pocketbooks the most.
Romney is the challenger and considering that the economic mess really “evolved” under their “stewardship” is just one reason Obama has an edge.
Problem is that America made it’s bed and now it gets to sleep in it.
The bi partisan banking modernization act combined with the partisan community reinvestment act was a bad deal (unless your a Democrat politican) for America but it’s too late to change the results now.
And higher taxes? Never stopped anyone from getting rich but it has helped people get poor. Hense the extention of the Bush tax cut done at a time when the Democrats owned both houses of Congress. I have to believe infuential Democratic contributors would have been hurt by it.
So we have the new extention coming up around election time, the Supreme Court rulings on the Health Care plan in June, and the economy in general all interacting by World Series time.
So will it be the Welfare State socialists or the free market Capitolists?
And what about same sex marrage?
I think the American people will get it where the Sun does not shine in any case.
“The politician’s in Euorpe are getting the message the hard way over there….”
Wait until the checks bounce.
“And higher taxes? Never stopped anyone from getting rich but it has helped people get poor”
The 1990′s would disagree with you there Manila
Ouch!