Hatch Explains Bennett’s Defeat: Tea Party Doesn’t ‘Have An Open Mind And They Won’t Listen’
Hatch — who has previously warned the Tea Party to start working more closely with the Republican Party — criticized the Tea Party for rallying against Bennett:Far right-wing policies got us into the Great Recession and now Republicans ( Tea Party is just another name for right-wingers allergic to responsibility) want to go even further in their anti-American policies...damn the facts, let's bring back the worse crony capitalism excesses of the Bush years. They'll probably succeed because such a large segment of the population are unthinking sheeple.
HATCH: A lot of these Tea Party people are angry, and I’m angry too. … I mean my gosh, They’re mad. They have a right to be mad and I think these Tea Party people are doing the country a service. But when they don’t have an open mind and they won’t listen, that’s another matter and that’s something I think anybody would find fault with.
Republicans embrace a talking point about jobs that lacks, surprise, a basis in facts. Bid a fond farewell to a talking point
Republicans embrace a talking point about jobs that lacks, surprise, a basis in facts. Bid a fond farewell to a talking pointConservative economic policies from 2000 to 2008 are responsible for the greatest lost of jobs since the Great Depression.
It's a quandary for House Republicans: How do you talk about the best job growth in four years when your mantra has been, "Where are the jobs?"
Riding high and hopeful that they can retake the House in the fall, GOP leaders so far are largely sticking to last year's playbook despite last week's jobs report showing 290,000 jobs were added in April and 573,000 so far this year.
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) even used the "Where are the jobs?" line in a seeming non sequitur last week reacting to the jobs report.
As Rachel Maddow put it the other day, "Dude, they're right here. What a weird thing to say."
