Are Republicans Intentionally Sabotaging Economy For Political Gain?

NOT hyperbolic. It is as said in the introduction.

Not sure Henry where you and Dan have been but what is best for the client is no longer a concern of big business and has not been for awhile.

Some specific examples would be nice...

Maybe Gross has his own agenda... does he see the economy sputtering and think that Newsweek "America's Back!" cover is going to come back to haunt him?

I will not be suckered in to believe it is just the GOP.
It is the entire Congress and the entire House with the exception of a few in both parties.

They seem to be working for their own interests. Both Parties.

Fire them all and fill their seats with people who will work for us, the people.

Both parties hold America hostage for their own benefit.

It is mind boggling the media sides with either party. This article is pointing fingers. Media should report not point.

I do think this is a biased article.
It is all of them, Congress and the House with the exception of a few.

Why don't these two left wing democrats Obama drones acknowledge that in 2009 and 2010 when Obama had a House with a huge democratic majority and a super majority, Filibuster proof Senate, that could pass or not pass anything he and they wanted that they did absolutely nothing to create an environment to encourage the business community to invest and create jobs. Instead he and his socialist progressive liberals in the legislature rammed through health care with an unconstitutional individual mandate, which is raising the cost to businesses to buy health insurance for their employees, and they Rammed through the Dodd-Frank
Financial bill which contains onerous regulations on businesses. In those two years nothing was done about reforming entitlements, (Federal entitlements have $60 Trillion dollars in unfunded mandates. This past year there was a $40 Billion shortfall in social security revenue vs outlay. And Obama with the Payroll holiday tax bill is taking $120 Billion dollars out of social security for 2010 and proposes to do so in 2011 Pay attention seniors and all others about to become eligible for social security. Obama-care took $500 Million dollars out of Medicare to put into Medicaid
to raise the number of people on medicaid by 15 million to @ 75 milliolm. 48 Million
people on food stamps. Since the 53% of higher wage earners pay 97% of all personal federal income taxes they are the Americans subdizing our nanny state. That is redistribution of the wealth. Obama wants to run against a do nothing congress. If he does he will be forced to run against the do nothing democratic controlled Senate. The Democratic controlled senate has not passed a bjudget in three years. And in two of those three years the democrats held a filibuster majority of 60 demoicrat votes. In March 2011, within 2 months after they took control
of the house the republicans passed Rep. Ryan's budget which cut $6 Trillion in debt over ten years. Obama and Reid declared the house budget bill "dead on arrival'
in the senate. But the democratic senate did not pass a budget for fiscal 2012. On purpose. For political reasons. To allow Obama to run against a do nothing congress. Why don't Gross and Blodgett discuss these actions (or lack of actions)
by Obama and the democratic senate. If Obama called Sen. Reid and told him to pass a budget in the Senate Sen. Reid would hop to it. Sen. Reid believes Obama walks on water.

How is this new to these idiots? I don't even work "inside the beltway" and it's been obvious since Mitch McConnell's famous line about his only goal is to make sure Obama doesn't get re-elected. I eman seriously. These idiot reporters and pundits need to stop hanging out, havong drinks and going to dinner with the politicians they're covering. There should be some sort of rule about keeping their distance.

The Republican leadership represents only the richest Americans not the common working man for example nurses, school teachers, law enforcement, and others etc who makes over $40,000 a year with no dependents single they have to pay taxes, or if they are married with no children and both incomes total $80,000 they have to pay taxes as well. I feel as a person myself who fall in this range of pay is very unfair and if you are in the same shoes who pay taxes you should feel the same way. Yes I want to own my own business but can't becuase you have so much money to put down to run it. I was not born with a silverspoon in my mouth. When I drive by and see a run down houses with a bunch of poor trashy looking people living in these conditions with sign of a republican candidate in the yard with the house on wheels and the grass up to your knees it makes me wonder when these indiviuals who go to the polls and vote for a republican and can't even afford to fix their house and this is what you mean the better for the american people. Please and this is only one example come to dirty South sometimes and tell me what have the Republicans down for us lately!!!! The Republican candidate only come to Myrtle Beach, Florence, and Columbia ask them to come to Dillion SC, and this only one of the poor rural towns in SC and trust me there are many more. I feel they are like scorpios they only try to bad mouth Obama but no one still has not made no effort to show me they did anything. The nasty comments I seen so far you all still like a deer in head light with no clue we in the riches country and still don't know what to do. Stop whinning and blaming and work together.

The Republican leadership has stated on many occasions that their main goal is to hurt Obama politically. Any improvements and/or anything going well for America would look good on Obama and hurt the GOP's Presidential chances. So, duh, of course it's sabotage. Unfortunately the mess will be even bigger for a potential GOP President and we may never be able to make a come back. The Democrats are only talking about raising taxes on the top 2% earners who aren't creating jobs now but are hoarding it. They aren't talking about raising everyone's taxes which is pure Republican propaganda. Everything needs to be on the table for America to get out of this mess.

Umm...the congresses were controlled by the opposite parties at the time you stupid Fcuking libtard FAIL

its true.....and its not just the republican party. this is what happens when people who get elected have the ability to get anything they want....they want more...its human nature.

If the republican and democrat congressional members were really working in earnst for the American people they would not only talk about cutting spending they would have at the top of their to do lists completely overhauling our tax codes to make them simple and provide more of an even playing field for the majority ofl hard working Americans.
Over the years all of those tax favors in the form of exemptions and loopholes and subsidies to special interest were being done by both republicans and democrats to feed their political machines. If congress doesn't eliminate these type of tax favors and subsidies our country will continue to have more economic pain. Our tax codes because of these favors and years of abuses by congress are to a significant degree counter productive for the majority of hard working American housholds, and hurting our economy.
Prior to free trade the government and private sector jobs were in competiton for jobs almost exclusively within the borders of our country. Fedral and state coffers were benefiting from exponential/compounding growth in income tax revenue due to wage increases and inflationary trends. Now due to free trade and millions of jobs once held by americans in the private sector are being shipped overseas for lower wages and benefit costs. The exponential/compounding growth in income tax revenue is no longer happening in this post peak free trade phase of US jobs being shipped overseas. It is also causing imbalances because the private sector job force is no longer supplying the same pre free trade compounding income tax revenue needed to support the federal and state jobs wages and benefits. It is also part of the economic puzzle that is causing many states to find themselves with difficult fiscal problems.
Finding ways to take the tax burden off of companies that operate entirely within the US borders that creates jobs would be a step in the right direction. Giving tax incentives to companies for new hires would help. Use increases in consumption/sales taxes on all of the consumer goods coming into our country that are totally made in free trade countries to replace the taxes being eliminated of entirely based US companies. If we don't have incentives to create jobs we will continue to have economic problems. Also eliminate non essential welfare costs period.

Since the day Obama was elected the GOP took obstructionism to new heights. They used the filibuster more than any other time in history. They wanted Obama to fail no matter the cost. Look at every vote.; not one GOP dissenter.

how come the republicans did not worry about spending when bush was president, i wonder

wonder why there is so much lobbying if people are supposed to believe in the free market. im guessing that most people are hypocrites. lobbying for beneficial regulations has been a tactic of big business for a long time. political corruption extends to both parties. dodd took lots of money from the financial industry at the same time that republicans were taking money from the same people. neither party is innocent

Perot and Gebhardt both predicted this decades ago and no one listened ! Its globalism and globalists in both parties and the world government !

Its a shame that American politics has been degraded to the point that Mr, Gross can make his point somewhat believable. When you look at the behavior of our politicians in their personal lives, it does kind of make you scratch your head and wonder just how far they would go...democrat or republican.

Congress acts on there own best interest. Not the USA. Free markets that are free to leave the USA should be TAXED. 100% tax on all imported products. The USA has been mislead by wealthy importers using slave labor from Asia, that a free market is best for the USA, what @#$%.

Blodgett lecturing anyone about having principles. I love this.

no surprise to me yhis crap has been going on for my 65 years on earth...politicos basically only care about their salary,health care and the bennies after they leave office...like becoming a lobbyist or a ceo...