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Rachel Maddow’s Fear: G.O.P. Equals J.O.B.
Townhall.com ^ | February 18, 2014 | John Ransom

Posted on 02/18/2014 4:09:21 AM PST by Kaslin

MSNBC, the Houston Chronicle and other mainstream media outlets are saying that Republican intervention in the union vote at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee helped to tip scales, like somehow the GOP committed a crime.

And in doing so, they provided the GOP with an important campaign focus group: The liberals are deathly afraid that Americans will discover that, yes, the Republicans aren’t afraid of helping to create jobs in the private sector.

“It was as ferocious an anti-union campaign as anything Americans have seen in a while,” says the MSNBC Rachel Maddow blog. “Indeed, the Republican effort, bolstered by inside-the-Beltway lobbying activists like Grover Norquist, featured both carrots and sticks: GOP policymakers not only threatened to kill tax incentives for the plant if workers joined a union, but Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said he had secret knowledge that if employees turned down the UAW, the plant would be rewarded with a new product line.”

Then thank God for Bob Corker.

The GOP governor and members of the Tennessee legislature, along with Sen. Bob Corker combined to warn workers at the Volkswagen plant that acceptance of the UAW representation would cost jobs and cost job creation in the future, as it always does when the UAW is involved.

“The German automaker's CEO, Martin Winterkorn, announced at the Detroit auto show last month that the seven-passenger SUV will go on sale in the U.S. in 2016,” says the Chronicle. “Winterkorn said the new model will be part of a five-year, $7 billion investment in North America.”

Now that the union vote is out of the way Tennessee might be in line for that investment.

$7 billion multiplied by 50 states is $350 billion, or a third of the money Obama wasted on stimulus spending to create no jobs.

So that begs the question: Can the GOP hurry up and do for the rest of the country what they did for Tennessee?

Yes, we can. Sí, se puede.

Because there has never been more money available for jobs and investment.

Ever.

And companies are stuck doing things like buying back their own stock in the open market and increasing cash dividends because the administration treats the private hiring of workers in this country like a crime against humanity.

It’s easier to qualify for food stamps than it is to find a job. It’s so bad that immigrants are crossing back to Mexico to find opportunity.

Last year the liberal AtlanticMonthly said that “the U.S. becoming a less attractive destination” for Mexicans. “[Mexican] GDP growth rivals Brazil's, and economically, some economists think the country is doing even better than the United States.”

And all this time we thought the administration didn’t have an effective plan to combat illegal immigration.

All this at a time when Obama is telling us: “The private sector is doing fine.”

Only a group of myopic, academic, ideologues, like the ones who have seized control of the Democrat wing of the Democrat party, would have fumbled the opportunity to create record jobs in the U.S. that has been available the last six years.

They can feel doubly rewarded by the fact that instead of attending to the peoples’ business and fueling job creation, they chose instead to pass the still-born “Obamacare Monument to That President We Would Rather Not Talk About in 2014.”

The irony, as Democrats rush to divorce themselves from the consequences of the law, is that they have done everything to let people know that they are 100 percent for Obamacare, and Republicans are 100 percent against it.

Like in the Tennessee union vote, you don’t need a scorecard to know where everyone stands.

That makes the election focus in 2014 really easy.

G.O.P. equals J.O.B.

Thanks, Maddow, for the assist.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: jobs; pmsnbc; rachelmaddow; uaw

1 posted on 02/18/2014 4:09:21 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I want ferocious Republicans advocating for conservative causes. I guess Rachel expects them all to behave like McCain and Graham.


2 posted on 02/18/2014 4:39:37 AM PST by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: Kaslin

Well, this is a nice optimistic article. I think I will not read any more articles on FR this morning, and keep basking in the positive glow from this one while I go to work.

G.O.P.=J.O.B. Nice one!


3 posted on 02/18/2014 4:40:42 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Kaslin
Why do I suspect the UAW is lobbying the NLRB for a revote?
You do understand Washington-speak? Lobbying is the PC word for BRIBE.
I cannot wait to hear the administration's explanation for their ruling to schedule a new vote and the newest and bestest reason for the new election.
Plus, if the Republicans do not screw up as expected they may have to use it in early November
4 posted on 02/18/2014 4:45:03 AM PST by Tupelo (I am feeling more like Philip Nolan every day)
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To: Kaslin
Hey Republicans, It's the Economy Stupid!
5 posted on 02/18/2014 4:47:12 AM PST by McGruff (Every night has it's dawn.)
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To: Kaslin

I heard a statement from a union thug where he basically was accusing conservatives of learning how to organize — like how dare they use their tactics! :-)

On the other hand, a worker told FOX News he would be paid $3 less per hour if the union came in.


6 posted on 02/18/2014 4:47:21 AM PST by Heart of Georgia
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To: Kaslin

Maddow and her ilk MUST find some one, some thing to blame for the loss. Otherwise they will be forced to admit the obvious, that workers, given the choice, will not vote for unions.


7 posted on 02/18/2014 4:49:29 AM PST by ken5050 (This space available cheap...)
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To: Kaslin

Corker left marks and scars on the UAW. The stinging pain will persist for a very long time. Hopefully till UAW death

Unmentioned in all the hubbub is another Tennessee VW facility.

Out in the country, on I 40 west of knoxville in Roane County, VW has developed a large , 400,000 square foot parts distribution facility.

VW and Tennessee have a symbiotic relationship the UAW was not going to be allowed to screw with.


8 posted on 02/18/2014 4:50:21 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: Kaslin

With libs, it’s always a one-way street. Bring in the UAW to monopolize the union effort, and that’s okay. But if anyone wants to offer an opposing view or illustrate what the effects will be should the UAW effort win, well, then the hell with the First Amendment!


9 posted on 02/18/2014 5:10:38 AM PST by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: Kaslin

Folks like Rachel Maddow are huge recruiters to the GOP. You only need watch this woman a little bit to see the extreme hatred and contempt she has for anyone not a far left extremist. Who would want to be associated with the likes of her?


10 posted on 02/18/2014 6:12:01 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2014 and the Crusades 2014?)
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To: Kaslin
It’s easier to qualify for food stamps than it is to find a job. It’s so bad that immigrants are crossing back to Mexico to find opportunity.

Did Jay Leno get a new gig at Townhall?.................

11 posted on 02/18/2014 6:31:50 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: exDemMom

That might be seen as a negative among certain sectors of our society. Wouldn’t want to get j.o.b. l.o.c.k.e.d.


12 posted on 02/18/2014 6:36:55 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Kaslin
“The German automaker's CEO, Martin Winterkorn, announced at the Detroit auto show last month that the seven-passenger SUV will go on sale in the U.S. in 2016,” says the Chronicle. “Winterkorn said the new model will be part of a five-year, $7 billion investment in North America.”

Just about the time my Honda Pilot will need to be replaced. Hmm.

13 posted on 02/18/2014 6:59:15 AM PST by sportutegrl
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To: Kaslin
The Unions are a good-faith loyal wing of the Democratic Party, intertwined at every corrupt level. Union fatcats dine with Democratic politicians at the best restaurants on their dues paying members dime.

How dare Republicans work against their beautiful marriage?

14 posted on 02/18/2014 7:04:51 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Kaslin

G.O.P.=J.O.B.

Nice slogan. It will work well for the LIV’s.

Yet, I have come to view the G.O.P. as the S.O.P.


15 posted on 02/18/2014 8:56:35 AM PST by VRW Conspirator ( 2+2 = V)
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To: Red Badger

Huh? John Ransom and Jay Leno don’t even look alike. *rme*


16 posted on 02/18/2014 9:15:10 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
The quote:

It’s easier to qualify for food stamps than it is to find a job. It’s so bad that immigrants are crossing back to Mexico to find opportunity.

Sounds like a Jay Leno joke.................

17 posted on 02/18/2014 9:20:48 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: Red Badger

Maybe he got it from Jay Leno, who knows?


18 posted on 02/18/2014 9:33:12 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Or he could become a writer for the new guy, what’s-his-face......................


19 posted on 02/18/2014 9:41:20 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: Kaslin

That headline needs to be our theme for the next half decade. Every move to hobble the executive agencies and put the proper power to make law back into the legislature will be welcomed with open arms by the American people.


20 posted on 02/19/2014 8:12:40 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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