GOP Obstructionism is the plan by Rich Republicans

Quotes from WashingonIndependent.Com
Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-Ky.) recent one-man stand against legislation extending unemployment benefits offered a high-profile airing of a popular GOP message: Deficit spending, in almost any form, will cause more harm than good to a fragile economy.

Standing in the way of the Republicans’ reasoning, however, has been another formidable group: budget experts. Most are urging additional, though temporary, deficit spending as the surest way to tackle the jobs crisis and prevent the economy from slipping back into recession. It hasn’t helped the GOP’s argument that a good number of them are fiscal conservatives.

Few observers, for example, would accuse David M. Walker of being a liberal spendthrift. Indeed, the former U.S. comptroller general has spent most of the last decade forging a personal crusade against deficit spending. Yet last week — on the same day that Bunning, a Hall of Fame baseball pitcher known more for his curveball than his economic insights, initiated his drive against fiscal imprudence — Walker wrote in Politico that “a focus on jobs now is consistent with addressing our deficit problems ahead.”

“A huge recession can yield a huge deficit,” Walker, now head of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which advocates for balanced budgets, wrote in an op-ed co-authored by Lawrence Mishel, president of the liberal Economic Policy Institute. “Though a concern, most of the recent short-term rise in the deficit is understandable. Furthermore, public spending can help compensate for the fall in private spending, and help stem the pain of substantial job losses.”

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com, agrees. Zandi, an adviser to Sen. John McCain during the Arizona Republican’s 2008 run at the White House, has urged lawmakers in recent weeks “to be aggressive” in tackling the continuing jobs crisis, which has left nearly a fifth of the nation’s working population without a job or underemployed.
“If we have another recession, we will have no policy response,” Zandi told a House panel last week. “We have to err on the side of doing too much.”

The message from the experts is clear: If you think adding $10 billion to the deficit is dangerous to future economic growth, wait ‘til you see what happens when millions of unemployed folks, denied access to a government safety net, slash their consumption (at best) and foreclose on their homes (at worst).
http://washingtonindependent.com/78288/gops-deficit-crusade-faces-opposition-from-fiscal-hawks

The only reason these Obstructionist Republicans are against Deficit spending is because they are Rich and can last out this recession during a slow recovery. That is not considering the fact that if they go back into control of Government they will do the same mindless thing all over again and destroy the economy. They are like a one trick pony, have Tax Cuts for themselves and their Rich friends while the people they treat as dirt, which is the American People suffer.  Have undisciplined Capitalism and while the Rich reap the rewards the poor suffers by their hand.
They show a total lack of compassion for the country they claim to love and they destroy bits and pieces of it everytime they are in office. We need to see them by their actions not listen to their myriad of lies. The only reason that everything that President Obama has tried has not had the results he wants is because of Republican Obstructionism and even with their mindless fighting the economy is still showing signs of recovery. Think of how much faster it would recover if the Republicans were intelligent enough to help instead of holding the process back with their Obsrtructionist tactics of screaming at everything the President does.
Now they are training armies of insurgent terrorists to form a terrorist resistance. It has already reached possibly epidemic levels of psychosis since Thom Hartmann reported on his radio program that he is not able to buy more than two boxes of ammo to go target practice as everyone is hoarding ammunition, causing the gun shops to regulate sales.