{"id":5108,"date":"2011-06-15T02:10:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T09:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5108"},"modified":"2011-06-15T02:10:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T09:10:04","slug":"progressive-democrats-going-on-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/progressive-democrats-going-on-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Democrats Going on Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the JOBS, stupid!  Republicans won their spectacular success in last year\u2019s elections by promising jobs, jobs, jobs.  Since they took control of the House, they have focused on everything but jobs, offering only the policies that caused the Republican recession that cost the jobs of so many.  Fighting this Machiavellian Republican agenda has dominated Congress and therefore, media.  Finally someone is taking the lead on jobs.  The Democrats in the Congressional Progressive Caucus are going on tour to talk about jobs.  It\u2019s the JOBS, stupid!<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"15tour\"Republicans have pulled off a neat trick since taking over the House back in January — they’ve repeatedly attacked President Obama on the languishing job market while shifting government focus away from job creation<\/strong> and toward the deficit and debt.<\/p>\n

Now, the House Progressive Caucus is planning to turn the government’s attention back toward eliminating unemployment. Starting Wednesday, caucus members will fan out across the country on a summer tour that will attempt to push the focus away from spending reduction and toward using government resources to create jobs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

"The media and the right wing and, of course, some Democrats have been talking about intangibles like the debt ceiling or the job picture," Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) told TPM in an interview previewing the announcement. "We wanted to do a tour that really talks about what matters to people<\/strong>."<\/p>\n

To Grijalva and the CPC that means discussing a government that makes "a commitment to the middle class" and pushes for an economic package that focuses on middle and working class people — "not just the wealthy and not just the CEOs," Grijalva said.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the CPC put forward their own federal budget proposal<\/a> that raises taxes on the rich and corporations (as well as ends the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) and plows the increased revenues into new education, health care and other middle class-focused domestic spending\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Common Dreams<\/a>><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s their video.<\/font><\/p>\n