{"id":5671,"date":"2011-08-23T00:33:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T07:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5671"},"modified":"2011-08-23T00:33:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T07:33:47","slug":"republican-favors-racism-over-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/23\/republican-favors-racism-over-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Favors Racism Over Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Republicans ran for office in 2010, their mantra was jobs, jobs, jobs.  Since then their only offerings they claim is jobs related is taking from the poor and middle classes to give yet another tax cut to millionaires, billionaires and corporate criminals.  Republicans had planned a jobs agenda in the House Judiciary Committee this fall, but have cancelled it to pursue a racist agenda.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"23Smith\"<\/a>On Thursday, Roll Call reported<\/a> that Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) was planning to use his House Judiciary Committee gavel this fall to promote a "jobs agenda." This would represent a significant shift for a committee that has largely<\/a> been focused<\/a> on radical attacks<\/a> on undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n

But later that day, the Obama administration announced that it would begin reviewing the cases of the 300,000 illegal immigrants currently awaiting deportation and prioritize the expulsion of the more dangerous criminal violators, rather than targeting low-level immigration offenders for deportation. <\/p>\n

Smith quickly abandoned his "jobs agenda," telling right-wing radio host Joe Pagliarulo that he was now planning to hold hearings on the subject with the avowed purpose of trying to "embarrass the President."<\/strong> Smith also suggested that the House Appropriations Committee would defund the administration’s ability to implement their plan\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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For Republicans, deporting brown people is too important to allow something as petty as jobs for American workers to interfere.  The only way to get them to care about jobs is to take their jobs away.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Republicans ran for office in 2010, their mantra was jobs, jobs, jobs.  Since then their only offerings they claim is jobs related is taking from the poor and middle classes to give yet another tax cut to millionaires, billionaires and corporate criminals.  Republicans had planned a jobs agenda in the House Judiciary Committee this […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}