24 Policies That Republicans Supported BEFORE They Were Against Them

[jaxx]

24 Policies That Republicans Supported BEFORE They Were Against Them
April 24, 2012
By Stephen D. Foster Jr.

Since President Obama took the oath of office in January 2009, Republicans have reversed their stances on many different policies and beliefs. Here are 24 of them.

1. Health Care Mandates) Prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act by Democrats, Republicans widely supported the idea of an individual health care insurance mandate, Newt Gingrich being perhaps the chief supporter. Republicans have always preached about how people need to take responsibility for themselves, and now that a law exists that makes people take responsibility, the GOP is rejecting it simply on the grounds that President Obama and the Democrats passed it.

2. The Nuclear START Treaty) Republicans shamelessly filibustered the ratification of the Obama START Treaty for quite a period of time and criticized it tremendously and continue to try and find ways to circumvent the treaty today. What Republicans conveniently forget is that Ronald Reagan, the man that Republicans worship like a God, negotiated the very first START Treaty which was signed by yet another Republican, George H. W. Bush in 1991. That treaty expired in 2009 so President Obama negotiated a new one to continue the Reagan legacy. But since President Obama negotiated this treaty, Republicans retreated from Reagan’s policy faster than the decade it took to create the START Treaty in the first place.

<..> 15. Women’s Rights) The women’s rights movement was born in and grew with the Republican Party in the mid 1800′s. Many Republicans supported voting rights for women although to pass the 19th Amendment it took women threatening to cause Republican losses in the 1920 Election to persuade them to help pass it in Congress. As women gained more equality, they also demanded equal pay for equal work and reproductive rights. Ronald Reagan legalized abortion as Governor of California in the 1960′s and a moderate conservative Supreme Court handed down the Roe v Wade decision in 1973. Today’s Republican Party is now waging a war against women and the harder Democrats and President Obama fight for women’s rights, the harder Republicans will fight to eliminate them because of orders from white Christian extremists.

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Looks to me like the whole damned GOP has played Etch-a-Sketch and let the teabaggers make hypocrites of them.

[Andy823]

(04-25-2012 09:47 AM)jaxx Wrote:  Looks to me like the whole damned GOP has played Etch-a-Sketch and let the teabaggers make hypocrites of them.

Yes, that and they just can't bring themselves to agree with anything the president is for, no matter who much they liked it in the past!

The good thing is all the catering to the teabaggers is going to come back and bite them in the butt big time come November. They took the house in 2010 because they "promised" the number on agenda would be JOBS, JOBS, and more JOBS, and once elected they did nothing at all to create JOBS, all they did was fight the president on everything he wanted, and do their best to try and keep the economy down so they could use it against the president in the elections, but to their surprise it isn't working and the economy is getting better. Now they have to live with the fact that they not only didn't help themselves, but they ended up looking like a bunch of school kids who if they didn't get their way, they would take their ball and go home.

The majority of americans will voice their anger at republicans in November, along with the teabaggers who have proved to me a huge pain in the ass to the GOP!

[Brewman_Jax]

Good grief! They'd argue that the sky isn't blue just because Pres. Obama said it was.