PLEDGING FAILURE

The GOP Pledge to America is nothing more than a pledge of failure.

Two days after the November 2nd elections, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the United States Senate boldly declared that making President Obama a one-term president would be his party’s top priority in the new Congress. There you have it - a pledge of failure.

Tens of millions of Americans (10% of our workforce) currently lack jobs, but the GOP's top priority is not getting those people back to work. Their top priority is adding one more person to the unemployment line.

Tens of millions of American homeowners (1 in every 5) are paying on mortgages with balances higher than the value of their homes, but the GOP's top priority is not to bring stability to the housing market. Their top priority is evicting a family living in a house with no mortgage.

Tens of millions of Americans (1 in every 7) lack health insurance and adequate access to health care, but the GOP's top priority is not working to get those people coverage. Their top priority is to oust a working President and give he and his wife health insurance coverage for life.

Tens of millions of voters (7 of every 10) are sick of partisan squabbling in Congress and want our two major political parties to compromise ideologies in working toward solutions to our nation's problems, but the GOP's top priority is not working with the President in a spirit of compromise. Their top priority is to obstruct the President effort's long enough to give them another crack at winning the presidency.

Thanks, Senator McConnell. You've explained GOP priorities in a nutshell...one failure after another.