Brett Guthrie is a Moron

Worse than a moron, he's a corporate lickspittle who thinks every voter in Kentucky's Second District is so bone-fucking stupid we'll swallow all the lies he tells.

From his latest constituent email:

Last week the Department of Labor announced that Kentucky’s unemployment rate fell below 10%. While there were mixed reactions to this news, I stand firm that we must do a better job to get our economy back on track.

This from the Koch-sucker who has spent the last two-and-a-half years voting against every single plan to create jobs and "get our economy back on track." Yes, he's "standing firm," but it's against jobs, not for them.

I have been working with leadership in the House to draft a pro-growth plan to get our economy moving in the right direction. This plan focuses on curtailing overreaching regulations, reducing the tax burden, starting a real a national energy plan, and cutting spending.

It's a four-fer! Everything he recommends will work splendidly to kill more jobs, further undermine the middle class and continue to destroy the U.S. economy.

"Curtailing regulations" - like repealing Glass-Steagall, which cut the leash on Wall Street speculators and led directly to financial arson that brought the economy to its knees.

"Reducing the tax burden" - like Smirky/Darth did in 2001, transforming a $1 trillion surplus into a $3 trillion deficit and leaving the economy too weak to respond to the 2008 recesssion.

"Starting a real national energy plan" - like every other repug "energy plan," which is nothing of the kind, but merely more trillions of dollars in subsidies to oil, coal and gas companies that are already obese from obscene profits.

"Cutting spending" - like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Guthrie voted for all of the repug plans to kill them, as well as the budget plans to kill spending on highways, schools, police, firefighters, water treatment and disaster relief and so much more. Governor Beshear has requested disaster relief funding from President Obama to help tens of thousands of eastern Kentuckians left homeless by last week's torrential rains and floods, but Brett Guthrie would rather give that money to the already filthy rich, who are never left homeless by anything.

The first step is that is we must not do additional harm. Job creation is not going to come from Washington but bureaucrats in the nation’s capitol can certainly create obstacles to job creators. In recent years the regulatory burden from Washington has stifled our businesses, both big and small. I hear this from small business owners, manufacturers and farmers weekly when I am traveling around Kentucky. One of the top priorities for the 112th Congress has been to empower the committees to put a halt to the over-regulation coming from the unelected officials within the Administration. In addition, we need to pass the REINS Act. This legislation, which was introduced by my Kentucky colleague, Rep. Geoff Davis, ensures congressional review and approval of any government regulations that has an impact on the economy, especially on small businesses.

For two and a half years, corporations in this country have sat on trillions of dollars in profits, refusing to create a single job. Wall Street has sat on trillions of dollars in profits, refusing to lend a single dime to small businesses who want to create jobs but can't because Big Banking won't let them. Slashed spending committed by repugs since 2001 has left state governments forced to lay off public employees, vastly increasing unemployment. That leaves the federal government as the employer of last resort - except that lying morons like Brett Guthrie refuse to allow the stimulus plan the nation desperately needs.

Regulations are what protect consumers and small businesses and community banks and local governments from the depredations of Big Business and Big Business from the consequences of its own folly. To say regulations hurt business is to say police departments cause crime.

Second, we must lower the tax burden on job creators. Whether we like it or not, we live in a global economy. We are now competing with many more countries in the global marketplace than we were ten years ago. Unfortunately, we are at a serious disadvantage because the United States has one of the highest tax rates in the developed world. There is no question that our U.S. workers make the best products and can compete, but only if the playing field is level and they are given opportunity. Furthermore, we must open the doors to more overseas markets for our farmers.

No mention of actual tax rates, of course. That's because wealthy people in this country - and by that I mean everyone earning more than $400,000 per year, which is eight times the median family income - currently pays the lowest tax rates in more than 80 years. When the Depression hit in 1929, the rich paid virtually nothing in taxes. Low tax rates didn't stop 25 million jobs from disappearing. For 80 years, strong economic growth has always - always - correlated with high tax rates.

Third, we must end our dependence on foreign energy. Every day we send far too much money to unstable places half-way around the world. Instead, we need to develop American energy sources. I worked hard last year to earn a seat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee so I could help push this agenda. To date, our committee has completed legislation to fix the permitting process that environmental activists have used to halt offshore oil exploration, and we have passed a bill to stop President Obama’s backdoor plan to impose cap-and-trade by regulation.

Wrong again! We must end our dependence on fossil fuels - oil, natural gas and coal. There is no such thing as "foreign energy." All fossil fuels - oil especially but the others also - is traded on global markets. Go to your local gas station and tell them you want American gas, made from oil pumped right here at home. No such thing.

Ending our dependence on fossil fuels means just that: genuine renewable energy from sun, wind and geothermal (not fake "clean coal" and not energy-wasting ethanol.) But every proposal to increase renewable energy has been voted down by Brett Guthrie and the rest of the congressional repugs.

Finally and most importantly, we must cut federal spending. Federal spending is not going to get us out of this economic slowdown. Just look at the results of the bloated stimulus bill as evidence. We cannot continue to saddle future generations with mounting debt. We have an opportunity later this summer when debate begins on raising the debt limit to send a clear message that the days of borrowing and spending are over.

Even more wrong! The 2009 stimulus was the only thing that kept the economy from sliding into a Great Depression that would make old-timers long for the hobo camps and bread lines of 1931. The only reason the economy is not recovering as it should is that Brett Guthrie and his fellow repugs rejected the needed $2 trillion stimulus that was 90 percent job creation, forcing a $750 billion stimulus that was 50 percent destructive tax cuts.

In closing, it is time to put politics aside and focus on what is best for our nation. We owe it to all Kentuckians who want to get back to work, we owe it to the recent college graduates who are anxious to start their careers and we owe it to our next generation to leave them with less debt and more opportunities.

Strike Four and You're Out! "Put politics aside?" Are you fucking kidding me? Since January 20, 2009, Brett Guthrie and his fellow repugs have done nothing - nothing - but stand in the way of everything President Obama and congressional democrats have tried to do to create jobs and restore the economy. They have worked tirelessly to destroy That Ni**er in the White House, and will do whatever it takes to destroy him, even if they have to burn the nation to the ground.

You're a lying motherfucking moron, Brett Guthrie, and instead of sending out emails full of destructive lies, you should crawl away in shame.