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With only 7 legislative days left until House Republicans head out on a five week recess, yesterday the GOP held vote after vote after vote to rename ten post offices and courthouses and today will waste taxpayer dollars with more of their trademark bills to nowhere.  The middle class has noticed:

As he makes the rounds today, Speaker Boehner will continue pointing fingers and blustering about the middle class until he is red in the face.  But his salty language still won't hide GOP's record of punishing middle class families, and they have a message for the Speaker: start with the man in the mirror and ask him to change his ways.

Middle Class Wants Jobs & Economic Growth

Today, Speaker Boehner had no shortage of @#$%^ language as he spewed false claims about President Obama's record standing up for middle class families:

The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to unrestricted special interest money secretly influencing campaigns around the country.  But, as the latest poll from the First Amendment Center shows, Americans want those floodgates firmly shut:

While House Democrats are working on a "Make It In America" strategy to create jobs right here in the United States for American workers, Republicans have blocked efforts to clamp down on tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas.

During the 2000s, U.S. multinational companies cut their work forces in the U.S. by 2.9 million while increasing employment overseas by 2.4 million.  [Wall Street Journal, 4/19/11] Yet in the last 18 months, Republicans have voted 13 times:

Today, Republican leaders will huddle with former Vice President Dick Cheney to solicit his thoughts on the budget. Recall, Cheney was the architect of the irresponsible, deficit-busting Bush tax cuts. The Democratic Leader's press office released this video today to remind the American public why Cheney's advice should be considered with a grain of salt:

According to a new poll from the Pew Research Center, Americans believe that providing a tax cut to 98 percent of Americans and ending the Bush tax cuts for the richest 2 percent is fair and will help the economy.

Speaker John Boehner and Congressional Republicans love paying lip service to tax cuts for the middle class.  Actually delivering tax cuts to the middle class?  Think again.  Here's the state of play:

Republicans are holding tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans hostage to unnecessary and expensive tax breaks for the top 2 percent.