GOP ABSURDITY - GOP try to pretend they care about Poor People

http://www.alternet.org/economy/gops-absurd-hilarious-ploy-pretend-they-care-about-poor-people?akid=12689.294211.Ky2JaM&rd=1&src=newsletter1030306&t=6

Across the GOP, there’s been an outbreak of claims by party leaders and presidential candidates that Republicans deserve credit for a slow-but-steady economic recovery, and that the GOP is the emerging champion of still-struggling working Americans.
Both of these assertions are brazen falsehoods.The first of these claims, by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is the latest effort to dilute the White House's achievements; while the second—by likely 2016 candidates including Florida's ex-Gov. Jeb Bush—is another variety of political theft, all but plagarizing Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA.
Republicans like McConnell seem to believe their claims of credit for a growing sense that the economy is recovering will sway an unobservent public. They betting that people will notrecall that in 2013 the GOP-led the effort to undermine the government’s credit rating and forced a federal goverrnment shutdown that damaged the economy. That came after years of criticizing almost everything that the Obama White House tried to do to shift economic policy, from bailing out Detroit automakers to implementing Obamacare.
The proposition that Bush—whose top achievements as Florida’s governor were cutting taxes, laying off state employees and backing charter schools—is a middle-class populist is not just a mirage, but is contradicted by his first moves to raise money for 2016.
Bush is not visiting the poor house. He’s met with investment bankers and CEOs in their posh offices in New York and elsewhere, and his finance team wants to raise $100 million in 2015’s first quarter. If anything, Bush is trying to win the so-called wealth primary, just as his brother did in 1999, which helped George W. Bush lock down GOP donors and the 2000 Republican nomination.