Platitude Defined: A platitude is a trite, meaningless, biased, or prosaic statement, often presented as if it were significant and original; is often—but not always—shallow and without real meaning!
Now, should I be proven wrong and the GOP steps up to the plate with actual factual data to support and/or succeeds in accomplishing significant verifiable movement on any of the issues listed below I STAND prepared to be corrected.
In the course of time additions will be made to this list and during this same period addendum will be made to factually demonstrate exactly why this list of GOP statements are nothing but Platitudes.
Representative Eric Cantor:
"We will also identify & eliminate job-killing regulations that are impeding capital formation in America"
"Over the coming weeks we will pass a repeal of last year’s health care bill to remove the strain on job creators"
"The new Majority will be about “cut-and-grow": cut spending & job-killing government regulations, grow the economy & private-sector jobs"
"Our new Majority stands for a different, better way: a government that controls less & spends less, but accomplishes more"
Representative Mike Pence:
"To use money from the TARP fund in the manner that is being discussed by the White House and congressional Democrats would be a violation of the law."
Under the Democratic health plan, families "will be forced to spend an additional $2,100 a year to keep their current health care."
fretting "the idea that you would raise taxes on small businesses owners and job creators in the middle of this recession doesn't make any sense."
“And no single policy is having a greater effect on hindering job creation than the possibility of a tax increase in January.
"The Democrats propose "a government-controlled health care plan that will deprive roughly 120 million Americans of their current health care coverage."
“Higher taxes won't get anybody hired. Raising taxes on job creators won't create jobs. And House Republicans will stand united to oppose any tax increase on any American in January.”
"Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues."
"Should Democrats get their way, every income tax bracket will increase on Jan. 1, 2011. Every single one."
"This administration and this Congress have been systematically cutting funding to border security since the Democrats took control."
"The stimulus has "$30 million in there to protect mice in San Francisco."
GOP House Speaker John Boehner:
"The American people have sent an unmistakable message, change course"
"The Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act"
"Forcing Americans off of their current health coverage and onto a government-run plan isn't the answer, but that's exactly what the Democrats' plan would do."
"The American people spoke pretty loudly. They said stop all the looming tax hikes...."
"It’s gotten to a point where the average federal worker makes twice as much as the average private sector worker."
Senate health care legislation will "levy a new 'abortion premium' fee on Americans in the government-run plan."
The Democrat-backed health care reform plan "will require (Americans) to subsidize abortion with their hard-earned tax dollars."
On Fannie and Freddie mac and the financial crisis: "[H]ow you can attempt to fix it without going to the root of the problem, Fannie Fae and Freddie Mac, is really beyond me,"
"Democrats Reaffirm Commitment to Impose Job-Killing Tax Hike on Small Businesses"
"The (economic stimulus) legislation could open billions of taxpayer dollars to left-wing groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)."
Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.
Senator Mitch McConnell:
New financial regulation "actually guarantees future bailouts of Wall Street banks."
"In just one month, the Democrats have spent more than President Bush spent in seven years on the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina combined."
General GOP Mantras:
“work on jobs and the economy,”
“stop out-of-control spending,”
“we have to keep America free, safe and sovereign.”
“The budget is a radical proposal that will change the character of our nation, trampling on freedom and liberty.”
“The only approach that has not been tried is the conservative approach – limited bureaucracy, lower taxes, and responsible regulatory structures.”
“The administration is disingenuous, unfocused, and reckless.”
"Over $800 billion in stimulus spending that hasn't worked"
"Using TARP funds to cherry-pick which banks survive and which don't"
"9.7% unemployment when Obama promised it wouldn't go above 8%"
"Bypassing federal bankruptcy laws and regulations to take over GM and Chrysler - using taxpayer money'
"A "pay czar" deciding how much corporate executives can earn"
"Almost three million jobs lost since Obama took office - when he promised to add four million by the end of 2010"
"Passage of a health care bill against the majority will of the American people - many states are now challenging the bill as unconstitutional"
"A slow and incompetent response to the Gulf oil spill - still leaking thousands of gallons a day over 70 days later"
"Obama's deep water oil drilling ban will cost thousands of American jobs"
"Failure to secure our Southern borders while suing Arizona for trying to protect its citizens"
"A national debt increase of almost $3 trillion since Obama took office"
"A federal debt that will represent 62% of the nation's economy by 2011 - with estimates of 100% in ten to fifteen years"
"Pending cap and trade legislation laced with energy cost and job loss issues"
"Democrats pushing a financial regulation reform bill that protects financial firms and ultimately hurts consumers - also being challenged as unconstitutional"
"Democrats became the first House majority that failed to pass an annual budget resolution since the Congressional Budget Act was adopted in 1974"
Democrat tax increases slated for 2011 that will further harm taxpayers, the economy and job growth"
"Numerous pay-to-play political scandals"
"Obama's promise not to raise taxes on those making less than $250 thousand - already broken"
"A weak and dangerous foreign and domestic terrorism policy"
"Cut government spending to pre-stimulus, prebailout levels saving at least $100 billion in the first year alone"
