What Balls They Have! GOP claims credit for last years economic growth.

These jerkwads just took possession of the House this month and yet to listen to them tell it, the Party of No can claim THEY are the ones that 'did it all' when it comes to last years small but significant economic/job growth. The GOP, who refused to support anything that was put forth in the 111th Congress, except for the Tax Cuts from Hell in the lame duck session in December, have the nads to grab credit for Obama's hard earned work. From MediaMatters' site, PoliticalCorrection.Org(emphasis and links all theirs):

Appearing on Fox News' Happening Now, House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-CA) credited "positive numbers" on the economy to House Republicans' newly held majority status and their pursuit of "pro-growth policies." 

 REP. DREIER: The notion that many pundits and people on some of those other cable channels throw out regularly that we want to bring an end to health care for people is just preposterous. We are determined to ensure that with a market-oriented approach we can have the kind of chance for people to have access to insurance and we can get our economy growing. And we've gotten some positive numbers. I think it's in large part because we won our majority and we're pursuing pro-growth policies. I think we can make it happen.

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Dreier didn't specify which "positive numbers" he's been looking at, but perhaps it was the January 7th release of BLS's December 2010 unemployment rate, which at 9.4% was the lowest it's been since May 2009. Or maybe he's referring to the addition of over 100,000 private sector jobs in December alone.

It's hard to understand how Dreier can justify giving the not-yet-implemented policies of the House Republican majority credit for economic growth that occurred when both houses of Congress were dominated by Democrats, but apparently this is a strategy Republicans have decided to embrace. ThinkProgress caught Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) pulling a similar maneuver. Calling the Obama administration "highly anti-business," Kyl credited the December extension of the Bush tax cuts for private-sector business growth that had occurred in the 11 months prior to the passage of the extension.

One 'positive number' you probably won't find Kyl or Dreier slinging around is the addition of over 1.1 million private sector jobs since health care reform became law.

It's fucking amazing ain't it??? These bastards have no friggin shame...they will lie, cheat and evidently..steal. They are Grifters all, and at this point..hell is too good a place for them.