Senator Obstruction, Jon Kyl, thinks Americans are lazy dirty effin’ hippies

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Last week I told you about the fraudulent GOP attacks on President Obama for allegedly calling Americans “lazy” at the APEC Summit. The death of truth: ‘lazy’ lying Tea-Publicans. He did not, of course. It is a GOP lie.

In fact, it is Tea-Publicans who regularly portray Americans as “lazy.” Just in the past month, the “Herminator” Herman Cain has said to the protesters of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, “Go home and get a job and a life.” The Minnesota Loon, Michele Bachmann, has said “Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. Self reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither should he eat.” And Newt Gingrich, our “preeminent housing historian,” recently said that Occupy Wall Street protesters should “Go get a job right after you take a bath.”

And who can forget this gem from our own Senator Obstruction, Jon Kyl, from last year when he was obstructing the extension of unemployment benefits to get his way on Sen. Kyl’s Paris Hilton Amendment (eliminating the estate tax), Senator Obstruction, Jon Kyl, thinks the unemployed are just lazy:

Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Republican whip, argued that unemployment benefits dissuade people from job-hunting “because people are being paid even though they’re not working.”

Unemployment insurance “doesn’t create new jobs. In fact, if anything, continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work,” Kyl said during debate over whether unemployment insurance and other benefits that expired amid GOP objections Sunday should be extended.

“I’m sure most of them would like work and probably have tried to seek it, but you can’t argue that it’s a job enhancer. If anything, as I said, it’s a disincentive. And the same thing with the COBRA extension and the other extensions here,” said Kyl.

On Sunday, Senator Obstruction was a guest on Meet the Press Gregory. David Gregory asked Senator Obstruction what he thought of GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s statement that the Occupy Wall Street protesters should “Go get a job right after you take a bath” and Kyl wasn’t willing to put an ounce of daylight between his views and those of the former Speaker of the House. Jon Kyl Expresses Support for Gingrich’s Statement Telling #OWS Protesters to Get a Job and Bathe:

Here he is doing his best Ayn Rand imitation talking about the “wealth producers” and going on to blame Democrats for the gridlock we’ve seen in Washington DC caused by Republican obstruction, which was naturally left unchallenged by host David Gregory. Heaven he might have reminded him of the record number of filibusters we’ve seen from Republicans in the Senate.

GREGORY: I want to ask you this. The Occupy Wall Street movement and protests around the country have become a political issue. And as we talk about income inequality, we talk about America’s debt, this was the scene in Northern California at UC Davis. Pepper spray being used on protesters. Newt Gingrich was very critical of this movement. I want to play something that he said and ask for your view on it. This was Newt Gingrich in Iowa.

(Videotape, last night)

GINGRICH: All of the Occupy movement starts with the premise that we all owe them everything. They take over a public park they didn’t pay for, to go nearby to use bathrooms they didn’t pay for, to beg for food from places they don’t want to pay for, to obstruct those who are going to work to pay the taxes. Now, that is a pretty good symptom of how much the left has collapsed as a moral system in this country and why you need to reassert something as simple as saying to them, “Go get a job right after you take a bath.”

(End videotape)

GREGORY: Do you agree with that?

KYL: Well, I think it expresses the, the attitude of a lot of these folks who somehow think money grows on trees and they’re entitled to it. And they don’t understand how wealth is produced in this country. It’s produced by people who work and who invest, who take a risk in a small business, for example. They hire people, and that produces wealth to the government that they can then take advantage of. But it doesn’t seem to me they have adequate appreciation of how our free market system works to produce the wealth that’s really made us the envy of the world.

GREGORY: You’re retiring from the Senate. Are you embarrassed at what Congress has been unable to do on the toughest issues facing this country and this government?

KYL: The frustration of the American people at our inability to tackle these tough problems is very real, and I absolutely agree with that frustration. It is–their representatives in Congress ought to do a better job than Congress has been, been able to do. And I’ll just go back to this: When our democratic friends are unable to cut even $1 in spending without saying it has to be accompanied by tax increases, I think that tells you all you need to know about our runaway spending.

GREGORY: All right, we’re going to leave it there. Senator Kyl, thank you very much.

I would like to see one of the news channels in Phoenix, maybe Brahm Resnick at Channel 12, challenge Senator Obstruction to spend his Thanksgiving Day volunteering at one of the community food banks in the Phoenix metro area feeding people for Thanksgiving. Senator Obstruction will learn that many of them do in fact have a job, maybe even two or three jobs, that pay a subsistence wage. They are barely getting by while Senator Obstruction worries about the plight of idle rich kids being subject to the estate tax. I am sooo looking forward to the day when he is unemployed from Congress. What an asshole.