Rahm Emanuel & Tom DeLay Knew How To Get All Bipartisan When It Came To Serving The Interests Of Their Corporate Masters

Each dreamed of being Speaker someday-- one, the first Jewish Speaker, and the other, the first bug exterminator Speaker. But today neither is still in Congress. Tom DeLay, who just got word he doesn't have to go to prison, is a "consultant," professional dancer and birther, and Rahm Emanuel is the unelected co-president... of the United States.

Passage of NAFTA, the devastating job-killing trade legislation that Wall Street demanded from the politicians they finance, failed under Bush. Clinton was happy to do the dirty deed for them to prove that Democrats are as good in bed as Republicans. He assigned the task to a sleazy, largely unknown thug from the backroom, Rahm Emanuel. NAFTA has largely been credited as "Emanuel's Greatest Hit" on Wall Street and his payoff was gargantuan-- a make-work position as a "banker" for a few months that left him with $16.2 million, enough to buy himself a lot of power when he was given a rotten borough in Chicago so he could enter Congress.

Emanuel and DeLay had their hands full to pass the hated NAFTA legislation and there are plenty of legendary stories about nuts being cracked and congressmen being forced to sell out their own constituents. One, Robin Hayes (R-NC), actually broke down and wept like a little girl when DeLay told him he had to vote to destroy what was left of the Piedmont's once-booming textile industry. In the end, on that fateful day in November, 1993, 234 voted aye and only 200, overwhelmingly Democrats, of course, voted nay. Many of the corporate shills who cast their votes against American workers are still in public office-- or otherwise engaged in politics, like Tea Party organizer Dick Armey, and perpetual presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. Let me do a quick, where are they now on some of the folks who refused to stick up for American workers when push (from DeLay) came to shove (from Emanuel).

Joe Barton (R-TX)- Big Oil's highest paid House apologist
Howard Berman (D-CA)
John Boehner (R-OH) ... see below
Ken Calvert (R-CA)- still selling out his constituents at every opportunity
Mike Castle (R-DE)- big no-strings-attached Wall Street bailout engineer looking to move up to the Senate
Jim Cooper (Blue Dog-TN)- hasn't changed a bit
Duke Cunningham (R-CA)- caught, arrested, tried, sentenced and imprisoned like most of his colleagues should be
Nathan Deal (R-GA)- trying to leverage his hatred of ordinary working families into the governorship of Georgia, where that kind of things plays well
David Dreier (R-CA)- still hiding in the closet
Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)- recovering from humiliating rejection by Michigan voters
Steny Hoyer (D-MD)- still having it both ways
John Kasich (R-OH)- see "Deal, Nathan," but Ohio, not Georgia
John Kyl (R-AZ)- now working under Miss McConnell in the U.S. Senate
Blanche Lambert (Blue Dog-AR)- changed her name to Lincoln, but still one of the worst corporate shills in Congress, though now the Senate
Jerry Lewis (R-CA)- still counting on a meth-amphetimine explosion in his district to keep the voters too dumb to stop him from robbing them blind
Bill McCollum (R-FL)- see "Deal, Nathan," but Florida, not Georgia...

You get the picture. Or one part of it. And there's more, because the little kiss of death from Clinton, Bush, Emanuel and DeLay just keeps right on destroying America from within. Turns out of the 25 companies with the highest layoffs during the current recession, 18 are major outsourcers.

1. General Motors, 107,357, outsourcer
2. Citigroup, 73,056 , outsourcer
3. Hewlett-Packard, 47,540, outsourcer
4. Circuit City Stores, 41,495
5. Merrill Lynch, 40,650, outsourcer (BoA)
6. Verizon Wireless, 39,000, outsourcer
7. Pfizer, 31,771, outsourcer
8. Merck & Co., 24,400, outsourcer
9. Lehman Brothers, 23,340
10. Caterpillar, 23,024, outsourcer
11. JPMorgan Chase, 22,852, outsourcer
12. Starbucks, 21,316
13. AT&T, 18,401, outsourcer
14. Alcoa, 17,655, outsourcer
15. Dow Chemical, 17,530, outsourcer
16. DuPont, 17,000, outsourcer
17. Berkshire Hathaway, 16,900, unknown
18. Ford Motor, 15,912, outsourcer
19. KB Toys, 15,100
20. United States Postal Service, 15,000
21. DHL Express USA, 14,900
22. Sprint Nextel, 14,500, outsourcer
23. Sun Microsystems, 14,000, outsourcer
24. Boeing, 13,715, outsourcer
25. Chrysler, 13,672, outsourcer

As you can see, there are many Tech companies on the list, when supposedly the recession was about finance and real estate. Some of these companies have reported record profits, most are reasonably healthy.

Caterpillar literally demanded U.S. taxpayer dollars, in the form of Stimulus, all the while firing Americans and offshore outsourcing jobs.

So, while the blame continues to focus on the housing market and financial Armageddon, it appears we have the same issues that were the cause of the 2001 recession, global labor arbitrage with corporations offshore outsourcing, moving manufacturing abroad as well as the profits.

Justin Coussoule in the ex-West Point cadet and U.S. Army captain who is giving Boehner his first competitive race ever. He's calling him on his hypocrisy right inside the district and explaining Boehner's voting record and how it relates to the economic conditions we find ourselves in:

As John Boehner travels the country on a 17-state tour, raising millions in campaign contributions from his corporate pals and super-rich golfing buddies (good luck actually finding him in the district the taxpayers pay him to represent), he continues to ask "Where are the jobs Mr. President?" All the while, sputtering the tired talk-points of more tax cuts for the rich and less investment in our children, alternative energy, and every other common-sense approach to building a strong and sustainable economy. Apparently, Mr. Boehner has a case of selective memory. Since Boehner voted for NAFTA in 1993 and championed the virtues of "free trade," our country has shed millions of good paying, middle-class manufacturing jobs-- the jobs that once formed the backbone of our economy and the middle-class. And in just the last ten years, Boehner's home state of Ohio has lost over 250,000 manufacturing jobs, 5% of its work-force. So many Ohioans are now unemployed or underemployed that they can no longer afford the few products that are still made in the USA, thus the vicious cycle of economic decline. Our families' hard-earned dollars flow to China and our own once-proud manufacturing sector has been brought to its knees by misguided, out-of-touch politicians like John Boehner. Leaving Ohioans wondering who is left to fight for them, and asking, "Where are the jobs, Mr. Boehner?"