<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Courtesy of The New Yorker at:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/Obama-Motive-for-Fixing-Econ">http://tinyurl.com/Obama-Motive-for-Fixing-Econ</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h1 itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: all 0.3s ease-out; -webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-out; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 3.8rem; font-size: 3rem; font-family: ny-irvin-heading, 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif;">Republicans Question Obama’s Motives for Fixing Economy</h1><p word_count="35" style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">WASHINGTON (<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Borowitz Report</a>) —Two days after the release of an unusually strong jobs report, prominent Republicans appeared on the Sunday morning talk shows to question President Obama’s “suspicious motives” for repairing the economy.</span></p><p word_count="46" style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“When there have been so many months of job growth, it does make you wonder what he’s up to,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). “You add in the rising stock market and falling gas prices, and the whole thing doesn’t pass the smell test.”</span></p><p word_count="22" style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Appearing on Fox News, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell accused the President of “cynically fixing the economy to distract the American people.”</span></p><p word_count="22" style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“This country faces serious problems, and I don’t think they can be swept under the rug by creating prosperity,” he said.</span></p><p word_count="28" style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But the sternest rebuke came from House Speaker John Boehner, who warned, “If President Obama doesn’t stop fixing the economy, Congress has ways to make him stop.”</span></p><p word_count="29" style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“If the President thinks he can fool the American people by putting them back to work and raising their wages, he’s headed for a rude awakening,” he said.</span></p></div><div>--------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div>"You shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln</div></body></html>