The GOP’s Uncertainty Strategy Is Killing the Recovery

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First, do no harm. Why a Washington that does nothing is better than what we have now. By Kirsten Powers.

Published Oct. 18 2013 5:45AM EDT

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“Uncertainty is the enemy of our prosperity,” Mike Pence, then a Republican congressman from Indiana, warned in 2010.

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Back then, pleas for “economic certainty” were the Republican mantra as they fought Democratic attempts to return to Clinton-era tax rates for the wealthy.

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The GOP’s Uncertainty Strategy Is Killing the Recovery

First, do no harm. Why a Washington that does nothing is better than what we have now. By Kirsten Powers.

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