Dems Rip Eric Cantor For Secret Plot To Make Obama Own Economy
House Dems are tearing into the GOP leadership over my post below reporting that Republicans had put in place a concerted strategy to make sure that Obama owns the economy. House Dem leadership aide Doug Thornell emails:
This confirms what we thought the entire Republican brain trust has been up to for six months — nothing. When you are suffering embarrassingly low poll numbers, maybe it’s time to come up with some ideas instead of playing `gotcha’ games.
Thornell also argues that today’s Washington Post poll, which contains some bad news for Obama also has plenty of it for Republicans, too. The internals show that Bush still owns the economy, with nearly twice as many blaming Bush (62%) than blame Obama (32%) for the country’s economic situation.
What’s more, the poll also finds that voters trust Obama over the GOP to handle the economy, health care, and the deficit by lopsided margins. Indeed, as Matthew Yglesias notes, some of the numbers might make Congressional Dems more inclined, rather than less, to get behind Obama’s agenda. Of course, that’s presuming those Dems don’t just rely on headlines and the cable nets for their grasp of public opinion.
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OT, but does it look to anyone else like the WH is no longer gonna sit back and let the GOP throw bombs. Looks like they are gonna fight back. Between the Arizona GOP trying to beat up the stimulus and the WH bascially telling Arizona if you don’t want the money, then we’ll gladly give it elsewhere, but here’s what you’ll be giving up…
To Obama being more upfront on Health Care.
To the Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack setting Drudge straight after Drudge leads with a list of millions of dollars in food items included in the stimulus
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0709/Vilsack_responds_to_Drudge.html
To just today, when Obama responded to DeMint’s “waterloo” comment on Healthcare. Obama to DeMint: (”Waterloo”) “Think about that. This isn’t about me. This isn’t about politics. This is about a health care system that is breaking American families.”
I think that the earlier calls for Bi-partinship that led to GOP being “party of no” has given the WH wiggle room to respond to attacks without yet being accused of partisan bickering.
I wanted to shaare this tweet from @johnathansinger
Interesting spin, Greg. Did you see question 11?
11. Would you say you, yourself are better off financially than you were in when Obama became president, not as well off, or in about the same shape as then financially?
Better off: 8
Not as well off: 27
That’s worse than any of the previous four presidents at any point in their terms. Some might say this is a reflection of Bush’s policies – but I would view it as rather worrisome. Note also that the poll seems to undersample both Dems and Repubs and oversamples Inds.
The recession strictly defined is ending about now, and some on Wall St. are predicting a strong snapback. So why not take ownership of the economy?
Greg~
There goes sbj…you know it is always “spin” when it is not something he agrees with, but yet the links that he posts here from Weekly Standard et al. are not spin…that is “good old fashion political analysis”, because he is right, right, right about Republicans being the ones that the American people will turn to, right I tell you, can’t you hear me…Republicans will come in to save the future of the American economy, don’t mind the fact that they have destroyed the economy over the last eight years (blew through a 5.7 trillion dollar surplus they inherited from Clinton, 1.35 trillion $ tax cut for the rich while fighting two wars etc.)…they are the ones that will save the day…can’t you people see that…President Obama has been at this for a very long six months and now that he has utterly failed to fix in six months what they destroyed in eight years, they know that the American People will once again turn to them, the trusted Republican Party to turn this thing around!!!
Here is something I found ironic. All through out the campaign and leading up to the election the wingnuts kept saying over and over that Obama supporters were believing in fairy tales and that we thought Obama walked on water. Now six months into an Obama adminstration because Obama hasn’t cleaned up the mess from 8 years of Republican rule those same wingnuts want everyone to be mad like he had a magic wand or dare I say, could walk on water and he SHOULD have been able to just turn off unemployment, foreclosures, and a financial crisis with the snap of his fingers. What a frikkin joke.
So, Obama owns the economy but no matter what, it’ll always be Bush’s recession. tehee
Yeah and if he rams another “stimulus” package through like Krugman wants and overspends enough, he’ll get to own a deepening recession and perhaps even a depression. Which would you rather own?
As I’ve mentioned:
The reality is that the Republican 2007 Great Recession is something that we’re all going to be stuck with for years to come, especially with Republicans deliberately sabotaging attempts at fixing the economy.