Remember what Bill Clinton said about the current economy? This should be our message.

[girl gone mad]

The Republicans are already out in force trying to spin our looming economic crisis as a failure of the Democratic Congress. Due to the hideous state of our lazy corporate media, there is a chance that this meme could break through, so we need to push back hard.

This crisis is just the end game of a 30 year shift to conservative economic policies, which began in full force under the banner of the 'Reagan Revolution', and was only briefly held at bay during the Clinton years.

I think President Clinton summed it up best when he spoke at the Democratic convention last month:

...to be fair to all the Americans who aren't as hard-core Democrats as we, it's a philosophy the American people never actually had a chance to see in action fully until 2001, when the Republicans finally gained control of both the White House and the Congress.

Then we saw what would happen to America if the policies they had talked about for decades actually were implemented. And look what happened.

They took us from record surpluses to an exploding debt; from over 22 million new jobs to just 5 million; from increasing working families' incomes to nearly $7,500 a year to a decline of more than $2,000 a year; from almost 8 million Americans lifted out of poverty to more than 5.5 million driven into poverty; and millions more losing their health insurance.

Now, in spite of all this evidence, their candidate is actually promising more of the same.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_6IXjUNP84

"It's the economy, stupid."

Edited for emphasis.

[Waiting For Everyman]

1. Deregulation & everything for the top 1% - they can't get out of it.

It's too well-known to be THEM.

Gramm Gramm Gramm Gramm Gramm Gramm...

But it never hurts to reinforce the obvious anyway, because what goes unrebutted today is tomorrow's "truth". The quote you gave is perfect to use.

[Hekate]

2. kick

:kick:

[Trekologer]

3. Trickle-down economics...

It didn't work in the 80s. Its not working now. It just doesn't work.

[girl gone mad]

5. Something's been trickling down on us..

but it isn't money.

[Lugnut]

4. K&R n/t

[Odin2005]

6. Repeat it over and over:" IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!".

n/t

[annabanana]

7. (I like that pic in your post) . . . . . . n/t

[radfringe]

8. enjoy

Four More Years of Stupid: http://stone-waves.blogspot.com/2008/07/4-more-years.html

[tjwash]

9. It was...until the MSM and DU went on this "all Palin all the time" kick

Clinton beat Bush sr. on his "it's the economy stupid" campaign.

[girl gone mad]

10. Palin was overexposed.

McCain might have had a good thing if they hadn't hyped her so much. She was an outsider, exciting, unknown. Now it feels like she's been around for 20 years.