5 Obama Successes Republicans Have To Pretend Never Happened
National Memo
5 Obama Successes Republicans Have To Pretend Never Happened
Republicans have consistently said that a president cannot take responsibility for a strong economy — unless of course he’s a Republican.
A weak economy, however, is always a Democratic president’s fault. And if a Republican president presides over the worst financial crisis in a half-century after seven years in office, that is clearly the fault of poor people.
President Obama is in an awkward position when it comes to the economy. It’s only great if you compare it to the last 14 years. But with 50 percent of America now saying in the latest CNN poll that his presidency is a success, he figures that he’s now allowed to “take a well-earned victory lap” by answering the question Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) asked for four years: “Where are the jobs?”
-ed-
A sensible media would be debating which of Obama’s two great accomplishments — the stimulus or the Affordable Care Act — is a bigger success; ...
But conservatives won’t let that happen. They’ll focus on metrics that languished before Obama came into office — we’re very concerned about labor force participation all of a sudden! — and blast him for not solving all of the failures of conservative economics and foreign policies.
America should be used to Democratic presidents outperforming Republicans by now. While no administration is perfect, President Obama has staked strong claims for liberal values and policies that prove things Republicans have to pretend never happened. http://www.nationalmemo.com/5-ways-democratic-presidents-kick-republican-butt/
1. Proved trickle-down economics are wrong, again
...
2. Proved we can expand health insurance coverage and shrink the deficit.
...
3. Proved that the government can kick-start a clean-energy revolution.
...
4. Proved we can regulate Wall Street without killing the stock market.
...
5. Proved that we should give diplomacy a chance.
...
Despite these successes, Republicans have to see Obama as a floundering, economy-shrinking, deficit-creating failure, or risk questioning their failed worldview.
Essentially, they have to pretend he’s Bobby Jindal.
More
http://www.nationalmemo.com/5-obama-successes-republicans-have-to-pretend-never-happened/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=MM_frequency_six&utm_campaign=Morning%20Memo%20-%202015-03-23
