GOP Comeback Strategy Factored in Lagging Recovery

[UpInArms]

Source: Associated Press

All but wiped out in 2008, Republicans groping for a comeback strategy determined there would be no swift return to economic health under incoming President Obama.

They soon also agreed privately to oppose his major legislation.

Over the next two years, they criticized, attacked, voted against and then attacked some more as Democrats struggled to pass an economic stimulus measure, health care legislation and a bill to rein in Wall Street. Unemployment, 7.4 percent when Obama took office, soared to 10.1 percent, then barely budged for months.

On Election Day, those calculations made in Republican suites in the Capitol reaped dividends that must have seemed almost unimaginable even to the architects of their strategy: a gain of 60-plus House seats, enough to win a majority and end two years of Democratic dominance in Congress, as well as six new seats in the Senate.

"By sticking together in principled opposition to policies we viewed as harmful, we made it perfectly clear to the American people where we stood. And we gave voters a real choice," said Mitch McConnell, the Senate's GOP leader from Kentucky. "As Democrats governed left, Republicans stood together time and again, making the case for conservative alternatives."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/06/gop-comeback-strategy-factored-lagging-recovery/

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[Mz Pip]

1. Now they have to deliver

The voters expect results. If the left wasn't happy that Obama didn't deliver fast enough then I am pretty sure the right will be even more impatient.

The Federal Government will not shrink to the size of a walnut as the Teabaggers want within the next two years - never is closer to the truth.

I suspect those who voted for "Change" in 2010 will be quite disillusioned in the next couple of years.

[fasttense]

2. Why are you posting a Fox link?

The destruction of the American economy is the way they got back into power. But it was also what forced them out. This game of destroying America, our economy and our Democracy, to gain political power will be the destruction of the GOP in the end.

[AlbertCat]

4. But it was also what forced them out

Ahhhh.... but now they can blame anything the "people" don't like in the next two years on Obama still.

And they will.... Regardless of who is really to blame (just like they did this election)

The media will dutifully report it that way and the credulous will believe it. (Just like they did this election)

But you are right in that it will eventually catch up with them. Alas! We all have to suffer in the meantime.

[ellenfl]

7. from your lips to fsm's ears. eom

[UpInArms]

11. ya know - i only noticed it was fux after posting - i saw the associated press logo

and pulled it off of google news

:blush:

please accept my apology - not up to my usual self these days

[AlbertCat]

3. By sticking together in principled opposition to policies we viewed as harmful,

Harmful to whom?

You?

or the American People?




I think we know the answer to that.

[Turborama]

5. Utter bullshit from McConnell: "No" to everything was/is the "conservative alternative" n/t

[countrydad58]

6. Traitors!

Along with a capitulating, colloborating majority= Tremendous pain & hardship for the majority of us,but the wealthy who have done quite well!

[24601]

9. That's not what treason is - and you should know it. It's the only

crime defined in the Constitution.

[armodem08]

8. Traitors indeed...

"Determined there would be no swift return to economic health under incoming President Obama."

Translation: Decided to obstruct every economic initiative Obama came up with or supported in order to exploit people's economic fears to gain their vote.

End of story.

[ThoughtCriminal]

10. Victory Through Failure

By obstructing recovery, they won. Shades of "We destroyed the village to save it."

[Turbineguy]

12. They certainly did their best

to prevent that recovery. And they were fairly successful.

[onehandle]

13. And they will take credit for the Obama recovery. nt

[savalez]

14. We knew this for the last 2 years..

This statement:

"principled opposition to policies we viewed as harmful"

Should be:

"principled opposition to policies we viewed as harmful to Republicans gaining the house"

[Frank Booth]

15. Wait, why is Fox publicizing this?

This is almost a complete admission that the Republicans have sabotaged the American economy for political gain.