{"id":5005,"date":"2011-06-04T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2011-06-04T02:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T09:00:10","slug":"the-economy-may-favor-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/04\/the-economy-may-favor-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economy May Favor Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Depressing economic news this week has Republicans salivating with glee.  As we move toward the election in less than one year and a half, the worse the economy is, the the better their prospects to improve their position in 2012 becomes.  Consequently Republicans are pulling out all the stops to destabilize the economy in any way possible, as long as it allows their super rich to clean up.  The tactic Democrats must take to counter this is a simple one.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"4jobs-report\"<\/p>\n

Any notion that President Obama\u2019s reelection campaign was gaining momentum was shaken this week by a string of worrisome economic reports showing weakness in the job market and new lows for housing prices<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The bad news for Obama stood in contrast to a run of positive developments that had given many Democrats reason for confidence. The economy had been adding jobs at a steady clip<\/a>. A president once accused of being weak on national security ordered the raid that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden<\/a>. And several potentially strong Republican presidential candidates took a pass<\/a> on the race.<\/p>\n

But on Friday, a surprisingly grim employment report was a warning that Obama could face a more challenging economy than had been expected. The government said the economy had added far fewer jobs than analysts had projected<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The disappointing news posed a predicament for Obama, who had scheduled a visit to a Chrysler plant Friday to herald the rebirth of the U.S. auto industry. As he gave a celebratory speech to cheering autoworkers, his advisers in Washington scrambled to explain the jobs report.<\/p>\n

During Friday\u2019s visit to the plant in Toledo, Obama did not mention the grim jobs number that was released Friday. Rather, he talked of saving a \u201cproud industry\u201d and \u201cmore than a million jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, he acknowledged continuing challenges. \u201c[W]e still face some tough times,\u201d Obama said. \u201cThere are still some head winds that are coming at us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some political analysts said Obama would have to confront just how fierce those winds are.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe prospect of economic growth getting up to a point and unemployment getting down to a point that is comfortable for an incumbent are declining by the month, and are now not very high at all<\/strong>,\u201d said William Galston, a policy adviser in the Clinton White House and a veteran of Democratic presidential campaigns\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>] <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Obama and the Democrats have followed policies that could alleviate the situation.  When they proposed revaluing under water mortgages, Republicans blocked it.  When they proposed several different measures to give employers incentive to hire, Republicans have blocked them.<\/font><\/p>\n

What Obama and the Democrats need to do is fight, not just give up.  The need to put forward such measures again and again, vociferously complaining each time Republicans stand in the way.  In that way, voters will see that one party is trying to help, and one, to hinder.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Depressing economic news this week has Republicans salivating with glee.  As we move toward the election in less than one year and a half, the worse the economy is, the the better their prospects to improve their position in 2012 becomes.  Consequently Republicans are pulling out all the stops to destabilize the economy in any […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}