Bob McDonnell: Republican Governors, Not Obama, Deserve Credit For Rising Economy

[Botany]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/05/bob-mcdonnell-republican-governors-credit-economy_n_1255994.html?ref=mostpopular

From the Department of it takes Big Balls:

Bob McDonnell: Republican Governors, Not Obama, Deserve Credit For Rising Economy

WASHINGTON -- Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said Sunday that Republican governors deserve credit for
the improving economy.

"I'm glad the economy is starting to recover, but I think it's because of what Republican governors are
doing in their states, not because of the president," McDonnell said on CNN's "State of the Union with
Candy Crowley."

McDonnell did not elaborate on what the governors have done. But he said Republican governors are
in charge of more states with positive economic conditions. "Eleven out of the top 15 states in America
that are ranked by CNBC as top places to do business are Republican states," he said. "Seven out of the
10 states that have had the biggest drop in unemployment are states run by Republican governors."

snip

"This race is coming down to three things. It's leadership, it's jobs, and it's the national debt and deficit,"
McDonnell said. "And on all of those, President Obama's failed. He spends most of his time blaming
Republicans and the Tea Party and Wall Street for all the problems in the country and not taking responsibility.
He's completely failed to get the national debt and deficit under control. He's contributed nearly $5 trillion
to the national debt with no plan to get out of it.

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Of course McDonnell did not say what he and the other republican governors have done ....

[hobbit709]

1. "Ranked by CNBC as top places to do business'

translation: best places for corporations to screw the workers.

[HughBeaumont]

3. You know, because CNBC is just so pro-worker, aren't they?

Isn't that just absolutely idiotic of him to go with that? Like anyone should give any credibility to an RNC propaganda arm like CNBC, which is pretty much a circle-jerk circus between Joe Kernen and his wealthy buddies.

[trumad]

2. Yeah---that's the new meme they are rolling out.

I imagine if the economy was in the crapper they'd keep that meme under wraps.

Douchebags.

[JoePhilly]

4. All they have done is FIRE public workers.

Clowns.

[rfranklin]

6. That's a good way to frame it...they have done nothing but create unemployment...

Just keep hammering with the numbers of people they have thrown out of work.

[HughBeaumont]

5. Uh, the jobs numbers would be BETTER if it weren't for the public sector losses.

What's this guy huffing?

[Botany]

7. Did I tell you that I take the credit for the Giants' win in the Super Bowl?

The shrimp were o.k. but my home made guacamole with the nachos
made the difference in the end.

They have no shame.

[nanabugg]

13. Public sector loses brought on by the kill-labor and unions GOP governors.

The Dems need to make an illustrating how many public sector jobs have been lost and how the numbers would be even better if those jobs had not been cut. History will show that the public sector will creep back...especially if its a GOP administration. They put a lot of political appointees in and their family members in those positions.

[Arkana]

8. Keep telling yourself that, Bobbo.

[edhopper]

9. The problem is not that these lowlifes will say anything

The problem is that the MSM will not questioned them about it. They let them get away with it and never challenge them.
At best they have a Dem on to give a he said/she said. (As Crowley did here, but she did not push McDonnell on it)

[Botany]

11. not only do they say anything but they forget about "the google" too.

How many of those republican governors were for letting the auto
industry go under?

[edhopper]

14. So obviously the folks at

CNN and the rest of the MSM can't use Google.

[marmar]

10. ........

[BootinUp]

12. and seconded by the Department of Faith Based Economics. nt

[Proud Liberal Dem]

15. Question: Did Virginia take Obama's stimulus money?

Oops. O'Donnell sure did! So, will O'Donnell credit Obama's stimulus that all of them roundly smeared (but many still pocketed) for helping? They didn't do it all on their own. Plus, O'Donnell appeared went Enron/Arthur Anderson and used a bunch of accounting tricks to make things look better.
http://mediamatters.org/research/201108250024

I wonder how many other Republican governors accepted Obama's stimulus money and/or resorted to accounting tricks to make things look better?

[Botany]

16. this graph is pretty damning

the most job losses per month was when the stimulus kicked in and
turned things around.



But still "they" keep up w/ the "stimulus failied" meme.

BTW Rick Perry used the stimulus to balance the budget in Texas.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

21. Yikes! Very damning

What's even worse is that they took stimulus funds that they publicly smeared to help them stay afloat and help repair holes in their budgets. Once again, the Republicans are failing to take responsibility for the problems they caused while claiming all the credit for things getting better while the Kenyan Socialist is in the WH. Actually, with the economy starting to noticeably improve, they've now shifted gears from saying that the economy is in awful shape and that Kenyan Socialist in the WH is making things worse to "he could've done better". Of course, they'll never really be made to answer how but still. Of course, if this comes up in debates, then Obama can simply remind Romney and the rest of the country that many Republican governors took the much derided stimulus funds that helped them shore up their states and some governors explicitly rejected money that could have been used to create jobs and infrastructure in their states (i.e. high speed rail). Whatever else you can say about the stimulus, it certainly helped staunch the bleeding that we were were experiencing at the time and I suspect helped keep things from getting worse than what they might have been.

[Botany]

23. What part of the stimulus did was to inject capital into the market @ a time when ....

.... capital was frozen. I always laugh @ "free market capitalists" who say
that government should stay out of the economy and let the market dictate
how things are going to be ...... what the stimulus did was stimulate a
capitalistic system by an injection of capital.

And don't get me started about "the debt"

[NNN0LHI]

17. Rick Perry used Obama's stimulus money to balance the Texas budget

[just1voice]

18. Virginia repukes lie about every single thing, like all repukes do

Over the last few years, they started arresting anyone who "looked like an illegal alien" in Prince William County Virginia. They arrested more than 700 people in 1 year and found 2 "illegal aliens". The Prince William County supervisor said the program was a great success in keeping "illegals" out of his county as the "illegal" population had dropped during the same year. No actual stats or information about anything was ever given, just cheers for some fake job well done.

In fact, the Hispanic population dropped in the area due to the housing collapse and shortage of jobs. That didn't stop the repukes from lying their asses off to justify their illegal racial profiling.

[mailman82]

19. If you count killing unions, screwing the poor!

So you can continue you assault on the middle class the no! Fuck Them!

[sinkingfeeling]

20. They may be the 'top places to do business', but not the ones I want to live in.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

22. I don't think that you make your states richer

by making workers poorer, less safe, less protected. Republicans don't believe that the two can co-exist peacefully. Just like they apparently think that despoiling the environment is required for a strong economy.

[gregtownsand]

24. Another fucking MORON. What a shock...

THese people on the right are so full of crap.