Rachel Maddow: No wonder Mitch McConnell wants credit for the economy

[kpete]

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Following up on a report from a month ago, above is a chart showing job growth by year for the four most recent presidential administrations – the blue columns point to the two Democratic administrations (darker blue for overall job growth, lighter blue for private-sector-only growth), and the red columns point to the two Republican administrations (darker red for overall job growth, lighter red for private-sector-only growth).

Notice, 2014 isn’t just an encouraging year as compared to other years in the Great Recession era; it’s actually a strong year on its own. Indeed, more jobs have been created this year than in any year of the Bush/Cheney era – or the Bush/Quayle era, for that matter.

The Clinton era is, for good reason, generally seen as the best American economic period in recent memory, and the above image certainly helps show why. But take a closer look and you’ll notice this year’s job growth is actually stronger than four of the eight Clinton years.

For Republicans, who suddenly want credit for the economy, all of this should be impossible. As far as GOP lawmakers are concerned, President Obama’s agenda of health care reform, burdensome regulations, Dodd/Frank, and the Affordable Care Act are crushing the domestic economy, stifling the job market like a “wet blanket.”



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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/no-wonder-mitch-mcconnell-wants-credit-the-economy

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[spanone]

1. K&r...

[malaise]

2. Oh yes

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026062177

The problem with them attempting to claim this as their victory is that while they were campaigning they were screaming about looking for the jobs. Indeed go back to Rmoney's campaign and he and his goons, including some big wigs at GE and NBComcast, shouted out that Obama made up the unemployment figures before that election.

Now they all want to claim them - fugg 'em

[n2doc]

3. Hell they were claiming the economy was 'terrible' just 2 months ago

Soon as the election was done, bing, magic repubs made it all go away!

Of course, waiting for the inevitable DU naysayer brigade- "Those are all terrible, mcJobs, the economy sucks!". They show up on every economic thread...

[malaise]

5. 3...2...1

They'll come swarming soon

[Gothmog]

4. These are great numbers

[NewJeffCT]

6. I said this on Kos the other day - but

why do you think Infrastructure Spending is suddenly back on the table after being verboten for the previous 5 years? If a nice package passes and hiring takes off (and revenues rise federally and for the states), it will be just in time for Republicans to take credit for further improvements in the 2016 presidential race - "See, the economy sucked for 6 years, but when we took over Congress, 2015 was a great year and 2016 looks to be better. Elect us for continued improvement."

The sad part is that their base will believe it and forget that the economy has been slowly improving for a few years now.

[world wide wally]

7. This graph should be burned into everybody's memory for the next election.

Make it the new Democratic logo.
Maybe then it will actually sink in with some people.

[calimary]

10. It'll be up to US - at the ground level. The "higher-ups" don't seem that interested.

Including OUR "higher-ups." WHY the Dems aren't out there screaming about this, EVERYWHERE, EVERY chance they get, 24/7/365 - it's just beyond me.

WE have to do the heavy lifting. We can't afford to wait for the DEBBIES out there (Wasserman-Schultz & company) to do it.

[edhopper]

8. The problem isn't Mitch taken credit

I'm surprised he didn't give Reagen credit.

The problem is the MSM will not take him to task for such a ridiculous claim.

[SoapBox]

9. Super ditto.