How Obama Can Really Hurt the GOP
How Obama Can Really Hurt the GOP: Focus on Its Radical Economic Plan
by Michael Tomasky
The president can sink Romney by trumpeting the details of the ludicrous economic solutions hes been backing. How Mitt would turn America into one big Pottersville.
Three years ago, two years agoheck, six months agoI and a lot of people I know thought: Surely the jobs situation will have picked up as we round the clubhouse turn toward Election Day. I envisioned Barack Obama at the Democratic convention, being able to claim... something fairly modest, but something: three straight months of 200,000-plus-jobs growth. Some kind of hook for an upbeat narrative.
Well, it looks like it aint gonna happen. Obama will be able to make some claims, and he damn well better make them without apology or fear of how the 48th Street Fantasy Factory will spin them. But the story isnt good enough, so theres but one alternative: convince people that Mitt Romney and a Republican Congress will make things worse. In a rational world, that wouldnt be too hard, because except for Ronald Reagans second term, making things worse is all Republicans have ever done since Nixon. But our world isnt rational, and Obama is going to have to confront that fact in a huge way or risk being sent to the showers early.
Its amazing, first of all, the importance now of these jobs numbers. Partly its because the economy is bad, true; but partly its also the blog-and-tweet, more-faster-now political culture. Romney was having an awful weekand, by the way, still did have an awful week. Those issuesthe mandate confusion, Bain, the offshoring, the million-dollar IRAarent going anywhere, and theyll resurface. But obviously, they had to be relieved up in Boston when the 80,000-jobs number came out Friday morning. .......
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