former Deputy Assistant to George H.W. Bush, Charles Kolb
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Bush League Republicans are eager to finish of the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA)
They want Trump out of the way as much as Democrats.
This is exactly what concerns me. The election will not be held in today’s economy, and economies are cyclical.
George H.W. Bush lost re-election after only a mild economic downturn that ended months before 1992’s election day.
The is another variable in the current boom: an influx of foreign capital seeking safe haven.
Not having the passion to actually participate vigorously in his own campaign didn't help.
Typical dickheads - they don’t even HAVE A CLUE that the reason the economy is doing so well is simply because Trump took off much of the SHACKLES that Obama, and presidents before him of both parties, put on it.
Leave business alone, or at least don’t make them tie up all their capital spending on compliance with more and more regulations, and ANY president can grow the economy, even a Democrat.
How does he know? Did Trump tell him?
Besides, it's more than the economy, stupid.
BS!
Obama’s STAGFLATION lasted 8 years (really 10 when you consider how Nazi Pelosi tanked the market under Bush)
David Stockman? David Stockman?! He’s been getting things wrong since the Reagan days. The epitome of an ivory tower type.
The deeper realities are as usual obscured in this kind of analysis:
1. Massive stimulus was applied to the economy by the FED in purchasing trillions of dollars in stocks while Obama continued to obliterate the American free market. This fostered the appearance of a recovery and laid the foundation for a recoil if a Republican ever got in control.
2. The current recovery is even more remarkable when you stop and consider that not only is the FED not buying billions of dollars in stocks everyday as they were during the Obama era— but they literally raised interest rates to slow the economy. Compounding the matter further is that the Fed is selling off its stocks at some unknown rate further supressing the stock market.
The economy is roaring right now and the FED is a massive anchor jacobins are trying to anchor to the seabed floor so they can get back in power in 2021. Democrats want a massive economic collapse for the public. That should be said loud and frequently.
They want poverty and unemployment to increase as massively as humanly possible.
That is the essence of our current political depravity.
We know the corrupted partisan Democrats, Rinos, deep state bad actors and the media have been pushing to tank the economy prior to the 2020 election.
NOTHING they may do would turn me away from President Trump!
Hear me, ash hats?
it is certainly true that a bad economy usually hurts a re-election candidate
it is also true that the economy goes up and down (or has cycles)
but since the current up cycle is only 2 years old, and most up cycles endure longer than this, chances are pretty good that the economy will still be pretty good in 2020
there are no guarantees, of course, but it is a good likely chance, especially given PDJT’s generally pro-economy, pro-jobs policies
ps: the headline is probably correct in saying that the D’s are not able to defeat PDJT now... given all their craziness, insanity, lies, and obstructions of/interferrences with our system of representative governance
Stupidity on parade.
The ONLY thing that can sink Trump is not enforcing the election laws and borders.
What the author didn't point out here is that U.S. expansions have almost consistently become longer and weaker over time. That's why we're celebrating a 3% growth rate that would have seemed almost like a depression 30 years ago ... even while we're in the midst of a "record" expansion.
These are classic characteristics of a nation with an aging population and a fascist economic model.
I’ll name three:
1. Trade war with China
2. War with Venezuela
3. War with Iran
Any recession will be caused by raising taxes, raising interest rates too high or too fast, cutting the rate of increase in the money supply, and credit crunch.
I still contend that the Fed intended to cause a recession just before the 2008 Presidential elections, but they messed up and went too far, causing the banking crisis.
No need for a massive, pork-barrel “infrastructure bill” with the Dems in the House!
Just send those illegals packing and we’ll have plenty of infrastructure capacity (that the states can more modestly upgrade as needed), as well as far less of an immediate and long-term drain on our coffers from the illegals nesting themselves in here.
George H.W. Bush lost re-election after only a mild economic downturn that ended months before 1992’s election day.
That may be true time wise, however his election was lost
after democrats were able to make him go back on his word
by agreeing to new taxes.
Never, never trust a democrat!