Posted on 06/15/2011 10:04:09 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: ‘We own the economy’
By: Molly Ball June 15, 2011 11:35 AM EDT
Democrats are ready to take responsibility for the state of the economy and they deserve credit for putting it on the right track, the party’s chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, said on Wednesday.
“We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place,” Wasserman Schultz told Mike Allen at a breakfast hosted by POLITICO’s Playbook.
The economy, she said, “has turned around” since President Obama took office, with steady job growth evident even if the pace leaves something to be desired.
Republicans have ridiculed Democrats’ claims of economic success in the wake of disappointing jobs numbers and an uptick in the unemployment rate.
Wasserman Schultz said Democrats aren’t in need of a new story to tell about the economy because they’ve put the right policies in place. “I don’t think it’s about what we say, it’s about what we do.”
She said Democrats’ actions demonstrate their commitment to the middle class while Republicans’ do not. Though she commended several individual Republicans by name — including her home state colleague, Rep. Daniel Webster — Wasserman Schultz said the party’s leadership in the house is beholden to an extreme faction.
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my wife and i have been using the word “demonic”,
and myself on this forum,
long before ann’s book.
animal spirits, green shoots, etc.
They’ve tried it all to jump start this economy, everything but allowing the business (debt) cycle to heal naturally.
This is gonna get bad.
Yeah?
You plum crazy...
Well, if Temperance Ax-Lady Carrie Nation and her blowhard man-at-swarms William Jennings Bryan were still with us today, they would wholeheartedly agree. And there is indeed to all sane and more moderate temperaments who look into the widespread use of these drugs some truth to be found in being inclined towards Madame Ax-wielder and her Grand PooBah in this matter.
Another certified LID (Liberal-In-Denial). They breed like cockroaches, even tougher to make go away and like roaches will probably survive a nuclear holicost.
I’ll bet the guys in the White House would like to smack the crap out of her right now.
Useful idiot.
That’s the first thing Thunderlips has said where she’s right.
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