Posted on 07/17/2011 5:01:28 AM PDT by Son House
But the charge from Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is evidence of the political nervousness among Democratic governors looking ahead to 2012 after their ranks were thinned in the last election.
It also hints at the tenuous control the president has over jobs and the economy, the issues certain to dominate the elections.
"I think that there is an extreme wing within their party who have as their primary goal not the jobs recovery, but the defeat of President Obama in 2012," O'Malley said in an interview. "They know that their formulations, their policies of less revenues and less regulation badly failed our country and plunged us into this recession. So their only way of evening the playing field is to keep the president from being successful in the jobs recovery."
He contended that key Republican members of Congress, "through their intransigence, cleverly set up a situation for America's economy to fail, either by needlessly driving us to default, or needlessly driving us into massive public sector layoffs."
"I think that they are disgracefully cynical," said O'Malley, who has a prominent profile as head of the Democratic governors' group.
O'Malley, who some believe has national aspirations for 2016, acknowledged that it's rare for one elected official to accuse others of trying to hurt Americans for political gain.
O'Malley spoke openly about something that has troubled top Democrats for months. With unemployment at 9.2 percent, a further decline in the economy could make it difficult for any prcontemplated challenging Obama. "Campaigns are supposed to be about an incumbent's record."
Gov. Terry Branstad, R-Iowa, defended the Republican debt negotiators, especially Cantor. Obama carried Iowa easily in 2008, after winning the Democratic caucus.
"We launched him," Branstad said of Obama, "but we can sink him."
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Another libtard idiot-bot named O’Malley, who has been actively moving Maryland so far left it is not even funny. =.=
I thought that was the Democrat strategy? Destroy the economy so we would all have to be taken care of by the government. You mean they are trying to fix it?
Tax Hike O’Money has nothing to say to me about economic stewardship.
We need to take a survey.
Are the liberal leadership really this blind that they actually believe this stuff. Or are they criminals, stealing from their treasuries while having the ignorant and the mentally handicapped run around spouting this nonsense?
It was always my belief that Communism is nothing more than a criminal enterprise that uses collectivism and the concept of the egalitarian paradise as a front for their criminal activities.
Dontcha know that all Democrats are brilliant, that they know all answers, are all-wise, all-knowing, without fault and saint-like.......and that all Republicans are evil, heartless, mean, stupid, knuckle-dragging morons who can be trusted with no amount of government responsiblity?
Hmmmmmmm? Donthca know that?
/sarcasm/
IMHO
LilMarty is the liberal intellect who, when running for guvner, said our President George Bush was a worse threat to the USA than Osama Bin Laden
Of course, LilMarty never offered to lead a band of patriots against this extreme national security threat, might have wrinkled his Brooks Brothers shirt
He is a photogenic idiotic Uriah Heep, so watch for him in future democrat national politics
Who was the guy that said something about how with every rise in % the unemployment rate went up, the Democrats pick up a seat in the House?
Oh yeah, Dick Gephart.
But it’s really the GOP that wants to hurt the economy, right?
...and like this o’mally fool is doing as good job in Maryland, the ultimate Freak state? o’mally continues to smoke something or other as he is delusional and an epic-fail gov.
The Democrats are doing everything that they can to hold back, control, hamper, regulate and steal from businesses and those who start, own and run them. Ergo they are doing everything they cab to destroy the economy.
IDIOT.
Typical lib Doesn’t have a valid argument for his position so he lies about the other sides position
A nanny state is not sustainable.
Memo to Gov. O’Malley:
Barkey doesn’t need any help. The evidence is already in.
One really has to wonder do these leftest hate conservatives so mush they ignore everything obvious?
This president is totally unqualified for dog catcher.
One really has to wonder do these leftest hate conservatives so mush they ignore everything obvious?
This president is totally unqualified for dog catcher.
A clear demonstration that liberals have no ideas to fix the economy.
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