Posted on 09/08/2011 7:20:32 PM PDT by tobyhill
The weak underbelly of President Obama’s economic philosophy has been apparent for quite some time now. When faced with a choice between a social agenda and economic growth, choose ObamaCare.
When given the option of unions or economic growth, sit on trade agreements and empower the National Labor Relations Board.
Espouse the need to soak the rich and attack successful corporations – even if your own party blanches at raising taxes on American small business.
Let the green agenda at the Environmental Protection Agency undercut growth imperatives.
In short, make the wrong call on policy tradeoffs consistently. But when the chickens come home to roost – years of substandard growth and chronic high unemployment – argue that what is really needed is a “jobs bill” or “American Jobs Act”. As if economic growth was a government program.
For all these reasons, I did not expect the president's speech Thursday evening to be a policy home run. After all, the specifics – nearly all of which were leaked in advance – were warmed-over retreads from previous “jobs” speeches.
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“He is going to lose this action hard.”
I think that when he’s pressed on jobs during the campaign, he won’t point to Bush, he’ll point to the regressive republicans and TEA partiers whose partisan refusal to go along with Obama’s reasonable and necessary Jobs Bill continue to cost Americans the well-paying jobs they deserve.
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