Posted on 12/19/2011 5:38:11 PM PST by Son House
"If I have the choice between extending the tax cut for a year and energizing our economy and having an issue to run on, I'd rather energize the economy," Axelrod said in an exclusive interview with Fox News. "I think that it's better for the country, it's better for the president. Frankly it's better for the Congress even if they don't see it."
In the next breath, however, Axelrod flatly charged the latest move by House Republicans to block a Senate compromise extending the tax cut for two months is an effort by the GOP to choke off any economic recovery and damage Obama's already difficult re-election prospects.
"You have to wonder whether some folks over there think somehow -- think screwing up the economy, throwing a wrench in the works is a good political strategy for them," Axelrod told Fox News. "Somehow if they can slow the recovery down, if they can cost a half million or delay a half million jobs, that that will hurt the president."
Back in Washington, the president and his aides say they're not watching the GOP nomination fight closely as they deal with the Congressional endgame. Here in the president's hometown, however, Fox News was given a tour today of the Obama team's 50,000-square-foot re-election headquarters where dozens of paid staffers are working around the clock to be ready for the eventual Republican standard bearer.
Axelrod noted there were more than two dozen debates in the 2008 Democratic primary and he suggested the current GOP field is nowhere near as strong as the group that included Obama, Clinton and other Democrats like then-Sens. Joe Biden and Chris Dodd.
"There were a lot of plausible presidents on that platform," said Axelrod.
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Your right.
I got a sneaking suspicion back in late 80’s early 90’s that there was manipulation of the system ( econ) by the Democrat insiders. Everyone has forgotten the huge bubble Clinton created with the Tech Stocks. Wonder if only Dems became millionaires on that one. Then when Bush became Pres all of a sudden it burst. The Dems have been pissed ever since 911, because the War (s) delayed the planned damage to the Repub admin. Zero thought the Solyndra types would create yet another money maker for the Insiders. But they got greedy. Always a mistake.
I know this sounds tin foil hat stuff. But I think if someone like you looked at the data, maybe I could be right.
“Bush’s fault” sounds better than “I’m continuing and compounding on Bush’s mistakes”, but hope and change is dead.
Post of the year. The dem’s aren’t playing politics, they’re after the whole enchilada, for perpetuity.
I think the words Axelrod is looking for are “wreckers” and “counterrevolutionaries”. At least those are the usual English translations of the Russian words the Bolsheviks used for the non-existent people who were the purported causes of the failure of every Five-Year Plan.
He could deploy colorful sentences like “Wreckers are preventing Comrade Obama’s vision of Hope and Change from being realized. Chief among them are the conterrevolutionary cadres in the House GOP caucus.”
"If I have the choice between extending the tax cut for a year and energizing our economy and having an issue to run on, I'd rather energize the economy," Axelrod said in an exclusive interview with Fox News.IOW, he favors the Boehner proposal in the House? Axelrod's an asshole.
No comment on Axelrod since I didn’t watch the interview.
But ...
I remember Fox News from the old days when “Fair and Balanced” actually had meaning. I miss it. I just can’t get into this new “Bash Newt” on every show format. Somehow it lacks “Balance” and yes, it lacks “Fairness” as well.
Time to move on.
as the group that included Obama, Clinton and other Democrats like then-Sens. Joe Biden and Chris Dodd.
“There were a lot of plausible presidents on that platform,” said Axelrod.
If that don’t scare ya, nothing will.
The truth is: Obama and the Dems have always wanted to screw up the economy. It is a way of maintaining political control of the dependent masses. The more that people live solely on entitlement programs and believe that it is the Democrat politicians who want to take care of them, the more they will continue to vote for the same power hungry politicians whose main objective is to create a socialist America.
The biggest insider opportunity was in late March of 2009 when Obama said that he thought the market was undervalued. $1-1/2 trillion of Fed balance sheet expansion later, those who believed that the government would move the market are rich. Summers had a chat with Bernanke.
Axelrod makes, mixes, and pushes the Kool-aid.
That is two of the nastiest national socialists that have ever been photographed.
LLS
Reid needs all the Senators to agree to come back early before he can hold a regular session according to Senate rules. He has no chance of getting that.
Seeing Boehner on TV playing the Obama ‘tears for the middle class’ against a lazy do nothing Senate warms my heart. It's about time Republicans fight fire with fire.
Well Republicans didn’t bankrupt the savings & loan industry through fraud. Republicans didn’t cook the books at Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. Republicans didn’t force banks to make loans to people who couldn’t pay them back. Republicans didn’t have either House of Congress or the White House for 2 years.
Yep. It’s the Republicans.
How can the Republicans screw it up when Barry had already done that? Stuff it Axel! You Hitler-lookin’ moron.
Again, you have to look beyond the Oval Office. Clinton didn't create the dot.com boom... the Internet simply reached critical mass during the 90's. Some of us had been using the 'Net (and its competitors) for the prior decade, but it didn't become readily available to the average computer user until then.
Once the WWW was invented, everyone was racing to come up with the next "big idea" for online users, and there were plenty of bad ones. But, there was so much venture capital money pouring in, it was being spent indiscriminately.
I was working in the industry at the time (and still am), and saw the excesses. Everyone was trying to get their new venture to IPO and cash in, and rationality went out the window.
The dot.com bust started in March, 2000, 9 months before Bush took office. It finally bottomed out in October, 2003. After that, the market grew steadily until October, 2007.
The subsequent decline was gradual, until September 2008. To this day, I think that's when the financial markets realized that Obama was going to be elected, and foresaw the consequences. That's why I believe the bubble popped so fast.
Cantor on CSPAN(now) says vote on rejecting Senate bill is tomorrow
Thank You. It just seemed to me it burst quickly. I certainly agree that the markets took a close look at Zero and knew what was coming.
I been hearing the opposite. If true it must mean they have the votes to defeat it which means they wont lose ~50 or more Republicans. Losing 40 would look bad anyway.
How about voting on a resolution demanding the Senate come back? That would throw a firebomb over in the other camp.
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