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Obama Campaign Strategist Axelrod Charges Republicans With 'Screwing Up' Economy to Hurt President
FOXNEWS ^ | December 19, 2011 | Ed Henry

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: axelrod; campaign; charges; strategist
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Can no one on the Republican side explain we need a new tax code, not another extension of a Democratic Party Socialist financing gimmick for the Social Security Trust Fund? Don't like the way the current system is funded? Don't vote for politicians who are not going to change that, and Democrat had 2 years as a Super-Majority to change it, if they wanted to.

Didn't we just hear the Senate version is unworkable? This should give all pause that the whole payroll tax cut premise is unworkable.
1 posted on 12/19/2011 5:38:20 PM PST by Son House
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To: Son House

They’re expecting to Barry to get reelected with that?


2 posted on 12/19/2011 5:42:17 PM PST by yup2394871293
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To: Son House

so is that what democraps did the last 2 years of the Bush Administration?

The economy was fine until Nazi Pelosi took over

The statistics would back up this claim, and also that it got WORSE under Obambi...

but nothing would support the republicans making things worse since they took over


3 posted on 12/19/2011 5:42:56 PM PST by Mr. K (Physically unable to profreed <--- oops, see?)
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To: Son House
Dear AxleShaft:

Approve the XL pipeline and drilling in the Gulf, off of Floridah and just about anywhere else and we'll talk.

4 posted on 12/19/2011 5:43:49 PM PST by Paladin2
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Now who exactly is trying to bankrupt Social Security?


5 posted on 12/19/2011 5:43:55 PM PST by Gene Eric (Save a pretzel for the gas jets.)
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To: Son House
Yeah. It was downright disheartening to see the way the Republicans in the House and Senate used their clear minority to run roughshod over those Democrats.
6 posted on 12/19/2011 5:44:09 PM PST by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: Son House
This is rich.
Look at the Dems actions in late 2007/2008, leading up to the Presidential election.
Schumer started a run on IndyMac which led to their demise (this guy should be somewhere breaking big rocks into little rocks), and Pelosi initiated an Energy resource scare, that didn't get suppressed until Mrs. Palin started pitching for more drilling. The Dems will always sacrifice the best interests of the Nation to achieve political power... So not a major surprise that they accuse others of indulging in actions which they've honed over years of experience.
7 posted on 12/19/2011 5:46:57 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: yup2394871293

Nasty Nan and her Dummies were in charge when the econ took a nosedive sooooooooooooooooo. It actually is the Dummies that are responsible.

better rethink this one Axelrod.


8 posted on 12/19/2011 5:47:11 PM PST by marty60
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To: Son House

I thought crises were something not to waste.


9 posted on 12/19/2011 5:49:12 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Son House

My broker is E. F. Goebbels, and he says...

10 posted on 12/19/2011 5:50:31 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Why back in '88, Conservatives backed Gore in Texas. What Reagan revolution? What laegacy?)
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To: Son House
AXE-baby is full of .....


11 posted on 12/19/2011 5:50:31 PM PST by Colonial Warrior (Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.)
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To: Son House
...BOY...Even Man-boy in the Happy Valley sense...

I'd sure like to have a link to the real estate chain of title for the Axelrod..... He's most likely dirty,IMHO!

What a bastard! Yes, even fitting the Webster's definition of "bastard"!

12 posted on 12/19/2011 5:50:35 PM PST by ptsal (E)
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To: Son House

After hearing this same Axelrod clip on radio, I have the impression he is a big Socialist like a Soros, and this economic mayhem for de-funding Social Securtiy Trust Fund is just another phase of overloading budgets.


13 posted on 12/19/2011 5:54:26 PM PST by Son House (The Economic Boom Heard Around The World => TEA Party 2012)
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To: Son House
Hey Axe... we know who the 'screw up' is.

In A Ditch2

14 posted on 12/19/2011 5:56:14 PM PST by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: Son House

I can think of nobody more worthy of being screwed over.


15 posted on 12/19/2011 5:58:53 PM PST by ProudFossil
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To: marty60
Nasty Nan and her Dummies were in charge when the econ took a nosedive sooooooooooooooooo. It actually is the Dummies that are responsible.

If you look back over the past three decades, there is a direct correlation between leading economic indicators and the party that controls the House of Representatives.

Everyone likes to focus on who occupied the Oval Office. But, the federal government can't spend much at all unless the House agrees. It's the way that the US Constitution was written.

There was an exception: the mini-recession that followed the double whammy of the dot-com crash and 9/11. That was really out of either party's control. And the decisions to prosecute the Afghan and Iraq wars were bi-partisan: you can't assign all the responsibility to only one party.

But, we recovered from that pretty quickly. At the end of 2006, unemployment was under 5% and the annual deficit was shrinking. Then, the Democrats took control of Congress and everything went to hell.

However, I don't know if the housing bubble would have popped so quickly in 2008. The Bush administration was trying to defuse it as early as 2006, but Democrats in key positions were stonewalling (even the minority party can block legislation, despite what Barney Frank wants you to think). If the Republicans were still in control in 2007, there might have been a possibility for a soft landing, rather than an uncontrolled crash.

16 posted on 12/19/2011 6:01:42 PM PST by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: Son House
There were a lot of plausible presidents on that platform," said Axelrod.

there was maybe 1 and she got jobbed.
17 posted on 12/19/2011 6:03:19 PM PST by stylin19a (obama - "FREDO" smart)
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To: Son House

another one of 0bama’s faithful saying that anyone/everyone is more capable that 0bama.

every time they blame the current situation on someone else, what they’re really saying is that 0bama has no sway, no power, no influence...it’s as if he doesn’t exist.


18 posted on 12/19/2011 6:06:06 PM PST by mreerm
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To: Son House
"I open my mouth, and lies fly out!"


19 posted on 12/19/2011 6:07:30 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: yup2394871293

think about it.

every tim 0bama whines “it’s Bush’s fault”, what he’s really saying is “Bush has been gone for YEARS, yet he’s still more ifluential than I am by a long shot”


20 posted on 12/19/2011 6:11:40 PM PST by mreerm
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