We looked at this story before, that while the GOP has been trying to attack Obama for speaking the truth-that there has been no "Obama Recession" but that this remains an ongoing Bush Recession, and some duped Democrats a la Carville have bought into the idea that Obama can't tell the story of his own record and accomplishments, the American people know better.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2012/06/americans-get-it-bush-not-obama-fault.html
I see that reality has even seeped through to the clueless GOP Nation over at the Right wing hit operation TownHall. "Bad News" they mourn. "This Whole Blame Bush Thing is Actually Working."
Gee. I wonder why that might be.
"If you've been paying any attention at all throughout the past three years, you've noticed President Obama blaming President George W. Bush for just about everything while dodging any responsibility for his own failed economic policies. According to a new Gallup Poll, many Americans actually believe the bad economy is Bush's fault."
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/06/14/bad_news_this_whole_blame_bush_thing_is_actually_working
They believe this because they actually remember the Bush years. They are not buying Right wing revisionism no matter how many times repeated. Carville, et al should have more faith in the American people, they're not this clueless.
"Americans continue to place more blame for the nation's economic problems on George W. Bush than on Barack Obama, even though Bush left office more than three years ago. The relative economic blame given to Bush versus Obama today is virtually the same as it was last September."
So the Republicans can't deny this. Will Democrats now admit that there's nothing wrong with the President's message? Saying we inherited a mess, a lot's been accomplished but there's more to do, it's "half time in America" as Clint Eastwood puts it but we got the second half as long as we don't let that Right wing cabal anywhere near the White House is a winning strategy not a losing one. Carville and company need not be so impressionable.
"Republicans and Democrats distribute economic blame in different ways, as was the case last September. Democrats follow what might be described as a fairly traditional pattern: 90% blame Bush, in contrast to 19% who blame Obama."
"Republicans, however, are more ecumenical in their blame, with 83% blaming Obama a great deal or moderate amount and 49% ascribing the same level of blame to Bush. Republicans, in short, are significantly more willing to blame their most recent Republican president than are Democrats willing to blame Obama."
At the end of the article Kate Pavlich tries to spin it with these factoids:
"National Debt when Bush left office after 8 years in office: $9 trillion Nation Debt now under Obama after just three years: $15.5 trillion Unemployment when Bush left office: 7.6%Unemployment now: 8.2%"
This is why the news is bad Kate. You Right wing folks failed economic analysis 101 just as Dick Army got a D in his major in college-in the Philosophy of Life.
In a recession you expect to run a deficit if you hope to ever leave it. As the GOP doesn't they quibble over deficits during a recession. There's no "looming debt bomb" as is clear by even a cursory look at US Treasury yields.
Unemployment is another spin job. The big job losses came during the last few months of Bush's term and first few months of his. Back then there will be 750,000 per month. Since unemployment hit a bottom at 10.1% we've had constant private sector job growth. Unfortunately Mitt Romney is promising even more public sector cuts. Which is why Romney is Bush 2.0 and why it bothers them so much that the public still blames Bush's failed policies rather than some imaginary "Obama Recession."
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