Legal Commentary

Was The Lack Of Economic Recovery Inevitable?

By Big Tent Democrat

John Cole writes:

[T]he reason Democrats are going to lose seats is the simple fact that the economy sucks and really, even if we were to have another stimulus, it looks like it is going to suck for a long time. If unemployment were at 5% and the DOW was humming along and we could still fool ourselves into thinking we had it good because we were using our houses as ATM’s, we wouldn’t be talking about messaging and the Obama economic team. As it is, there is really nothing that government can do to bring that back, and we’re dealing with a day of reckoning that was a long time coming.

(Emphasis supplied.) So "nothing could be done" seems to be the latest defense of Democratic governance the past 2 years. I suppose that's possible, but it is not a winning message. If "everyone" knew "nothing could be done," the Dems should have spent the past 2 years making the GOP block everything, so they could blame this all on the GOP. Things were pretty "post-partisany" for 2009 at least. Some one messed up, either on policy, or politics, or both.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 22, 2010 (boomark / email).