“People are, and will be, angry - very angry.”
We hammered Jimmy Carter hard over this type of economy. Every time we go to the pump or the market prices are up. The GOP ran the show completely between 2002 and 2006. Bush and his party have done little to offset the damage.
Blaming the Democrats and their idiot policies for this may be true and right, but it won’t cut it with anyone outside our orbit. If the situation were reversed with a Democrat president, we’d all be screaming for blood.
November will be a bloodbath.
“We hammered Jimmy Carter hard over this type of economy.”
No, we hammered Carter over an economy that was far worse for far longer. In 1980, the misery index was 25%. Inflation was double digits, and we had a real recession and unemployment over 10%. Today unemployment is in the 5% range and misery index is under 10%. We;’ve had respectable 3.5% growth in the time the GOP ran everything, the slowdown has happened since the Democrats took over Congress, but it is not a recession at this time.
“Blaming the Democrats and their idiot policies for this may be true and right, but it won’t cut it with anyone outside our orbit.”
The truth has to be spoken, because if we dont say it, nobody will, and the idea of voting in more anti-energy Democrats to ‘fix’ high energy prices is an absurdity.
“If the situation were reversed with a Democrat president, we’d all be screaming for blood.” If the Democrat was to blame. I dont recall to many of us blaming Clinton for the collapse of the internet bubble for example.