Posted on 08/24/2011 6:47:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Now more than halfway through his third year in office — with the economy flat-lining, American prestige evaporating, and public anxiety spiking — Barack Obama is the most vulnerable incumbent president since Jimmy Carter. The election is still 14 months away, but it's not too early to see the broad outlines of the GOP's case against the president.
Economic Malpractice: Obama inherited a tough economy, but his stewardship has in many respects made the situation worse.
Given this atrocious record, Republicans should repeatedly affirm what Obama's senior counselor, David Plouffe, has acknowledged: The president "owns" the economy. It's the product of his handiwork. And if Obama is reelected, we will get more of the same. The Republican theme for the 2012 campaign should consist of two words: Had enough?
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
1. To slow because it needs regulated and managed, strict over sight to prevent fraud, waste and abuse. When governments try to “spend” their way out they do this too slowly. Two years after beginning the awesome plan of massive government spending over 20% of the money still hadn't been spent. Quick and immediate action would have prevented things from falling as low as they did.
2. Horrible multiplying effect. The idea is that for every dollar spent, the economy might have a net infusion of 1.4 dollars because the company building the road needs more concrete, the concrete factors needs more trucks, the truck builder... Every dollar needs spent in a way that creates even more jobs, but when efficiency and profit are excluded and ideological ideas of green energy, public transportation, social programs and other special perks are added, you end up with this: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-s-economists-stimulus-has-cost-278000-job_576014.html
3. Artificial market constructs. When governments spend money they spend it on what benefits politicians and what fads are present, not where their is a supply and demand. You end up with the study of the Mormon cricket and money for programs to teach subsararan men the proper use of condoms (paid for by the the tax payer as part of the “stimulus”). You end up with permanent money drains where if the government pulls the plug, the entire scheme unravels because there is no real market that would ever support such an endeavor. You end up with goods or services being offered or produced for essentially a non existent customer, or a customer that only exists for as long as the government keeps lying by playing a shell game with money, subsidies. You actually “create” market inefficiencies in the long run!
The new version of “trickle down” economics from “da gubbermint” don't work to well. When will they learn?
This is a Weekly Standard commentary which NPR then posted on their site.
Even so, it is still worth noting NPR is willing to let their readers see the truth about Obama.
Why Obama won’t be challenged in his own party
Rick Moran
“Despite being wildly unpopular, Obama would still do better than any Democratic rival who challenged him in the primaries.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/08/why_obama_wont_be_challenged_in_his_own_party.html
The overarching story for Obama's opponent, though, should be that the president is the architect of American decline, which in turn has left the public deeply uneasy and dejected. According to the Democratic pollster Mark Penn, "The country is going through one of its longest sustained periods of unhappiness and pessimism ever." Almost 4 in 10 Americans believe we're in a state of permanent decline. Americans' satisfaction with the way things are going in the country fell to 11 percent last week.
Obama, the Architect of American Decline...has a real ring of his presidential legacy, doesn't it?!!!
Had enough ?
Wow...NPR has a writer who isn’t afraid that he might get the axe for telling the truth! Who woulda thunk it?
This commentary was posted in the Weekly Standard and copied by NPR.
Just the fact NPR posted a story very critical of the ObamaMao is quite telling.
ironicly, they would go to Ron Paul, because he is so far right he’s left.
Of biblical proportions.
The Author worked in the Reagan / Bush WH...no surprise other than it was linked at NPR. Don’t think NPR isn’t scared of a Republican landslide in 2012.....they just might start moving to the center to protect there funding.
When a network you’ve bought and paid for starts throwing you under the bus, can we say it’s over?
bump.
Wow... the bigger news is NPR let this filter thru from the Weekly Standard onto their pages...... the other news that Obama is worse than Carter is not new nor big news.... just dem facts mam!
He is Bill Clinton with a Super Majority his first 2 years
Everything he did Clinton wanted to do but couldn’t—Hillary Care —Gays in the Military—tax increases etc etc
Clinton raised taxes but was baled out by Greenspan lowering interest rates negating the tax effect on those with mortgages—and other big loans
And after 94 a GOP controlling both houses kept him reigned in economically
I think part of the Repub strategy for 2012 should be to hang the blame for inflation on Obama. Regrettably, I don’t think the average voter seems to have a good grasp of the concept of the national debt, and QE-whatever, so for the economy, I think that the Repubs have focus on the symptoms rather than the root causes for campaigns.
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