GOP Deserves Credit For Good News On Job Front (According To Email Sent Out By GOP)

by Jon Bershad | 11:48 am, January 24th, 2011

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Well, finally! It took them practically forever, but the Republicans have saved America and started a great upward economic swing. At least, that’s what an email sent by Eric Cantor’s team to reporters this morning says. However, some of those reporters have taken the time to look into the emails claims and aren’t entirely convinced.

Let’s start with the email itself. Written by Brian Patrick, an aide to Cantor, it included this following bit of healthy back-patting:

“THERE ARE THE JOBS: Republicans Prevent Massive Tax Increase, Economy Begins to Improve: U.S. companies plan to hire more workers in the coming months amid growing optimism over the economy, a quarterly survey released Monday showed, providing further evidence that the jobs market is turning around. In the fourth-quarter poll of 84 companies by the National Association for Business Economics found 42% of companies interviewed, ranging from manufacturing to finance, expect to boost jobs in the six months ahead. That’s up from 29% in the first three months of 2010. Only 7% in the latest survey predict they will shed jobs in the coming six months, down from 23% at the start of last year.”

The first Doubting Thomas up to bat was Politico’s Ben Smith. Smith had the audacity to actually click on the link the email uses as proof for its claims. It leads to a Dow Jones story that, as Smith points out, doesn’t actually mention Republicans at all. Who cares, right? It’s all in the subtext.

Next was David Weigel who took the time to contact an actual economist. When asked what he thought of the email, the economist, Bruce Bartlett, responded, “As usual, they are full of shit.” Yeah? But what do you really think? Again, this means nothing because Weigel probably only knows Bartlett from some shady Journolist connection or something.

So, yeah, these guys are trying to rain on everybody’s parade. But we won’t let them! Clearly the country is saved and the Republicans have managed to do it all in just 19 days! Hooray! Break out the champagne and make it the expensive bottle! We’re all gonna be rich again!

(Check out Smith’s post here and Weigel’s here)

Ben Smith, Brian Patrick, Bruce Bartlett, David Weigel, Eric Cantor

skyfet

Wow! taking credit for events that occured before they were sworn in. These jokers can’t rule well but I tell ya they know how to make things up.

Weapon of mass destruction
Scaring Americans to win elections
Turning a war vet into a coward, and a coward into a hero

Where is the shame? How do they get away with this kind of crap?

Blame the stupid media for not doing their job. The fourth estate is the enemy of the people, they’d rather show you some silly celebrities than put the foot of these jokers to fire.
Gasket

It must be that House only health care repeal vote and the upcoming abortion bill that has created all the jobs! Can’t wait to see the Faux Network continue this sophistry.
paulmdoro

A politician claiming that their party deserves credit for something they actually do not deserve credit for? Say it isn’t so!
The_Reasonable_Lib

Why let the truth get in the way of truthiness?
The_Reasonable_Lib

Also I hate to mention this, but I called it.
CAconservative

In part, the Republicans are right. By keeping the Bush tax-cuts in place businesses could then begin to make plans knowing what the tax structure was going to be, and how to work within that tax structure. Had Obimbo’s dream of taxing businesses even more come to fruition, stagnation in business expansion, and hiring would have taken a hard hit.
timcajun

I could handle the “right” taking credit for something they had nothing to do with,…”if”…. they didn’t blame Obama next time something ” they caused ” goes wrong!
Wisco

They also took credit for the end of the Hundred Year War, the invention of the steam engine, and gravity.
Socialist

CAconservative said:
In part, the Republicans are right. By keeping the Bush tax-cuts in place businesses could then begin to make plans knowing what the tax structure was going to be, and how to work within that tax structure. Had Obimbo’s dream of taxing businesses even more come to fruition, stagnation in business expansion, and hiring would have taken a hard hit.

somehow increasing taxes in single digits will decrease business productivity?..
CAconservative

Socialist:

According to the small business beurau…yes. According to common-sense…yes. Imagine how much better the small business environment would have been had this bloated-government gave them even more tax-breaks.