re: #420 Dark_Falcon

The Dems have a tendency to be fractious, true. But they’re not going to say much about this for tactical reasons: Most Democrats are trying to localize their elections and focus on what they have done for their locality. They don’t want to use out-of-state issues to avoid having the economy be the main issue.

The economy is better now than it was in GOP hands. If the Dems had been announcing this clearly all along, they would own this issue.

The numbers and the facts are:

GOP spends more than Dems for the last 60 years.

The bailout is working.

Bailouts take time to work.

GOP business as usual led to the crisis.

Further the economy is linked to other larger things. The GOP keeps us dependent on fossil fuels. Switching off of oil would create millions of jobs and keep hundreds of billions of dollars in America rather than flowing to other nations that hate us.

The Dems should own this issue, but as usual, they fail utterly to stand up.