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David Axelrod, being grilled on a lot of the economic stuff that’s gone down in this administration, has been accused of being overly enthralled with President Obama to politically think straight. His response is one of those quotes that has a delicious ironic sting to it.
“Believe me, if we were charting this administration as a political exercise, the first thing we would have done would not have been a massive recovery act, stabilizing the banks and helping to keep the auto companies from collapsing,” he said. “Those would not even be the first hundred things he would want to do.”
First, Axelrod begins with “Believe me,” which seems to always signal that there is something about to be said that’s not credible. And what follows proves that at least in this case the automatic suspicion is warranted. Axelrod wants us to “believe him” that an effective political exercise does not include massive government bills in times of trouble.
History would suggest exactly the opposite. This last crisis is said to be second only to the Great Depression. And in the Great Depression, a banking crisis followed by massive governmental bill after bill after bill and greater regulatory scrutiny turned into a ten-year depression and was political gold for the statist Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
This all leads me to suspect that the political course charted by Axelrod would probably include massive governmental bill after bill after bill and greater regulatory scrutiny (maybe a ten-year depression?) and political gold for the statist Democratic President Barack Obama.
The problem is that it didn’t work. And despite all of Axelrod’s protestations to the contrary, it appears that his words sound like the words of a spin doctor trying to turn failure into proof of integrity. I think it’s just proof of failure.
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David Axelrod, being grilled on a lot of the economic stuff that’s gone down in this administration, has been accused of being overly enthralled with President Obama to politically think straight. His response is one of those quotes that has a delicious ironic sting to it.
First, Axelrod begins with “Believe me,” which seems to always signal that there is something about to be said that’s not credible. And what follows proves that at least in this case the automatic suspicion is warranted. Axelrod wants us to “believe him” that an effective political exercise does not include massive government bills in times of trouble.
History would suggest exactly the opposite. This last crisis is said to be second only to the Great Depression. And in the Great Depression, a banking crisis followed by massive governmental bill after bill after bill and greater regulatory scrutiny turned into a ten-year depression and was political gold for the statist Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
This all leads me to suspect that the political course charted by Axelrod would probably include massive governmental bill after bill after bill and greater regulatory scrutiny (maybe a ten-year depression?) and political gold for the statist Democratic President Barack Obama.
The problem is that it didn’t work. And despite all of Axelrod’s protestations to the contrary, it appears that his words sound like the words of a spin doctor trying to turn failure into proof of integrity. I think it’s just proof of failure.
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