07.08.11
The President left the building, replaced by tape recorder and cardboard standee
From the wire, things a computer program or tape-recorder could furnish:
“The economy as a whole just isn’t producing nearly enough jobs for everybody who’s looking,” Obama said in prepared comments in the White House Rose Garden. He cited “tough headwinds” that are exerting a drag on the economy …
He also cited the need to “rein in the deficit” and come to an agreement to raise the debt ceiling, in order to give businesses the confidence they need to start hiring.
Most economists believe that cutting spending will reduce growth …
When the Associated Press note-taking piece immediately tacks on the “most economists believe” bit, it’s done for.
Whatever is driving the President now, no one with any sense can fathom it other than to state he’s bought into the right wing delusion on government spending and deficits causing the country’s failure. And that it’s linked to a groupthink of the worst kind.
Which puts the man more in line with Ted Nugent’s latest column condemning him at the WaTimes than Paul Krugman’s at the New York Times.
It’s jaw-dropping.
In 2012 it won’t matter if the parts of the Democratic base simply don’t vote for the man. The state is a lock. But it’s astoundingly demoralizing to know the President has calculated he can install horrendous policy because we’ll hold our noses and vote for him since the alternative is so much worse.