DNC Chair Kaine’s Shameless Statement
Gretawire just posted DNC Chairman Tim Kaine’s statement on the Steele-Rush tempest in a teapot. Calling it a lame statement is giving Gov. Kaine far too much credit. Here’s one of the lamest parts of Gov. Kaine’s statement:
“As Congress works to pass the President’s budget, Republicans need to stop following divisive figures like Rush Limbaugh, stop apologizing to him and put aside the failed politics of the past so we can put our economy back on track, reform our health care system, break our dependence on foreign oil, improve our schools, and lay the foundation for long-term growth in the 21st Century.”
This tempest in a teapot will undoubtedly be used in DNC and candidate fundraising letters. It undoubtedly will get the nutroots to pry into their wallets with great fervor.
This statement’s real purpose, though, is to distract people’s attention from President Obama’s disastrous economic policies. President Obama’s policies are thinning out retirement accounts. President Obama’s policies aren’t solutions.
Since President Obama’s election, the stock market has dropped from 9,717 to today’s low of 6,737, a drop of 2,980 points. That represents a 31 percent drop since then-Sen. Obama was elected.
It’s stunningly dishonest of Gov. Kaine to say that President Obama’s policies will “lay the foundation for long-term growth in the 21st Century” or that they’ll “put our economy back on track” much less free us from our dependence on foreign oil.
The only thing President Obama’s policies have done is dealt a death blow to people’s 401(k)’s by turning them into 104(k)’s while putting people out of work. What’s worse is that President Obama’s rhetoric has turned this recession into a deeper, long-lasting recession.
It’s time that the DNC stopped with playing such lame partisan games. It’s time the Democratic Party to get serious about righting the wrongheaded policies of the Obama administration before we’re all in souplines.
I’d love reading the polling results asking whether people are better off now than on Election Day, 2008 or if they aren’t as well off. I can’t imagine people are happy with the direction President Obama and the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are taking us.
That’s far more important than a squabble between the RNC Chair and Rush Limbaugh.
What’s more likely: People walking into a voting booth and saying “I can’t pull the lever for the Republican after that squabble between Rush Limbaugh and Michael Steele”? Or is it more likely that people will walk into voting booths and say “I can’t vote for the Democrat because they’ve taken our economy in the wrong direction”?
Let’s just say that I’m not betting on the former.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog