It’s nothing to cheer about.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Some improvement, but not enough. Still looks like a slowing economy. Whoever is president will probably inherit a recession next year. But one candidate actually knows how to get us out of it.
DC residents will be the first to taste ObamaCare’s bitter medicine.
Obama didn’t do poorly because he was tired or off his game. It was because his ideas stink on ice.
Somebody else built that, and it wasn’t the government. And like Carnegie, he is an immigrant.
Three charts that prove the blind squirrel found an acorn.
[Update a while later]
Poor media. Biden has forced them to actually cover the middle class:
On the Biden remark, the media sure seemed miffed to have to respond to the Romney campaign (hey, who’s running this race anyway!), and more importantly to be dragged against their will into a policy discussion. Now that was the reason, of course, the Romney-Ryan ticket pounced on Biden. They’ve been talking about their five-point plan to restore the middle class for months, but the media yawns. Two conservative studies were released Tuesday showing that the middle class will shoulder some of the tax burden associated with debt repayment. Again, the media yawned. So when opportunity presented itself, who could blame the Romney-Ryan team for ramping up the volume? At least they got the media to report that the middle class has lost ground under Obama.
And that darn Ryan, with his gaffe about how he agrees with Joe.
I’d like to see a lot of these signs.
Of course, they would be vandalized by the Obamabots.
…du jour:
Elect a big-spending no-show community organizer (who golfs all day) as the government’s bread-winner in chief, and government income plummets and debts skyrocket. Any medieval village idiot could’ve predicted that as an inevitability, no? 😀
Obama’s solution? Demand that the few people who still have a job give him more money, faster! Then call them stingy because they’re not tossing enough $20′s in his violin case. Maybe if he had an economic model that wasn’t based on bitching, bailouts, begging, browbeating, borrowing, bragging, bribing, bamboozling, and bankrupting the bourgeiosie, the economy would recover on its own.
A brilliant blast.
That’s what the Romney plan isn’t, despite the Obama campaign lies.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related: The Romney stimulus:
Firing Obama alone would not come close to curing our economic problems, but it might reassure many that the White House will stop making them worse. Romney certainly believes this. Buried in all the coverage of his lamentable comments about the “47%” was this assurance: “If we win on Nov. 6, there will be a great deal of optimism about the future of this country. And we’ll see capital come back and we’ll see, without actually doing anything, we’ll actually get a boost in the economy.”
At this point, psychology might be as important as policy. If even 10% of the money figuratively sitting in mattresses gets invested once Obama is out of office, that would be a much bigger stimulus than Obama’s, and no doubt far better spent. Oh, and it would not only be better spent, it also wouldn’t be borrowed from China.
Romney has to get across the message that Obama inherited a mess, and made it much worse. It’s a powerful one, and it has the additional virtue of being completely true.
Is Barack Obama introducing it to the U.S.?
Of course he is.
[Update a few minutes later]
The Powerline post reminds me of this post from almost four years ago.
[Update a while later]
Related: the New Left fascists. Not that much different than the old ones, really.
