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Bill USA

(6,436 posts) Wed Mar 28, 2012, 08:45 PM Mar 2012

Cast blame or take credit? Boehner pressed to pull a shell game on the economy

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/218305-cast-blame-or-take-credit-boehner-pressed-to-switch

In a break with party leaders, some House Republicans want the GOP to take credit for the improvement in the economy that has occurred under their majority.

It’s an economic argument that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has thus far rejected, despite the fact that the unemployment rate has fallen by nearly a full percentage point in the nearly 15 months since Republicans took control of the House.

“I don’t know why they don’t make it, but I believe it’s the truth,” said freshman Rep. Jeff Landry (R-La.). “I believe that if anybody’s going to get a pat on the back for [lower] unemployment and the better economy, it’s House Republicans, and not the president and not the Senate.”

Landry last week sat on a panel of House conservatives at the Heritage Foundation, where a fellow freshman, Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho), held up charts highlighting the gains in the economy under the GOP majority.

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Cast blame or take credit? Boehner pressed to pull a shell game on the economy (Original Post) Bill USA Mar 2012 OP

Being Republicans, they will try to have both liberal N proud Mar 2012 #1

Take credit for doing, what? Thor_MN Mar 2012 #2

liberal N proud

(61,203 posts)

1. Being Republicans, they will try to have both

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 08:53 PM

Mar 2012

Take the credit and pass any blame they can.

They talk out of both sides of their mouths everytime they open it.

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)

2. Take credit for doing, what?

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 11:23 PM

Mar 2012

The GOP is setting new records for thumb sitting.

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