The GOP’s Big Lie on Obama and jobs

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2. It's like the Bush years never happened

Everything bad that happened for Bush (and there were plenty of them early on, also later on, and later on, and later on), the Republicans were quick to say that it was all because of those bad old Clinton years. Even into his second term, Republicans could be counted on to ignore any failings of the Bush administration, and attribute them to Clinton.

But according to these same Republicans, Obama is responsible for everything that happened from the minute he was sworn in, if not before. TARP is laid at Obama's feet, even though it was passed during the waning moments of the Bush administration. Now Gingrich is carping on the net jobs of the Obama administration? Republicans couldn't be bothered with net job losses or gains during the Bush years. In fact, I think Bush the Stupider was the first president ever to leave office with net negative job numbers. Somehow that doesn't impress itself on the Republican mind.