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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bob McDonnell: Republican Governors, Not Obama, Deserve Credit For Rising Economy [View all]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/05/bob-mcdonnell-republican-governors-credit-economy_n_1255994.html?ref=mostpopularFrom the Department of it takes Big Balls:
Bob McDonnell: Republican Governors, Not Obama, Deserve Credit For Rising Economy
WASHINGTON -- Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said Sunday that Republican governors deserve credit for
the improving economy.
"I'm glad the economy is starting to recover, but I think it's because of what Republican governors are
doing in their states, not because of the president," McDonnell said on CNN's "State of the Union with
Candy Crowley."
McDonnell did not elaborate on what the governors have done. But he said Republican governors are
in charge of more states with positive economic conditions. "Eleven out of the top 15 states in America
that are ranked by CNBC as top places to do business are Republican states," he said. "Seven out of the
10 states that have had the biggest drop in unemployment are states run by Republican governors."
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"This race is coming down to three things. It's leadership, it's jobs, and it's the national debt and deficit,"
McDonnell said. "And on all of those, President Obama's failed. He spends most of his time blaming
Republicans and the Tea Party and Wall Street for all the problems in the country and not taking responsibility.
He's completely failed to get the national debt and deficit under control. He's contributed nearly $5 trillion
to the national debt with no plan to get out of it.
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Of course McDonnell did not say what he and the other republican governors have done ....
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Botany
Feb 2012
OP
That's a good way to frame it...they have done nothing but create unemployment...
rfranklin
Feb 2012
#6
Uh, the jobs numbers would be BETTER if it weren't for the public sector losses.
HughBeaumont
Feb 2012
#5
What part of the stimulus did was to inject capital into the market @ a time when ....
Botany
Feb 2012
#23
They may be the 'top places to do business', but not the ones I want to live in.
sinkingfeeling
Feb 2012
#20