Bob McDonnell: Republican Governors, Not Obama, Deserve Credit For Rising Economy

[Proud Liberal Dem]

21. Yikes! Very damning

What's even worse is that they took stimulus funds that they publicly smeared to help them stay afloat and help repair holes in their budgets. Once again, the Republicans are failing to take responsibility for the problems they caused while claiming all the credit for things getting better while the Kenyan Socialist is in the WH. Actually, with the economy starting to noticeably improve, they've now shifted gears from saying that the economy is in awful shape and that Kenyan Socialist in the WH is making things worse to "he could've done better". Of course, they'll never really be made to answer how but still. Of course, if this comes up in debates, then Obama can simply remind Romney and the rest of the country that many Republican governors took the much derided stimulus funds that helped them shore up their states and some governors explicitly rejected money that could have been used to create jobs and infrastructure in their states (i.e. high speed rail). Whatever else you can say about the stimulus, it certainly helped staunch the bleeding that we were were experiencing at the time and I suspect helped keep things from getting worse than what they might have been.