Reply #1: Recall December 2000.

[denverbill]

Shrub had just been annoited Boy King. Shrub and his gang began to talk about how horrible the economy was. Over and over, day after day, despite there being no real sign of any problems. Democrats started to criticize Shrubby because his continual bad-mouthing of the economy was starting to make business rethink hiring and expansion plans, especially since the only reason he was bad-mouthing it was to build support for his idiotic tax cuts.

Sure enough, only a few short months later, we were in a recession. Republicans at the time insisted it was impossible to bad-mouth an economy into a recession.

Oddly enough, the economy now is WAY WAY WAY worse than when Shrub took office, but Shrub isn't begging for more tax cuts, or talking about how bad the economy is.

Despite the fact that we have a $500 billion budget deficit, record high gas prices, resurgent inflation, millions of lost jobs, etc, etc.