David Axelrod goes there: GOP may be trying to destroy economy on purpose

[Swede]

Here’s David Axelrod, on CNN today, pushing back on Candy Crowley’s suggestion that Obama bears some of the blame for Congress’s failure to act on the economy:




I think this is something — something different going on right now. When you have the leader — the Republican leader of the Senate say, our number one goal — in the midst of this economy, our number one goal is to defeat the president, and they’re acting like it.
They don’t want to cooperate. They don’t want to help. Even on measures to help the economy that they traditionally have supported before, like a payroll tax cut, like infrastructure, rebuilding our roads and bridges and surface transport. These — so you have to ask a question, are they willing to tear down the economy in order to tear down the president or are they going to cooperate?
And, listen, there’s a reason why the Congress is at nine percent in some polls, approval, lowest in history. Because this is different than we’ve ever seen before.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line

[Jack Rabbit]

1. K/R

[no_hypocrisy]

2. If you're going to accept "blame", you either have to have done something or not done something.

You can't just be there when it happens.

[libodem]

3. Good on him

It needs to be said.

[State the Obvious]

4. Emphasis should be on the words "Republican obstructionists" in Congress.....

(It is not the ENTIRE Congress that is trying to destroy the economy.) Democrats are working hard to bring life into America's economy, while"Republican obstructionists" are trying to destroy it ........"on purpose".

Again....... make this distinction!

K&R

[roguevalley]

5. And I, RV sitting in alaska with a computer and a modem go

there with David Axelrod: "Duh."

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. If only the media started to blame the GOP

[State the Obvious]

8. They won't......but we will.

President Obama spent his entire first term trying to work with Republicans, trying to be the "adult in the room". That didn't work. Now I want to hear him (and us) call it for what it is.......OBSTRUCTIONISM.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. Dems need to keep repeating it over and over again until it sticks

[robinlynne]

11. but look who owns the media.

[Nancy Waterman]

7. He is right

How else are we to understand their refusal to do anything that even a few months ago they agreed with, things that would cost nothing and are clearly helpful. Maybe they just believe their own Kool Ade, but I doubt that is all there is.

[Kolesar]

9. Good messaging, David ... eom

[donheld]

10. Is this information new to him?

Not to me.

[Major Hogwash]

12. Obama must accept part of the blame for why I didn't mow the lawn yesterday.

According to Candy Crowley.

:rofl: