Wasserman Schultz strikes again: “We own the economy,” she says
posted at 4:25 pm on June 15, 2011 by Tina Korbe
She’s not backing down. Let the Republican National Committee poke all the fun it wants, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz stands by what she said: The nation is in an economic turnaround and Democrats deserve the credit.
“We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place,” Wasserman Schultz told Mike Allen at a breakfast hosted by POLITICO’s Playbook.
The economy, she said, “has turned around” since President Obama took office, with steady job growth evident even if the pace leaves something to be desired.
The facts highlighted in the RNC’s most recent video deserve review: 9.1 percent unemployment. More than 6 million foreclosures. About 1 million construction jobs lost. Some 865,000 manufacturing jobs lost. An enormous $3.7 trillion added to the national debt. Three straight record high deficits. Strange equation for an economic turnaround!
But DWS said something else at the Politico Playbook breakfast — something unrelated to the economy, but, with which, I — much to my chagrin — half-heartedly agree. It’s unfair, Wasserman-Schultz said, for the media to pit former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) against one another as (potential) presidential candidates just because they’re both women.
“Even though I don’t agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything,” she said, to laughter from the audience, “I do think the unique scrutiny … because of their gender” and “highlighting the potential conflict between them” is a product of the media’s desire for juicy storylines. “I think it’s inappropriate.”
But, even in this, Wasserman-Schultz is two days late and trillions of dollars short: Since Monday, when Bachmann wowed viewers at the second GOP presidential debate, the Bachmann v. Palin storyline seems especially tired (not that it has died down — Google News turns up new stories on the theme pretty reliably every 15 minutes or so — but it should have). Speculation about a Palin presidential run continues, but Bachmann is clearly a candidate in her own right, not merely an alternative to Palin (or an establishment obstacle to Palin pitching her hat in the ring).
Either way, Wasserman-Schultz is right about identity politics — she just failed to recognize which side feeds that. Plenty of room over here on the right for as many people — men and women alike — as want to articulate the truth clearly. Guess that means Wasserman-Schultz need not apply.
Update: This post originally mistakenly said the CNN debate Monday was the “first” GOP presidential debate, when, in fact, it was the second.
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it won’t happen here.
too many idiots and, again, a D majority.
since the 2 yrs of R majority (2010 was historic for maine) could not fix decades of D issues the idiots here went back to D.
most people here deserve to starve to death.
dmacleo on May 11, 2013 at 7:07 PM
Needed the Atomic bomb picture..
Electrongod on May 11, 2013 at 7:07 PM
…its Maine!…where the girls think they are Republicans…that Maine?
KOOLAID2 on May 11, 2013 at 7:12 PM
I shudder when I think about what will happen in Maine when our common sense Governor is no longer in office. Maine is the best state I’ve ever lived in, but sadly it’s only one breath away from becoming another liberal Hellhole due to an overabundance of misguided or willfully ignorant voters.
Birchbark on May 11, 2013 at 7:19 PM
The Borg. Always we will fight the Borg.
M240H on May 11, 2013 at 7:31 PM
Well, that’ll have our Progs clutching their pearls and saying cutting, cutting things about our governor! AKA ‘business as usual’.
PersonFromPorlock on May 11, 2013 at 7:32 PM
Plus, the turbines make a huge sound when they whip down and cast weird shadows with their huge blades. Drives people crazy. Oh, they kill endangered birds, too.
PattyJ on May 11, 2013 at 7:40 PM
Yes….what he really is saying is that he’d like to be able say the wind initiative was a resounding success even if not 1 watt was ever produced. You see, success comes from feeling good about wasting someone else’s money.
BobMbx on May 11, 2013 at 7:40 PM
Out here in the sunny People’s Republik of Kalifornia, we’re still inhaling.
Gonna grow wind, cut all that evil carbon-heavy reliance on fossil fuels. AND solar!
Right now they’re paying a professor in San Diego to come up with a computer-run program to forecast when cloud cover will cause solar input to the grid to drop.
Gotta get power to replace what will be lost. Of course they haven’t gotten around to forecasting when the wind will drop, and cut output.
The grid will “magically” correct itself, and rainbow colored unicorns will make up the short fall so that the grid doesn’t crash.
Just ask Moonbeam. IF you can tear him away from his choo-choo.
GarandFan on May 11, 2013 at 7:43 PM
Wind power is all about democrats enriching donors and cronies based on exploiting the ignorant and imbecilic.
tom daschle concerned on May 11, 2013 at 7:45 PM
born here,live in Etna
its a hole now since early 90′s.
dmacleo on May 11, 2013 at 7:48 PM
Start spreading the rumor that windmills could hurt Moochelle’s taxpayer lobster supply and that could impede the implementation of this latest green fiasco.
That, and make PETA aware that if you really want to smack birds out of the sky a ginormous windmill is a fantastic ornithoblenderizer.
viking01 on May 11, 2013 at 7:49 PM
What will we do with all of those unicorns?
BDavis on May 11, 2013 at 7:58 PM
What will we do with all of those unicorns?BDavis on May 11, 2013 at 7:58 PM
As nonpartisan said..
Fluck them..
Electrongod on May 11, 2013 at 8:02 PM
Wind power: the energy of the future …. since the 16th century.
PackerBronco on May 11, 2013 at 8:09 PM
The problem here in MidCoast maine, (I live in Bath) is that the local newspapers are really democrat propaganda organs. Maine’s largest daily, the Portland Press herald, is owned by the husband of Democrat
CongressmanCongresswoman Chellie Pingree. Any guess as to how the news is shaded up here?But to add even more interest to this fire, that Wind Energy law passed while Baldacci was governor was written to help out former governor, and current Maine US Senator Angus King and his pet energy projects. Where, or where, do you think King got all his money to run for office from? His wife Mary is a social bar fly too, and fits right in with the self-appointed aristocracy in Washington.
There is a huge stench of corruption all over that Wind Energy bill, and a lot of it is coming from Baldacci and King, and it’s way past time that those two were the subject of state and federal investigations.
TKindred on May 11, 2013 at 8:09 PM
The state can simply relocate those at-risk birds to avian work collectives where they can contribute productively to History. Of course, their wings must be clipped, for their own good, to keep them from flying back into the people’s wind turbine power production zone, and also for equality, because it’s not fair that they should fly, when so many other revolutionary working plants and animals cannot.
Kenosha Kid on May 11, 2013 at 8:10 PM
Wind power: the environmentally-correct way of committing avicide.
PackerBronco on May 11, 2013 at 8:12 PM
Maine would be a great place to expand the “natural gas infrastructure”. There’s a huge LNG (liquefied natural gas) import terminal about 90 miles over the border in New Brunswick (Canada), and Maine would be the first in line to receive the gas not used by the Canadians. It’s closer than shipping fracked gas from Pennsylvania.
Steve Z on May 11, 2013 at 8:13 PM
Green energy: producing energy through the process of burning money.
PackerBronco on May 11, 2013 at 8:13 PM
We expect to freeze to death in Montana if the epa gets its way and closes down all the coal fired power plants. I think someone warned them and they are starting to rethink the new lower mandated emission levels. One cold day a few years from now, we won’t be able to drive the cars we currently own, use our lawn mowers or heat our homes(if we still own one)after the greenies and govt gets through with us.
Kissmygrits on May 11, 2013 at 9:35 PM
The UK study showing wind turbines only last 12-15 years instead of 25-30 showed that the promises were near scandalous.
theperfecteconomist on May 11, 2013 at 10:20 PM
All of that was predicted in a SciFi novel by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and others entitled “Fallen Angels”.
It’s frighteningly prescient.
TKindred on May 11, 2013 at 11:36 PM
Wow, it is almost as if just wishing will NOT make it so!
Adjoran on May 12, 2013 at 1:53 AM
If T Boone Pickens couldn’t make it work in Texas, it ain’t gonna work.
txhsmom on May 12, 2013 at 3:39 AM
Government subsidized Wind Companies won’t face charges in condor deaths.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-killing-condors-20130511,0,1790222.story
Obama has tossed California Condors under the bus in favor of windmill power – and kick backs from chronies.
papertiger on May 12, 2013 at 4:57 AM
Ayuh! Left Maine some time ago for the bright sunny climes of Connecticut. It’s even worse down here but there was work at the time! What we need is a concerted effort to change the main stream media into telling the truth instead of propagandizing 24/7.
Boats48 on May 12, 2013 at 5:52 AM
Like Ethanol that reduces gas mileage, increase engine wear, drives up the price of food and every other product dependent on corn, and doesn’t do anything for the environment; wind, solar, electric car, and other green disasters are here to stay.
Why?
Because they are politically drive agendas that allow politicians to control huge sums of money for votes and significantly increases government control over every aspect of our lives. Oh yeah, and they get to do all of this with other people’s money without being held accountable for their miserable failures. The latter due mostly to low and no-information voters.
But the most amazing aspect to all of this is that it was 100% predictable as clearly and publicly highlighted by those who have opposed government mandated Ethanol, wind, solar, electric cars, and the other green nonsense.
Facts have never been of much concern when a politician can seize the opportunity to flush other peoples’ hard earned money down the political toilets.
No, politics have and will continue trump reason, logic, efficiency, and good government.
BMF on May 12, 2013 at 6:19 AM
Wind energy could have become a reliable peak demand electrical producer but the utilities were forced to buy the lousy electricity they produce whenever they produce it.
Slowburn on May 12, 2013 at 6:44 AM
When has a Progressive initiative EVER been rolled back, curtailed, repealed, reduced, or otherwise rethought?
Cleombrotus on May 12, 2013 at 6:58 AM
Without a war or other major civil upheaval, that is.
Cleombrotus on May 12, 2013 at 6:59 AM
Ya but it’s not cool
david kumbera on May 12, 2013 at 9:55 AM
So like PV solar it never will payback unless energy costs soar.
1+1=POTATO
jukin3 on May 12, 2013 at 10:56 AM
Capacity. That is the amount of electricity produced under ideal conditions. What is the actual output? Typically it is less than 10% of advertised capacity. And at times, actual output is zero.
iurockhead on May 12, 2013 at 11:33 AM
I’m from a little town on the Maine coast, Eastport. They talked about putting an LNG terminal in the area. Would have created a crapload of jobs, and helped energy costs. But no, out of state libtards, looking to turn the area into Cape Cod North…… So glad I left. Nearly 20 years now.
DStreete on May 12, 2013 at 7:04 PM