John Sexton
The anti-GOP narrative: Loaves and fishes
There’s a clever loaves and fishes trick going on with today’s major anti-GOP narrative. It begins with a sequester story Politico published last night. The story opens with the splashy claim, “Republicans open to letting billions in sequester cuts go through figure they can blame the president if the economy goes south.”
Notice they don’t say how many Republicans are thinking this way. And after a long recounting of a DCCC press release we finally get to some Republicans who argue something quite different…
These Republicans aren’t thinking about blaming anyone, they’re thinking about taking credit. So where are the blame-Obama Republicans we were promised in the lede? …
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Well we’re not really North even now.
Like it matters…the meme is the meme whether it is truth or not.
CW on February 9, 2013 at 1:25 PM
So, contra to all of the panic, a reduction in the rate of government borrowing should help the economy. On the other hand, the sequester is so small that this may be overwhelmed by other factors.
Count to 10 on February 9, 2013 at 1:27 PM
Slightly OT.
The term “anti-GOP” is becoming a descriptor of two rather large groups.
eyesky on February 9, 2013 at 1:42 PM