Arianna Huffington: In 2009 WH Underestimated the Economic Devastation, in 2010 Dems Paid the Price

[highplainsdem]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/in-2009-the-white-house-u_b_778080.html

Arianna Huffington
Posted: November 3, 2010 02:01 AM

In 2009 the White House Underestimated the Economic Devastation, in 2010 Democrats Paid the Price


For all the hours of pre-election predictions and post-vote analysis, the 2010 midterms came down to a very simple truth: if unemployment were near double digits come November, Democrats would take a beating.

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With the "real unemployment" figures around 17 percent, it means almost no one in the country isn't being adversely affected by the economy -- or knows someone who is. And they were not going to be mollified by health care reform that doesn't kick in until 2014 and financial reform that isn't slowing down foreclosures or making borrowing money easier for small businesses.

As a result, voters no longer trust Democrats to fix things. Hard to believe, but Collier County in Florida, the county with the biggest unemployment jump in the country from March 2009 to March 2010, voted Republican.

Democrats still have the White House and still have the Senate, but they better do something about the economic devastation if they want to win back Collier County -- and the trust of the American people.

[Zoeisright]

1. Wrong.

Repukes did everything they could to ruin the economic recovery. And the compliant, repuke M$M went right along with them.

[GoCubsGo]

5. And, she aided and abetted them half the time.

Which is why I no longer read Huffy Poo.

[Tansy_Gold]

2. I think I was saying a lot of the same things last night

And last week.

And last month.

And last year.

AND RIGHT AFTER THE 2008 ELECTION.




Tansy Gold

[bread_and_roses]

3. Yep. (n/t)

[snappyturtle]

4. Yeah, I heard AH on MSNBC last night and she was saying

the same as you posted......I THOUGHT she would get, at least, a jab into the repubs for putting us into the economic crisis...wrong. Sometimes I wonder which side she is on.

[tinrobot]

6. The White House underestimated the GOP's desire for devastation

The GOP has done everything they can to prolong the economic malaise, and their plan worked. People are broke, pissed off, and voting against their own best interests.

Don't expect their plan to change in the next two years. If Republicans have their way, the economy will not get better.