Reports are saying the economy is back, will Repubs get all the credit?

[LeftyAndProud60]

I'm starting to think they will. The media is filled w/ dumbasses

[Submariner]

1. Of course not

They are the party of NO. They haven't done a thing to assist in the recovery. They are nothing but obstructionists.

[Bluzmann57]

6. You know that, I know that but a lot of people don't

Or they just don't care. The media will somehow spin any sort of recovery into something the repukes have done, like the wonderful tax cuts, etc.

[ProSense]

2. Which reports are saying the economy is back?

There are signs of improvement, but the economy is still recovering.

Also, why would Republicans get credit? What in your eyes would be the justification for the media to credit Republicans who take control of the House in two days?

[HeroTwins]

3. It was Obama's Stimulus that saved the Economy. Not Republican obstruction.

[onehandle]

4. Some, if not much. That's their plan for 2012. But if the economy tanks, that's good for them too.

Elections > America, for the GOP.

[elleng]

5. Of course they will, that's the way of the world and the economy.

WE're on the 'down' side, WE take actions to repair damage THEY've done, and THEY 'take over' during up-swing WE've created. Media surely wont note/understand/report this, even tho economists will.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. It Will Be As It Always Was

The president will get the credit or blame. It's an iron law of politics.

[DrToast]

8. No, the President usually gets the credit/blame for the economy.*

*

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. The media IS filled w/ dumbasses

but the Republicans have been out of power for almost two years now and the economy hit rock- (or pretty damned close to it) bottom in 2008 while Bush was still POTUS and the Republicans had been in near-constant control of the Senate for 6 of the 8 years he was in office. How will they credibly assign credit to Republicans for recovery (or signs thereof) during the past two years given their *proud* record of obstructing every attempt made by President Obama and the Democratic Congress to make things better. Of course, facts don't matter to some people, so I imagine that the media dumbasses will find SOME way to make it seem like the Republicans had *something* to do with it. However, like others have said, whether justified or not, the blame and/or credit will ultimately fall with the President and if the economy is good, he'll get the credit, and if the economy is bad, well, 2012 will be an even better year for the Republicans (probably).

[vi5]

10. Of course. Tax Cuts stimulated the economy....

It's one of the many, many reasons why this grand compromise on tax rates was a sucker's bet on the Dems/Obama's part. If we had just unemployment extensions and just stimulus then the economy would probably still be right where it is and do the same thing.

But now it will be perfectly easy and perfectly acceptable and common knowledge that it was the tax cuts and not the stimulus and not the unemployment extensions or anything else that goosed the economy. It was the tax cuts.

Conversely, when it goes down again it will be because of all the liberal spending and regulation and letting lazy unemployed people get more benefits and not at all in any way, shape, or form because of the tax cuts.

[ladjf]

11. That's the planned script. nt

[Marsala]

12. What, like they did in 1994-1996?

The President always gets the lion's share of the credit. On the other hand, he also gets the majority of the blame, too.

[CreekDog]

13. well heck, if you don't want to talk about your posts, then neither do i

why folks post and skedaddle is beyond me.

[Clio the Leo]

14. I think today's Gallup number says they wont...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=583350&mesg_id=583843

[COLGATE4]

15. Absolutely. The general public has the attention span of a gnat.

If things are going good (or better) they immediately attribute it to whomever's in power at that time. Never mind that a few weeks (or months, or years) before things were crappy, it's the thought of the moment that gets them, amplified and repeated ad nauseam by the MSM. Today the Dow hit an all-time high - and immediately the meme on MSM was that it was due to the new Rethug House being elected. And most of our low-information public will believe it, nod their heads wisely and thank the Republicans for 'saving us from Barak Obama'.