Do Dems Believe that Obama has ‘Turned the Economy Around’?

June 13, 2011

FYI, a similar version of this release below went out to the following districts: Jason Altmire (PA-04), John Barrow (GA-12), Sanford Bishop (GA-02), Tim Bishop (NY-01), Dan Boren (OK-02), Leonard Boswell (IA-03), Bruce Braley (IA-01), Dennis Cardoza (CA-18), Russ Carnahan (MO-03), Ben Chandler (KY-06), David Cicilline (RI-01), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Jim Cooper (TN-05), Jim Costa (CA-20), Jerry Costello (IL-12), Mark Critz (PA-12), Henry Cuellar (TX-28), Peter DeFazio (OR-04), Joe Donnelly (IN-02), Raul Grijalva (AZ-07), Martin Heinrich (NM-01), Brian Higgins (NY-27), Jim Himes (CT-04), Ruben Hinojosa (TX-15), Kathy Hochul (NY-26), Tim Holden (PA-17), Rush Holt (NJ-12), Jay Inslee (WA-01), Steve Israel (NY-02), Bill Keating (MA-10), Dale Kildee (MI-05), Ron Kind (WI-03), Larry Kissell (NC-08), Rick Larsen (WA-02), David Loebsack (IA-02), Jim Matheson (UT-02), Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04), Mike McIntyre (NC-07), Jerry McNerney (CA-11), Michael Michaud (ME-02), Brad Miller (NC-13), Bill Owens (NY-23), Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), Gary Peters (MI-09), Collin Peterson (MN-07), Chellie Pingree (ME-01), David Price (NC-04), Nick Rahall (WV-03), Mike Ross (AR-04), Loretta Sanchez (CA-47), Kurt Schrader (OR-05), Heath Shuler (NC-11), Adam Smith (WA-09), Betty Sutton (OH-13), John Tierney (MA-06), Niki Tsongas (MA-05), Pete Visclosky (IN-01), Tim Walz (MN-01), Anthony Weiner (NY-09), David Wu (OR-01), John Yarmuth (KY-03)

Does Ross Believe that Obama has ‘Turned the Economy Around’?
Democrat Party Chair Says Their Job-Killing Policies Were Able to “Turn This Economy Around” While Middle-Class Families Suffer from a Weak Economy

Washington — Although the economic realities facing American middle-class families remain dire and unpredictable, Mike Ross’ Democrat leaders seem negligent to the damage that their economic policies have done. If Ross agrees with his party Chairwoman that the Democrats’ devastating policies have fixed the economy, he is clearly out-of-touch with Arkansas’ middle class families and the dire situation they are currently in.

“Mike Ross’ party leaders have made it clear they are more interested in advancing and defending their devastating policies than accepting the catastrophic reality of their job-stifling agenda or the dire economic realities Arkansas families have to face every day,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “If he can’t admit his own Democrat policies have failed miserably, Ross is demonstrating how remarkably out of touch he is with the most urgent needs of middle-class families and small businesses in Arkansas.”

On Sunday, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz ignored economic reality, declaring that Democrat policies have been able to “turn this economy around” successfully:

MR. GREGORY: Sixty percent almost, 59 percent, disapprove of the president’s handling of the economy. And there are facts that back that up that are difficult for this administration and for the Democrats: unemployment’s up 25 percent since Inauguration Day for President Obama; the debt’s up 35 percent, over $14 trillion; a gallon of gas up over 100 percent, with gas $3.75, higher than that in certain parts of the country. Why should Americans trust Democratic governance right now on the economy, and particularly the president’s?

REP. SCHULTZ: Because we were able to, under President Obama’s leadership, turn this economy around. When President Obama took office…

MR. GREGORY: Whoa, whoa, let me just stop you there. Clearly, the economy has not been turned around. I mean, you just saw those numbers.

REP. SCHULTZ: It, it certainly–it has…

MR. GREGORY: Americans don’t believe that’s the case. (Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, NBC’s “Meet the Press,” 6/12/11)

Clearly Mike Ross’ Democrat leaders are negligent of the obvious failure of their job-crushing policies in addition to the real needs of American middle-class families. Does that mean Ross agrees that his own policies have left the economy in its current state, or does he stand beside them and deny that families and small businesses in Arkansas actually need relief?

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