I was going to write something like this today, but former Air America CEO Doug Kreeger beat me to it. I'll just add that Obama gave the GOP this opening by courting Republican opinion instead of loudly denouncing them as the party that gave us this economic disaster.
Not that they wouldn't have done this anyway, but Obama legitimized them at a time the nation should be attacking them with pitchforks:
Last week, Obama's plans were debated in Congress. His goal of creating 2 million to 3 million jobs in the next two years through a massive rebuilding program of our crumbling infrastructure, was countered by the Republicans' revised stimulus plan. Their plan was not detailed beyond more tax cuts.
Here's the catch: The Republicans said their plan would create 6 million jobs. Really. Remember "Mission Accomplished"? Just saying something doesn't make it true.
The Republican playbook is about standing in opposition, knowing full well that the Democratic Congress is going to pass a stimulus package. Their next step is to go home and sell to what's left of their constituencies the notion that if we had listened to them, things would be far rosier. As a minority, a control group is unlikely to emerge that can disprove false numbers based on false rhetoric. They can go back and campaign in two years whether or not Obama's plan creates anywhere close to the number he hopes and tell the world, and claim that their plan would have provided double the number.
A perfectly manipulative strategy which plays to the short-term memory of the American electorate.
rest http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/talk-show-republicans-are-winning-sti
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