This Time, It's Not The Economy - NYT (Oh really?)

[WePurrsevere]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/business/24econ.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

In many ways, the economy has not looked so good in a long time.

The price of gas at the pump has tumbled since midsummer. Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level in more than five years. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average has finally returned to its glory days of the late 1990’s, setting records almost daily.

President Bush, in hopes of winning credit for his party’s stewardship of the economy, is spending two days this week campaigning on the theme that the economy is purring. “No question that a strong economy is going to help our candidates,” Mr. Bush said in a CNBC interview yesterday, “primarily because they have got something to run on, they can say our economy’s good because I voted for tax relief.”

But Republican candidates do not seem to be getting any traction from the glowing economic statistics with midterm elections just two weeks away.

Maybe a good part of the reason they're not getting "any traction" is because many of us don't see the reality of this supposedly "good" economy and have a feeling that it's all political horse puckey so don't totally believe the "rah rah" song and dance.

[Craftsman]

1. The economy is an issue with me

That is one of the reasons I am supporting Nick Lampson

[Odin2005]

2. This is fucking surreal

This is the Pukes' "let them eat cake" moment.