David Axelrod goes there: GOP may be trying to destroy economy on purpose

[cal04]

Greg Sargent
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/david-axelrod-goes-there-gop-may-be-trying-to-destroy-economy-on-purpose/2011/10/30/gIQA3sv0VM_blog.html

Here’s David Axelrod, on CNN today, pushing back on Candy Crowley’s suggestion that Obama bears some of the blame for Congress’s failure to act on the economy:

I think this is something — something different going on right now. When you have the leader — the Republican leader of the Senate say, our number one goal — in the midst of this economy, our number one goal is to defeat the president, and they’re acting like it.

They don’t want to cooperate. They don’t want to help. Even on measures to help the economy that they traditionally have supported before, like a payroll tax cut, like infrastructure, rebuilding our roads and bridges and surface transport. These — so you have to ask a question, are they willing to tear down the economy in order to tear down the president or are they going to cooperate?

And, listen, there’s a reason why the Congress is at 9 percent in some polls, approval, lowest in history. Because this is different than we’ve ever seen before.

[Gamow]

1. "may" be? Is he serious? They have directly said there are! nt

[doc03]

2. +1 Our main goal is to make sure Barack Obama

doesn't get reelected, says it all.

[GoCubsGo]

3. That's WaPo's word.

Axelrod pretty much flat-out says it's the case.

[abelenkpe]

4. Aw c'mon now we've known the republicans have been

Clearly working to destroy the economy for years. They want economic misery in the hopes that it gets blamed on democrats and they retake control of government. And more their platform since Reagan has been to shrink government to reduce it to the size where it can be drowned. They run on the promise of destroying government to free corporations.

[newspeak]

13. yeah drown any government that actually helps people

but keep the police state mechanism in place to regulate the plebes, while allowing their global friends to suck us dry.

[FarCenter]

5. At this point, there is nothing that would significantly improve the economy by election time

The fundamental problem is that Obama spent all his politcal capital during the first two years on health care, achieving a non-solution to a secondary problem.

He did not spend the first two years with a Democratic controlled Congress on fixing the economy.

It is too late now.

[Frustratedlady]

6. Spot on! EOM

[jwirr]

16. Afraid so. When anyone says they are deliberately trying to destroy

our economy someone always asks why they would do that. It is simple - they are not worried about the economy of any one nation. They are worried about the global economy of multinational corporations. The weaker the national governments the stronger the corporate control.

[newspeak]

18. BINGO!!!

I agree with you a thousand times. It's about global corporations and their power over national (regulating) governments.

[pangaia]

7. Where have you been....?

Hey, Axelrod? Where the hell have you been the last 10 years... or better.. the last 30 years.. I figured this out when Reagan was president.. Jeesh !!!!

[newspeak]

11. I'm with you!!!

I asked more than once on this board when little boot's was in-are they bringing down the economy on purpose? Like one big wealth grab and power grab by little boot's and darth cheney's "base."

[jwirr]

17. Yes, it is not just because of President Obama - they have been

practicing disaster capitalism since raygun. They are out to destroy strong national government so that corporatism can thrive.

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Glad they're waking up.

[Old and In the Way]

9. legislative treason.

You don't need to conspire with an enemy to commit treason. When you refuse to act in the best interests of this country in your capacity as a legislator in order to further your minority economic/political agenda...I think that's a treasonous act.

Nothing in their oath of office allows them to put their political interests ahead of the general welfare of this country. If the Democratic agenda in Congress doesn't help this country, you can use it against them in the next election. Refusing to allow this legislation to come to a vote is killing the very idea of democracy that this system is supposed to support.

[jaxx]

10. Axelrod said it out loud. Bravo!!!

Plenty skirt around it, but he says it as fact. And people here jump on it as not good enough.

K&R and piss on the not good enough.

[valerief]

12. But what if the Dems are playing Good Cop, Bad Cop with the GOP, too? nt

[libodem]

14. GOP wouldn't

Piss on this country if it were on fire. They hate the 99%.

[libodem]

15. And thank the Goddess

We can have a conversation about it because no one used the word p*ssy For a board that loves cats.....

[donheld]

19. duh