RNC Spokeswoman: Republican Economic Platform Will Be The Bush Program, ‘Just Updated’

[ProSense]

RNC Spokeswoman: Republican Economic Platform Will Be The Bush Program, ‘Just Updated’

By Pat Garofalo

During an interview last week on The Fernando Espuelas Show, Alexandra Franceschi, Specialty Media Press Secretary of the Republican National Committee, said that the Republican party’s economic platform in 2012 is going to be the same as it was during the Bush years, “just updated”:

ESPUELAS: What do you mean by economic security? Regardless of who the ultimate nominee is, what’s the general idea that the RNC, or the Republican party in general, has in terms of this message?

FRANCESCHI: Well, it’s a message of being able to attain the American dream. It’s less government spending, which a Tarrance Group poll, came out last week actually, shows that the majority of Hispanics believe that less government spending is the way out of this deficit crisis. It’s lowering taxes so small businesses can grow and they can employ more people, because we understand that the private sector is the engine of the economy. It’s not the government. [...]

ESPUELAS: Now, how different is that concept from what were the policies of the Bush administration? And the reason I ask that is because there’s some analysis now that is being published talking about the Bush years being the slowest period of job creation since those statistics were created. Is this a different program or is this that program just updated?

FRANCESCHI: I think it’s that program, just updated.

Listen here:

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As a result of the Bush economic platform, “growth in investment, GDP, and employment all posted their worst performance of any post-war expansion,” while “overall monthly job growth was the worst of any cycle since at least February 1945, and household income growth was negative for the first cycle since tracking began in 1967.” Meanwhile, the deficit and debt exploded. It would have to be quite the update for the GOP to make anything better happen this time around.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/23/469123/rnc-spokeswoman-republican-economic-platform-will-be-the-bush-program-just-updated/

This explains why the Republicans' strategy is to rewrite history.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002588534

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002599426

[HughBeaumont]

1. "Updated" = "We plan on being worse to the middle/working/poor . . . "

" . . . than . . . that guy whose term hypothetically existed between January 2001 and January 2009 . . . whoever he was . . ."

[Turbineguy]

2. Maybe finally finishing off western civilization

would be a good thing. I would prefer to see it evolve to something better. Revolutions are so messy.

[JHB]

3. So... post tech bubble, without any housing bubble to paper over the hollows?

Apparently some people who aren't billionaires still have some money, so Wall Street is gearing up to siphon that up.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. That will make a great bumper sticker for Dems ! nt

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Next question should have been, "Is that because Romeny and the GOP have

no new ideas?"

[MrScorpio]

6. In other words, they plan on destroying the nation where Bush had failed. nt

[hifiguy]

7. Double down on failure to

finish off the 99%. That's sure to be a winning message....

[annabanana]

8. "Specialty Media Press Secretary"?

WTF is that? A press person that only does economics?

A special carve out for woman?

Are there many of them? Does each "special interest" get it's own "Specialty Media Press Secretary"?

[Scurrilous]

9. Thanks.

K & R

[Dawson Leery]

10. 60% fault Bush and his policies for the current economic situation.

Thanks.