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Americas potential, said Carly Fiorina, is being crushed. Americas military, said Marco Rubio, is being eviscerated. Working people, said Mike Huckabee, are taking a gut punch. The idea of America, said Bobby Jindal, is slipping away.Donald Trump, as usual, went even further: We dont have a country.
Last nights Republican debate in the Reagan Library was not about Morning in America. It was more like Darkness at Noon. Jeb Bush did call for the party to embrace a Reaganesque sense of optimism, which he contrasted with the Donald Trump approach of Everything is bad, everything is coming to an end. But with occasional exceptions, usually involving the softer-edged John Kasich, the Trump approach dominated. For five hours, the candidates stood in front of Reagans plane and described America as a declining nation in a dystopic world, as they pledged, to borrow a phrase, to Make America Great Again.
The big question of 2016 could well be whether Americans agree with the Republican portrait of Obama-era malaise. It was taken for granted last night that the national debt is out of control, the economy is deteriorating, the government is corrupt, and the world, as Lindsey Graham put it, is on fire. Rubio complained that our left-wing government is undermining all the institutions that support the family. Ted Cruz declared that the Iran nuclear deal would turn the Obama administration into the worlds largest financier of Islamic terror. Chris Christie said the middle class is getting plowed over by Barack Obama. The one thing the Republicans didnt seem too concerned about was climate change, which they agreed was not a problem worthy of solutions that might increase utility bills at a time when average Americans, as Rick Santorum put it, are losing ground.
Obama provided an alternative view yesterday before the debate, making the case before the Business Roundtable that Americas great right now. He later tweeted some supporting evidence that wasnt mentioned last night on CNN: U.S. businesses have added 13 million jobs over 66 straight months of employment growth, with the jobless rate dropping from 10% to 5%. The budget deficit has fallen from nearly 10% of GDP to less than 3% under Obama, while the uninsured rate has fallen from 15.4% to 9.2% under Obamacare. The U.S. auto industry, on the brink of extinction before Obamas bailout, is on pace for its best year since 2001.
More at http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/09/policy-analysis-cnn-gop-debate-000244
randys1
(16,286 posts)around the planet has never been more golden, our jobs and economy while still crap for average people at least was saved from total ruin by the worst and most corrupt presidents of all time, Reagan and W.
In alternate universe, none of the FACTS are true.
If you are GOP you have to ignore ALL facts.