The Rapid Economic Recovery Republicans Are Praying Against

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The Rapid Economic Recovery Republicans Are Praying Against


President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden

Brian Beutler January 9, 2012, 5:20 AM



Everything that’s supposed to happen in politics this year, and everything that has happened for the last several months, has been premised on the tacit, but seemingly safe assumption: The economy will remain weak for years.

This has underlined Congressional jobs bill theatrics, campaign rhetoric about Obama’s record, debates about who’s to blame for high unemployment, and which party best represents the interests of the middle class.

But what if that assumption is wrong?

A contrarian school of thought holds that it is wrong — and its proponents have a growing cache of evidence to back them up.

If these evidence-based optimists are correct the political implications will be vast — as we all saw on Friday when a promising jobs report from the Department of Labor alighted into the political consciousness the possibility that a robust economic recovery could take hold imminently, and thus overturn a year’s worth of conventional wisdom about the trajcectory of the 2012 election.

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[RC]

1. The single most powerful thing that is helping the recovery the most is

there is an presidential election coming in November.

After that, look for it to flatten because we will have again voted for the familiar name.
If the Republicans succeed well enough in their election frauds, look for the economy to tank.