{"id":10037,"date":"2012-02-05T15:18:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T20:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=10037"},"modified":"2012-02-05T15:18:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T20:18:07","slug":"bob-mcdonnell-gop-governors-deserve-credit-for-the-recovery-not-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/02\/05\/bob-mcdonnell-gop-governors-deserve-credit-for-the-recovery-not-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob McDonnell: GOP Governors Deserve Credit For The Recovery, Not Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently some real eye-opening information came out on today&#8217;s <em>State Of The Union<\/em> program on CNN. Talking Points Memo headlined it as, <a title=\"Talking Points Memo article\" href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/02\/mcdonnell-gop-governors-deserve-credit-for-the-recovery-not-obama.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bob McDonnell: GOP Governors Deserve Credit For The Recovery, Not Obama<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Virginia Governor and Mitt Romney surrogate Bob McDonnell (R) on Sunday floated what may turn into a Republican talking point if the economy continues to improve: It wasn\u2019t President Obama who made it happen, it was the GOP governors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I\u2019m glad the economy is starting to recover, but I think it\u2019s because of what Republican governors are doing in their states, not because of the president,\u201d McDonnell said on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can hardly wait to hear what the Republican governors are doing to help the economy recover.\u00a0 They could claim that by balancing state budgets and laying off hundreds of thousands of state employees, that the newly unemployed stimulated the economy.\u00a0 They could claim that by attacking workers rights, that the new lower pay and benefits the workers received helped stimulate the economy.\u00a0 They could claim that stealing companies and their jobs from other states by offering companies tax cut incentives to relocate that they stimulated the national economy.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the above points are not their claims to success.\u00a0 Surely they must have some hard evidence to back up their claims.\u00a0 Of course it is interesting that states like Massachusetts with a Democratic governor and state legislature are leading the recovery.\u00a0 So enticing companies away from Massachusetts with their state government bailouts in some way is helping Massachusetts.\u00a0 Maybe they are just taking the bad companies off of our hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently some real eye-opening information came out on today&#8217;s State Of The Union program on CNN. Talking Points Memo headlined it as, Bob McDonnell: GOP Governors Deserve Credit For The Recovery, Not Obama. Virginia Governor and Mitt Romney surrogate Bob McDonnell (R) on Sunday floated what may turn into a Republican talking point if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10040,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037\/revisions\/10040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}