Obama Advisor: Republicans Screwing Up The Economy To Hurt The President
David Axelrod, head of President Obama‘s reelection effort, has made a heated charge against republican rivals.That they are willing to hurt the country just to hurt the President.
Axelrod told Fox News “You have to wonder whether some folks over there think somehow — think screwing up the economy, throwing a wrench in the works is a good political strategy for them,” Axelrod told Fox News. “Somehow if they can slow the recovery down, if they can cost a half million or delay a half million jobs, that that will hurt the president.”
It seems pretty obvious that this is going to be a central theme in the Obama reelection effort. Republicans are messing up the country, implementing policies to hurt the poor and favor the rich and all to enrich themselves and hurt President Obama.
This has been old news for the President, who has been blaming the Republican Party for all of America’s ills for a very long time. It was widely expected that he needs to keep pressure on the GOP in order to deflect from a country with a stubbornly high unemployment number, lackluster growth and a stagnant economy which has been only creeping back up to speed.
The President’s approval number remain low and in a hypothetical match up with Republican contender Mitt Romney, Obama is a few percentage points below winning reelection.
Axelrod also addressed the surging Ex-House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, by invoking a former Chicago politician who decided it wasn’t in his interest to run for higher office. “‘The higher a monkey climbs up a pole, the more you can see his butt” I think this is what is happening to the Speaker” He said.
All of this makes for good theater, but the real question is how will the attacks play out in the general population of voters who decide Obama’s fate next year?



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Dec 20, 2011
How can we ever know how good or bad Obama is since the Republicans stop or prevent him at every turn.
Dec 20, 2011
And do people think that Oboma is a miracle worker who does majic tricks? The republicans left us in such a HUGE negative hole, at least Obama is moving us in the right direction! We need re-elect him and let him do his job!
Dec 20, 2011
Axelrod is totally right. It has been obvious to anyone watching that the Reptilian's goal is to make our economy as bad as they can make it to win back the White House, with no care for the damage it does to the stuggling millions of families.
Dec 20, 2011
Yes, they are putting up roadblocks at every turn to try their best to see that our president fails and I only hope more and more Republicans see what is going on and change their party affiliation.
Dec 20, 2011
Thank God someone is stopping Obama… because every move he makes is to spend more money, initiate another entitlement program, extend more give aways… the government cannot and never will be able to stimulate the economy except by getting the heck out of the way. Government jobs, no good. Can't pay enough taxes to support their own salaries… you need private sector jobs WHICH ain't happening as long as the people who create those jobs are feeling targeted and unsure what the future is bringing. The 'stimulus' wasn't. It just left a huge debt my children will be stuck with paying… and probably grandchildren. It is not possible to give everyone everything, that's basic and anyone with a minimal understanding of math and economics would be able to figure that one out. So why is Obama assuring people the government can fix everything and pushing these feel good giveaways? Not because they're going to fix anything, because they buy votes. People seem to believe the government is there to be their parents these days… a dangerous point of view. Another four years of Obama and the US will be in the same straits as Greece.
Dec 20, 2011
The hatred that the Republican Party feels for the Democratic Party and the Obama Administration has led them to do many evil things that the U.S.A. never deserved. They have truly out done ANY of this country's world enemies, and historically speaking, I now believe that that we are poised for a greater conflict than what we as a nation, experienced in the Great Civil War of 1861 – 65. God help us all.
Dec 20, 2011
O.K. Ed Menezes, I'm bracing myself for your great disapproval.
Dec 21, 2011
Give me an example?
Dec 21, 2011
Are you kidding/ He may be the worst president the nation has ever seen-definitely INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS for our Constitution and our Bill of Rights.
Dec 21, 2011
He's a commie, and an idiot, with no clue about private sector economics whatsoever.
Dec 21, 2011
The democrats, and their rampant, drunken sailor spending have done more long term damage to the furture of the nation than the Republicans, and by far. Obamacare will hurt the economy for years to come, if it not repealed.
Dec 21, 2011
A little perspective here: The Republicans don't want to pass the 2-month payroll tax amnesty because it doesn't work. Payroll companies and small businesses are all saying the same thing: There is no time to implement a payroll tax cut in 2 months. It's virtually impossible to modify the payroll software in time because in two months, everything changes again. That is why the Republicans are pushing for a 1-year extension to the payroll tax cut.
Of course, Obama and his Marxist "idiots" are going to say it's the Republicans' fault for trying to do the right thing. Obama can't run on his record, so he runs and hides in Hawaii. He doesn't know how to govern. All he knows how to do is run and campaign and throw bombs.
The Republicans DID NOT leave us in a huge hole. You have to blame the Democrat Congress for that. They've been in power since 2006. The current Republicans only control one house and one part of government. When Obama had both houses that were veto proof, he did absolutely nothing other than pass Obamacare which will destroy the economy with it's $5 Trillion per year costs.
Dec 21, 2011
I only wish those Republicans in the Senate had continued to make the President look bad on the SS tax cut bill. They should NEVER have agreed to a 2 month deal. Stupidity running amuck in DC.
Dec 21, 2011
lol………I guess as a liberal you don't actually read anything on the economy huh? Try over $4 trillion in less than 3 years. You clowns have no idea of the destruction that Obummer has caused. You call yourselves American? I'm sure these liberal posts are done by liberal trolls trying to back their loser for president. How pathetic.
Dec 21, 2011
Axelrod is a synchophant of Obama. What would one expect? Democrats are not for democracy, free moral agency, free market economics, or private enterprise. Most of them are crooks who believe in institutional solutions to simple problems. They are the party of "Card Check," "the Fairness Doctrine," "Man Caused Global Warming," "Censorship," "Political Correctness," and all manor of other freedom restricting controls. They definitely would like to destroy the Constitution of the United States of America and have walked all over it in this current administration.
Dec 21, 2011
James Andrews James I believe your the only sane one here God help us if Oboma is reelected. if he is we will soon be in hell.
Dec 21, 2011
what a joke! Want to stop the depression today? Ok the pipeline. Open up deep off shore drilling to American companies instead of foreign companies. Obama has to be the worst president we have ever had! He has truly enslaved our grandchildren!
Dec 21, 2011
hate to give everyone the bad news but Obama failed the 1st year he was in office, the unemployment numbers % haven't dropped, the people who can't get anymore unemployment are included in the numbers they are giving out now, gezzz wake up guys, he's an idiot and a communists and should be allowed to take us down anymore.. He needs to be impeached
Dec 21, 2011
agree
Dec 21, 2011
how about the hatred the Democrats and the President has shown, get with it guys, This entire administration are idiots , do what they want when they want. Obama should be impeached, why won;t Obama ok the pipeline and I dont want to hear because the republicans want to add to it, yes they do and they want a year extension on any tax increase, but Obama wants it to look like the republicans dont want the piepline when they do,,,,,,,, Obama needs to be impeached immediatley cause he couldn;t lead a horse to water
Dec 21, 2011
Obama doesn't need the Republicans to make him look bad. He is quite capable of doing that all by himself. What president has snubbed, rejected, alienated and criticized Israel more than any other since that nation's founding? Obama. What president has ensured that grieving families at VA cemeteries cannot pray in the name of Jesus Christ? Obama. What president has pushed to raise taxes during a recession? Obama. What president has flouted the Defense of Marriage Act and refused to defend it? Obama. What president has also refused to enforce immigration laws so blatantly, even to the extent of prosecuting border agents who are attempting to arrest drug smugglers and narcotics traffickers from across the border? Obama. What president is slapping Iran's wrist while it proceeds to develop nuclear weapons capable of destroying Israel and other nations in the MIddle East? You guessed it. Obama. What president has presided over the worst unemployment rates in modern history? Obama. What president has sued a state for trying to protect itself from illegal immigration? Obama. What president has signed legislation that would penalize U.S. citizens for NOT having health insurance? Obama. What president has given Planned Parenthood all the money it wants for killing babies during a time of record Federal deficits? Obama. I could go on and on. All of these "accomplishments" took place during his first two years in office when Democrats had the overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate. He used that biennium to walk all over the Constitution and ram his socialist agenda down the throats of Americans. Nothing the Republicans could do could possibly make him look worse than he already does.
Dec 21, 2011
Coak Sambataro Sue You need to check your facts a little more closely. How can you and any one else blame ONE person for the mess we are in. Your so- called republicans have done NOTHING to help the middle class or any other class EXCEPT the 1%. You have seen on national tv certain senators who have said they did not want to work with the President and after he is out of office THEN they will get off their narrow butts to do the job they were elected to do. Where was your outrage when your precious Bush started war and got us so much in debt that you expected it to be taken care of in four years? and told the American people lies. WAKE UP what is happening here is happening all over or did Obama create their mess too….seeing as he is blamed for everything else. Gee, if he had that much power then our problems would be solved….wouldn't they?
Dec 21, 2011
Coak Sambataro Sue – Because, you bonehead, the pipeline will be running over the largest aquifer in the US. The oil companies have not exactly been good stewards of our land or waters in the past. Why would we put our largest resource of fresh water in jeopardy to keep feeding our addiction to oil? Obama will win the presidency again and if we can win back the house, the country will be the better for it.
Dec 21, 2011
Gerry Simoni – Pathetic is the Reptillian party's middle name. Look at your "leaders"- Boehner? Romney? Newt? OMG how pitiful. And when will you give the trickle down theory up? Ask any economist- TRICKLE DOWN DOESN'T WORK !!! Have you learned nothing from the last 10 years- 8 of which were caused by the most failed policies and presidency from Bush? Get with it, Bud. You guys are over.
Dec 21, 2011
I hope and pray Obama is kicked out of OUR Whitehouse else America is lost. He is a dictator – nothing he does.
follows the Constitution. States have a right to make laws regarding illegals, and he is sueing the states?
He lies at every turn. How can a community organizer be president of this once free country? Does
not seem to work. He is a fraud. All records are sealed. Why, what is he hiding? I am going to call.
him Barry Soetoro from now on. He can take his money and be the dictator of Kenya. So many out.
of work, so many lost their homes, so many on food stamps – hope and change? I think not.
Dec 21, 2011
Totally correct!
Dec 21, 2011
Moving us in the right direction? You are an idiot!!!
Dec 21, 2011
James Andrews… Really?! Is Canada, England, France communists countries? …They have public health insurance… Etc., etc., etc.
Dec 21, 2011
Gerry Simoni ….Really?….We were living in US Disneyland, in heaven before Obama?
Dec 21, 2011
Yes, lets just soak up the talking points with NO PROOF AT ALL either way, shall we?
Dec 21, 2011
James Andrews , ARE YOU NUTS????? OBAMA IS DESTROYING AMERICA. GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR A** BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!! OH, ARE YOU A SOCIALIST OR A MUSLIM?
Dec 21, 2011
ARE YOU KIDDING? YOU DEMOCRATS NEED TO WAKE UP. I AM AN INDEPENDENT & I WOULD NEVER VOTE FOR A MUSLIN, LYING, SOCIALIST WHO IS INTENT ON DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY. OBAMA SHOULD BE IMPEACHED. HE ISN'T EVEN A CITIZEN & HAS NO RIGHT IN WASHINGTON. SEND HIM TO KENYA OR H*** WHICH EVER. OUR FOREFATHERS ARE TURNING OVER IN THEIR GRAVES. I AM PRAYING THAT GOD WILL INTERVENE SOON.
Dec 21, 2011
How can the republicans screw up the economy any more than the President with his failed policies. Boo Hoo that that the senate left town. People forget the House passed their bill, went to the senate and they made changes and then the senate immediately left town, thereby forcing the house to accept it. I respect the house for sticking up to what is good for this country. A two months extension is just a waste of time. And what about the 20 or 30 bills that the house sent to the senate that were never voted on. You don't hear these things by the liberal media.
Dec 21, 2011
Monica Cmmc ….lol…..lol……and you 2 think spending money we don't have is the key huh? I guess your checkbook must look as balanced as Obummer's…….lol Get a clue!
Dec 21, 2011
Republicans had over 13 job creating bills the first summer and the democrats in the senate shelved every one so that couldn't be voted on. They were stopped by Obama,s minions. Obama wasn't the first to use the role of a Czar but he was the one who installed 14 Czars to bypass congress and the Senate. Obama knowing he did not qualify for the presidency ran anyway. This was determined in Supreme Court ruling in 1875 which had nothing to do with his false birth records but with his fathers. AND HE KNEW IT. You see his minions deleted all the references to it off the web and it took a lawyer hunting the old fashioned way to find it. The man is Illegally sitting in our Whitehouse and pushing his socialistic polices against the peoples will.
Dec 21, 2011
leslye, he had the house and senate for 2 years. how did that work out? wake up and quit blaming the wrong party.
Dec 22, 2011
Monica Cmmc I was I was building my ranch WORKING another job hum I guess you could say I had 2 full time jobs….then Obama! not working any more.
Dec 22, 2011
Thomas your insane!!! Obama isn't even legally in office! I have no hatred for the man 1875 ruling of the Supreme Court is what makes him illegally in office! You may be confusing the Agape of our Constitution or our disdain for Socialism as a hatred for democrats but no further thought could be true. But then again JFK would make a damn good Republican these days.
Dec 22, 2011
Coak Sambataro Sue Our president did not fail he has done an enormous amount to correct all the damage Bush left him with. You must be watching too much Fox so-called news and being brainwashed by their lies. I feel sorry for you. Get some facts before you trash our president.
Dec 22, 2011
Why don't you get your facts before spewing off with this nonsense. The US exports oil we have an excess. President Obama is one of the best presidents we have ever had and he is black. Accept it.
Dec 22, 2011
Richard Raff OMG the only thing that will save our country is another term with President Obama and rest assured it will happen. Accept it.
Dec 22, 2011
David Smart It is no wonder you are only an adjunct with that attitude.
Dec 22, 2011
James Andrews Bush staged an illegal war which he didnt bother to pay for and gave millionairs huge tax cut which he didnt pay for he is the one who spent like a drunken sailor get you facts straight or don't waste anyones time with idiotic comments. Bush caused our huge deficit. Healthcare is a basic human right. Universal Healthcare is what we need like all other industrialized countries. America should be ashamed.
Dec 22, 2011
Coak Sambataro Sue Look out your ignorance and hatred is showing.
Dec 22, 2011
Nancy … I hate to tell you but you've been brainwashed!!! we went from 9 trill to over 14 trill in debt in 3 years!! According to the laws of the land and the Supreme Court ruling of 1875 "United States Supreme Court, in Minor V. Happersett" it is unlawful for Obama to be elected to the office of President therefore should be removed. Lets not even talk about his fake birth certificates thats right 3 different long form none of which were authentic! And whats really funny is he claimed the 4th greatest of all times when he is really the Worst of all time!!!
Dec 22, 2011
So what is his reason for the first two years of obama's presidency?
Dec 22, 2011
Nancy Knudson Hermann Cain is black and disagrees with you. In fact the democrats have impugned his character, destroyed his aspirations, and built a stereotype that is despicable. The real Herman Cain stands and is black. He is an honorable man. But democrats aren't honorable. They engage in character assassination and public disgrace yet honor their own crooks with praise. i.e. Charlie Rangel, et. all. It is not a racial issue. It is what Barak Obama has done to this country through his shadow government of the czars and other sycophants.
Dec 22, 2011
Jo Ellen Tracy – And you are an uninformed right-wingnut. Reptillians need to wake up and see that the country is turning and realizing that people (and I use the term loosely) like you and other right wing loonies days are numbered in their influence on our political system. The middle class of America is waking up and realizing that voting Reptillian is voting against their own economic interests. Are you a rich person? I mean really rich? Because the rich are the only ones who should be voting for Reps. because Reps only vote for policies that help the rich. Perhaps this is a concept too much for your clearly limited intellectual capacity.
Dec 22, 2011
James Andrews – Nice hat. Sort of hard to take what you say seriously- not that anything you say is sane.
Dec 22, 2011
Obama is illegally in office he should be put in prison
Dec 22, 2011
your right about that we put those people to stop that NWO socialist from bankrupting our country him and his democrat congress spent 4 tril and 3 years! they had to go!!!. Not only did he sale us out He's not even legally in office! According to the laws of the land and the Supreme Court ruling "United States Supreme Court, in Minor V. Happersett" it is unlawful for Obama to be elected to the office of President therefore should be removed in handcuffs. Thats not even counting his birth certificate. As far as congress? Congress all ready passed a tax bill and its sitting in the senate and its not just a two month patch..baby its the real deal. If Obama cared about us working he would have allowed the pipeline that even the unions were for, thats 200,000 jobs to start with!!! If he allowed American Companies to drill off the plate instead of foreign companies there's another bunch of jobs and Independence from hostile countries that we would have gained! Want to here something funny? this is the second time I posted this since midnight
you want to hear something else funny? Bills right I'm not a christian I'm a pagan and Bills right whether your christian Muslim Jewish pagan whatever your faith is you should be able to have it on your grave.
Dec 22, 2011
your nuts, brainwashed, insane. Bush may well have started the war but Obama kept in going and spent 4 trill in 3 years 1/3 of the entire debt!!!! Obama's healthcare? puts any who is poor and can not afford insurance in jail, if you can't pay your fine you go to jail. You really should read that bill of trash. Obama stole $5 Billion from Medacare which I am actually about to get myself next nov. if he hasn't spent it all.If you want to see Universal health care in action I suggest you visit 3 places. You local V.A. Hospital, Canada England. and when you see what getting service in these 3 places I dare you to say thats what you want. I've been waiting for treatment from the VA for 5 years now, I think that they are waiting for me to die so that they don't have to treat me. let me reiterate this Obame 1/3 the national debt in 3 years two of which he had a democratic congress which gave him anything and everything he wanted.
Dec 22, 2011
Monica Cmmc funny read my post everyone I know in the UK hates their healthcare system same in Canada
Dec 22, 2011
If the Republicans wanted to sabotage the economy, all they would need to do is to do nothing and let Obama's dithering on the pipeline continue. He has a chance to increase available jobs by 20,000 without costing the Federal government a thing. Do nothing and the economy will continue to limp along. Perhaps he'll find another Solyndra so that he can throw the people's money down another rat hole.
Dec 22, 2011
I really believe the country is waking up out of their coma and coming to realize that the only concern of Republcians is to make it look like our president is a failure, which he isnt. Our country is just now starting to turn around after what Bush did to us, and heaven forbid another Republican get elected. I shutter to think of it. I thank the OW movement for helping things progress.