Steve Clemmons of the Washington Note has a post about Bush’s appeal for money for the RNC. The appeal starts out:
Republicans have a record of dealing with some serious economic times during my presidency. We have had a recession, a stock market collapse, terrorist attacks, corporate scandals and major natural disasters.Because Republicans acted and had an economic recovery plan, we have created strong economic growth and nearly 5.3 million new jobs in the last two and half years; the national unemployment rate has dropped to 4.6% — that is lower than the average rate of the 1960s, 1970s, the 1980s and the 1990s; productivity is up and household net worth is at an all-time high.
Here’s the unemployment graph:
Just fill in who was president during what years. I guess he just didn’t feel like saying:
As you can see, unemployment is finally no longer rising like it did after I took office. As a matter of fact, it started finally falling when I started the Iraqi War [as it always does in wartime], but I’d rather spin this as being the direct result of my cutting taxes and running up the national debt. Who knows? Maybe it’ll fall to near where it was when I started by the time my term expires.
Who writes this stuff for him?
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