The GOP Economic Recovery Plan

Here, basically, it is:

  1. Take control of the House and Senate – and, possibly, the White House – this fall.
  2. WIth Obamacare in jeopardy, and a decent chance of a new, Tea-Party-allied GOP majority in the house to gridlock Obama or (hopefully) bolster and enforce Romney’s courage as a conservative, business gets off the fence.  Private capital, currently sitting in banks all over the world, starts flowing again.  Businesses can get capital – and they’re willing to hire people rather than bank money against the regulations and expenses of Obamacare.
  3. The economy quickly resumes boom mode…
  4. …unless, of course, the GOP majority goes native, DC-style, again, the way they did from 1998 to 2006, and starts spending like worthless Democrats like our idiotic Frist majority did.  Hopefully the conservative grassroots will keep their fighting edge…well, forever.  I goess that’s partly my job.
OK, I’m being a little facetious – it’s not literally “the plan”, as in “written down somewhere”.  But that’s pretty much how it’s going to go down.

7 thoughts on “The GOP Economic Recovery Plan

  1. “WIth Obamacare in jeopardy, and a decent chance of a new, Tea-Party-allied GOP majority in the house to gridlock Obama or (hopefully) bolster and enforce Romney’s courage as a conservative, business gets off the fence.”

    For this to work, Romney would first have to become conservative in some meaningful way. Proof of this miraculous conversion through how he actually governed Massachusetts has been very difficult to find.

  2. Potomac Fever infect Republicans and Democrats indiscriminately. The Tea Party seems to have found an inoculation.

  3. Flagg,

    Not that I’m a Mitt supporter – not yet – but let’s take a whack at this:

    For this to work, Romney would first have to become conservative in some meaningful way.

    He already has. He’s the most conservative governor Massachusetts has had in generations, and likely the most conservative they could have had under any circumstances.

    “That doesn’t mean much”, you might respond – indeed, you did…:

    Proof of this miraculous conversion through how he actually governed Massachusetts has been very difficult to find.

    Did he govern like John Hoeven or Haley Barbour? Of course not – he was in a liberal state fighting an even more liberal legislature. He was the most conservative candidate who could win in that state.

    He’ll likely have a conservative GOP Senate and House next year, if he wins. That’ll pre-empt any liberal tendencies he has at worst, and support his conservative ones at best.

    Making sure that happens – well, that’s our job.

  4. MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee police say an armed robbery attempt at a north side grocery store ended when a customer opened fire.

    Authorities say a man armed with a shotgun entered an Aldi store about 7 p.m. Monday and tried to rob the store. Police say a customer pulled out a gun and fired at the suspect, who fled without any cash or merchandise.

    None of the employees or customers were injured.

    Police say they’re investigating whether a 20-year-old man who arrived at a local hospital with a gunshot wound is connected to the robbery attempt.

  5. Chuck, you have just provided another excellent example that an armed populace can’t be conquered.

  6. The economy is in a hard place no matter who gets elected in November. Deleveraging is not pretty.
    Francis Fukuyama has some interesting things to say about how we got here:
    http://thebrowser.com/interviews/francis-fukuyama-on-financial-crisis?page=full
    The problem was and remains that the people who work at the financial houses are far smarter and more motivated than the legislators and bureaucrats who attempt to regulate them. I wonder if this isn’t a major component of the problem of industry regulation? I believe it has been shown that elected representatives, overall, have a much higher estimate of their intelligence than is born out by independent measure. Can it be that when Frank or Dodd sit across the table from a Wall Street lobbyist they actually think that they are capable of out thinking them? That they fall for the “Only please, Brer Fox, please don’t throw me into the briar patch” shtick?

  7. Now, this is interesting:
    http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/01/31/white_house_panic_gruesome_2012_economic_forecast_could_doom_obama
    Most of the Doom & Gloom comes from slow GDP growth, not from income inequality or an insufficient number of Central Americans on hand to do the jobs that Americans just won’t do.
    The easiest way to increase GDP is to deregulate American industry and drill, baby drill. Any of the Republican candidates is more likely to favor this approach than Obama. Obama is too ideologically driven to even consider it.

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