Robert Borosage
Everyone agrees that there is only one question
on voters' minds: who has a plausible plan to put this economy on the right
track? Yet in the most expensive election in recorded history, candidates up
and down the ticket aren't offering much of an answer. The presidential
campaigns are running through their first billion on attack ads. And both
congressional delegations are fixated on how best to inflict austerity on an
economy that is barely moving. (We've seen how well that works in Europe
where austerity has produced both increasing misery and increasing debt
burdens.)
Democrats are tongue-tied because polls
show Americans increasingly worried about deficits and skeptical about spending
or anything labeled "stimulus." This is nuts, but it's an election
year, and when polls speak, politicians listen. Democrats seem dangerously
close to repeating the mistake of 2010 and going into the election without a
jobs plan.
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