{"id":5164,"date":"2012-09-04T10:40:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T16:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2012-09-04T10:40:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T16:40:03","slug":"the-question-isnt-are-you-better-off-its-would-you-be-better-off-with-more-of-the-same-republican-policies-a-resounding-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/the-question-isnt-are-you-better-off-its-would-you-be-better-off-with-more-of-the-same-republican-policies-a-resounding-no\/","title":{"rendered":"The question isn&rsquo;t &ldquo;are you better off?&rdquo; It&rsquo;s &ldquo;would you be better off with more of the same Republican policies?&rdquo; &#8212; a resounding NO!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no good reason to give the Republicans another chance &#8212; they had 30 years. mjh<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>INGRAHAM: You\u2019ve also noted that there are signs of improvement on the horizon in the economy. How do you answer the president\u2019s argument that the economy is getting better in a general election campaign if you yourself are saying it\u2019s getting better?<\/p>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">ROMNEY: <strong>Well, of course it\u2019s getting better<\/strong>.<\/font> The economy always gets better after a recession, there is always a recovery. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>INGRAHAM: <strong>Isn\u2019t it a hard argument to make if you\u2019re saying, like, OK, he inherited this recession, he took a bunch of steps to try to turn the economy around, and now, we\u2019re seeing more jobs, but vote against him anyway?<\/strong> Isn\u2019t that a hard argument to make? Is that a stark enough contrast?<\/p>\n<p>ROMNEY: <strong>Have you got a better one, Laura? It just happens to be the truth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/09\/04\/790251\/romney-of-course-its-getting-better\/?mobile=nc\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/09\/04\/790251\/romney-of-course-its-getting-better\/?mobile=nc\">http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/09\/04\/790251\/romney-of-course-its-getting-better\/?mobile=nc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no good reason to give the Republicans another chance &#8212; they had 30 years. mjh INGRAHAM: You\u2019ve also noted that there are signs of improvement on the horizon in the economy. How do you answer the president\u2019s argument that the economy is getting better in a general election campaign if you yourself are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/the-question-isnt-are-you-better-off-its-would-you-be-better-off-with-more-of-the-same-republican-policies-a-resounding-no\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The question isn&rsquo;t &ldquo;are you better off?&rdquo; It&rsquo;s &ldquo;would you be better off with more of the same Republican policies?&rdquo; &#8212; a resounding NO!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5165,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions\/5165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}