Mitch McConnell takes credit for economy...lol

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In the run-up to last year’s midterm elections, President Obama did what he could to convince everyone that the economy, after years of post-recession fits and starts, was finally putting together a decent recovery. “For all the work that remains, for all the citizens that we still need to reach, what I want people to know is that there are some really good things happening in America,” Obama said in a speech last October. “Across the board, the trend lines have moved in the right direction.” Republicans, of course, were having none of it. They’d been hammering away for years at the “disastrous Obama economy,” and with control of the Senate tantalizingly within their grasp, they weren’t about to cede any ground to the president on their most potent campaign message. “The president can talk about an improving economy, but try telling that to those Americans who are suffering so much in the Obama economy,” Mitch McConnell said in response to the president’s remarks. “Congress needs to pass legislation that helps create jobs instead of smothering economic opportunity.” The election came and went and McConnell’s side did much better than Obama’s, but it turns out that the president was on to something. In the months following the midterms, there’s been a glut of data showing that the economy did indeed pick up steam in the latter half of last year – strong monthly jobs reports, a falling jobless rate, and a five percent annualized growth rate for the third quarter of 2014. How does one explain all this good economic news? Well, there are many complex factors at play, but Mitch McConnell boiled it down to one simple reason: people were getting HYPED over the prospect of McConnell and his buddies taking over all of Congress and passing a bunch of bad economic legislation that the president would veto.

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