Jon Kyl joins the club of Republicans making idiotic statements

[ProSense]

Kyl Says Bush Is Blame-Free In Financial Mess: ‘The President Doesn’t Run The Economy’

KYL: George Bush doesn’t run the economy. He didn’t create this problem. His tax rates being lower actually helped for six years create the second largest economic growth that we’ve had in the history of the country in recent years. … The President doesn’t run the economy.

Ignore the contradiction wedged between the points in bold. Duh!

On edit, Kyl appears to believe Bush only runs the economy when the Repubs are spinning his impact as good.

[speedoo]

1. Anyone know when he's up for re-election?

Too bad it's not this year.

[ProSense]

2. It's time

to get rid of both AZ Repubs.

[TheWraith]

4. Not again until 2012. nt

[speedoo]

6. Bummer. He's an idiot. nt

[DJ13]

3. He joined that club years ago

[ProSense]

5. I should have qualified,

in the last few days of this campaign. LOL!

[Riddler]

7. Let's all remember that statement when, if things don't turn around quickly enough under Obama,

the Repukes start blaming him for the mess he inherited.

[Zynx]

8. Never mind that the economic growth rates were very low for that period.

[spanone]

9. kyl's been in that club for a long, long time

[Tutonic]

10. Kyl and Mccain have bad blood between them. But so do McCain

and Grassley--and they're campaigning together in Waterloo. Grassley is senile.

[ProSense]

11. This is a good sign

Arizona may have some built-in advantages for Democrats this year. While the state may have a reputation for conservatism, the influx of new residents that has made it among the fastest-growing states has brought in droves of Democrats and independents. Republicans still account for 37 percent of registered voters, but the numbers of Democrats (34 percent) and independents (28 percent) are growing faster.

Gov. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat in her second term, endorsed Mr. McCain’s Democratic opponent, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, in the primaries and is campaigning for him now. Ms. Napolitano is more popular than Mr. McCain in most polls.

“The Democrats are well-funded, organized and hungry,” Nathan Sproul, a Republican strategist here, wrote this month in a memorandum to party members. “It is every man and woman for himself or herself. Good luck. You’re going to need it.”

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Maybe this could be Kyl's last term.

[karynnj]

12. That's hilarious - the sentences do not fit coherently together

They ignore that the President did pick the Treasury Secretary, the head of the SEC and he picked the head of the Fed. The latter makes him pretty responsible for the monitary policy. As to the fiscal policy, there is NO one with more control over the budget - so he had more effect on fiscal policy too. That would seem to mean he kind of did run the economy - which he would claim, if it were doing well.

[bulloney]

13. Also keep in mind that the current economic mess is from shoddy investing.

We were not creating real wealth during the early Bush years. It was a house of cards that has collapsed. So, Kyl's argument that the Bush tax cuts created "economic growth" was bogus.