Bush may not be welcome on the campaign trail, but his failed economic polices remain cornerstone ideas in the party's platform.
"Republicans Have a Data Problem" is about the most charitable way possible to describe what should by all rights be the biggest problem faced by modern conservatism: For decades, both their implemented economic policies and their economic predictions have repeatedly and continually failed.
Among many other Republicans, the current presidential candidates Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, John R. Kasich and Jeb Bush all denounced the “job-killing” consequences of Mr. Obama’s policies.
Yet the economy gained 2.9 million jobs in 2014, more than in any year since 1999, during Mr. Clinton’s term. Net job creation during the 15 years that Mr. Clinton and Mr. Obama occupied the White House has topped 30 million. That is 50 percent more than were created in the 20 years of Mr. Reagan and both Mr. Bushes. [...]
Today, the United States has the strongest major economy in the world.
These things have been consistent. Republicans have time and time again asserted that each round of "tax cuts" would result in growth; that growth did not appear. Republicans have over and over vowed that this or that non-conservative economic policy would have specific, devastating effects; it doesn't happen. This is a phenomenon that many and technical experts refer to as being full of shit, and something that can be quite damaging to your career if your career consists of any endeavor other than:
1. Appearing on Fox News.
2. Getting yourself elected to something.
And yet if anything, the conservative phenomenon of predicting social or economic disaster if their ideological opponents do a given something has gotten even more bluster-filled, and even less noted by the press, over the last ten years. It takes a great, heaping quantity of being full of shit to propose, as has actually happened, that the Bush economic meltdown was not caused by deregulation policies that encouraged financial institutions to engage in both destabilizing gambling efforts and destabilizing crookedness but instead was the preemptive shudder of financial markets worried that Barack Obama might later become president. It takes similar quantities of brain manure to go from predicting a small, cheap war in Iraq with few casualties and glowing regional results to asserting, ten long years later, that it all would have worked out fine if opponents of those policies had not unduly pressed for the provably not small, provably not cheap, provably casualty riddled effort to, a decade later, be scaled back. The conservative id continues to assert that Republicans "kept us safe" even while peppering their arguments with images of Americans under the last conservative president demonstrably being not safe; Dick Cheney will continue to assert his wisdom as foreign policy expert and predictor of doom at every non-conservative turn twenty years after he is dead. There's no end to it.
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