If you are going to accuse the Democrats of causing the problem, you ought to be able to back it up with specifics.
One word..TAXES
Hardly a piece of legislation comes up that doesn't include a tax increase in one form or another. Just last April the largest tax increase in American history in the face of a weakening economy. Taxes go down in STIMULATE an economy, taxes go up it BURDENS an economy. New stuff???
The PROMISE, not implication, the PROMISE of increased taxes FURTHER burdens an economy.
Can you hear them chanting RE-SE-SSION RE-SE-SION RE SE-SION at every opportunity in front on a mic.
The selling point on all these new taxes is that they are for the 'for the highest wage earners' blah blah blah.
Those are the drivers of the economy. People with money to invest. Just the promise to repeal the Bush tax cuts or let them expire all but stopped investment. Class envy is stirred up continuously and those that have done well become 'lynched' via taxes. The old saying about Democracies failing when the people learn that they can take money out of another persons pocket and put it in their own via the ballot has become a Democrat Party platform. They sell tax and spend as 'pay-go'. Well if you don't START a new expensive entitlement program you don't NEED a new tax now do ya?
The Republicans stood guard against new taxes. They were villianized as 'taking care of their rich buddys' for it by Pelosi/Reid types. More of the old saying above at work. Lynch them wealth villains!!!
The Democrats PUNISH success and villainize the wealthy. THAT HURTS THE ECONOMY!!!
The market doesn't have long reaction times BTW. Announce tomorrow a new capital gains tax and the next day the Dow will drop significantly.....as it has.
Announce tomorrow that the President has dropped the rescinded an executive order restricting off shore drilling and the price of oil goes down......as it has.
They are lock-step in their determination to not allow drilling in the areas KNOWN to be rich in oil. They have stated in no uncertain terms to socialize the oil industry. Is it that they won't drill until it's the government's to use for more programs to garner more votes via the old saying above? What makes the oil rich areas sacrosanct when the areas that AREN'T oil rich are free to be drilled?
Yes, over the last year and a half the politics of the Democrat leadership in Congress have directly caused US economic pain. They CAN alleviate it but WON'T. Without the pain the wealth are hard to villianize. If your doing OK then you don't mind if someone else is, but if your feeling the pain.........
Cut taxes for all Americans, announce a cut in Corporate taxes for one year to 15% for money brought back into the US from foreign accounts, announce the release of any Federal lands for exploration that can be done without environmental harm, cease all efforts to convince people that we are in a recession that we re not (yet) in.
If they did that today the stock market would jump immediately, the banks would be crammed with money, and OPEC would sh** it's self and drop the price of oil fast and heavily.
Democrats won't because those are Republican ideas and it would appear they are caving. And they won't because they NEED to make someone appear to be worse then them for them to look good.