The Morning Plum

How GOP benefits politically from blocking fixes to the economy: As I’ve ranted about here far too often, perhaps the single most important political dynamic of the moment is that Republicans may well continue benefitting politically from blocking Obama’s job creation policies — even ones that have broad public support. That’s because the highest price for the bad economy is likely to be paid by the guy who runs the place, even if the public is aware of GOP obstruction of his efforts to fix things.

Here’s another clear sign of this.

 As Brian Beutler notes in an important post this morning, Republicans are trumpeting the news that Congressional Budget Office chief Doug Elmendorf has testified that unemployment will continue soaring next year. But here’s the rub: Elmendorf himself also implicitly said that Dem plans would create more jobs than Republican ones, and that expected high unemployment rates can be blamed on continued Republican opposition to Obama’s jobs policies.

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