Dan Gainor uses a July 5 MRC Business & Media Institute column to complain about liberals accusing Republicans of intentionally sabotaging the economy to ensure it remains bad so President Obama will lose in November and for them calling that alleged behavior “treason.”
First, Gainor never really disproves this theory, turning it around into more Obama-bashing:
The idea in all this is almost laughable. Democrats are so sure that they are right and righteous can find no other explanation for the continued economic downturn. Unemployment spent three and a half years at 5 percent or below under President George W. Bush. It has spent nearly an identical time under Obama above 8 percent. At the same time even the most supportive news outlets have been forced to cover the national cataclysm in household wealth where the median household lost 39 percent since 2007.
There is no way to spin those statistics except failure. So if Obama the All Knowing has failed, well it must be the fault of the GOP.
Second, Gainor takes peculiar umbrage with the word “treason” being bandied about:
Political watchers would say conservatives, like Texas Gov. Rick Perry, have also used the term. That’s true. The difference is media types skewered him for it. Now it’s becoming commonplace for prominent Democrats and their supporters to claim any opposition to the president is “treason.” No, it’s called freedom. The people who declare all political opposition to be treason usually run third world dictatorships.
You know who else called a decision that disagreed with his political philosophy treason? Gainor’s boss, Brent Bozell.
As we noted, Bozell declared that Chief Justice John Roberts was a “traitor to his philosophy” for not ruling the way he wanted on the constitutionality of health care reform, later insisting that Roberts is “He is a traitor to strict constitutionalism, whether he folded to Obama or to his image-manufacturing bullies in the media.”
Gainor won’t take umbrage at that, of course. He knows which side his bread is buttered on, and who butters it.