Slog - Comments on Death to the GOP Meme http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/death_to_the_gop_meme The Olympian picks up the good word from those paragons of the liberal media, Forbes magazine. Forbes gave Washington state a gold star earlier this month for our dramatically improved business climate. This morning's Olympian editorial spells out the bad news for the GOP. The Republicans and Dino Rossi campaigned in 2004 on the notion that the Democrats were bad for the economy. The GOP has continued to hit that theme in the run up to 2008. Whoops. The Olympian writes: More subjective was a Forbes Magazine ranking that said Washington has one of the best business climates in the... Copyright 2008 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:30:52 -0800 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:23:14 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Original Andrew I'd like the title of this post better with the "Meme" part left off.

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/death_to_the_gop_meme#c767407 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/death_to_the_gop_meme#c767407 Politics Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:00:37 -0800 Comment by Gitai I have no fucking clue why anyone would think that GOP presidents are better for the economy. With the exception of Jimmy Carter, the economy has always improved under Democratic administrations, particularly the kitchen table economy.

You'd think that after a century of recessions and depressions that leave the rich unaffected, people would figure out that the GOP is bad for everyone and everything but rich people, particularly the idle rich.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/death_to_the_gop_meme#c767454 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/death_to_the_gop_meme#c767454 Politics Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:23:14 -0800