The Secret Of His Success
by digby
So I'm watching MSNBC and White House stenographer Richard Wolffe tells us how the White House feels about the recent finding that more people feel the economy is improving:
I can tell you that the general feeling is that the upswing according to a bunch of recent polls that put the president's approval ratings above 50% for the first time in several months, that's a psychological mark more than anything else. They're not breaking out the champagne of course, unemployment's still way too high.
But it does signal that, in particular, the kind of deals he was doing at the end of the last congress, especially on taxes, with Republicans,has fed into a broader, better feeling about the economy.
Wolffe may be a lot of things, but no one can say that he isn't very well informed about the administration's thinking.
He went on to say that the White House will be strongly focused on better relationships with business over the next two years to ease the community's fears about regulations. Not a lot of talk about jobs or home foreclosures or the rest of the economic hardships still being felt by millions of ordinary Americans (or as Wolffe put it, their misconception that the country is still in recession.) I guess they're going to let the invisible hand take care of that.
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