{"id":6484,"date":"2010-08-09T14:33:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T18:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6484"},"modified":"2010-08-09T14:33:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T18:33:55","slug":"robert-rubin%e2%80%99s-formula-for-success-equals-electoral-doom-for-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6484\/robert-rubin%e2%80%99s-formula-for-success-equals-electoral-doom-for-liberals\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Rubin\u2019s Formula for Success Equals Electoral Doom for Liberals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a television appearance over the weekend former Clinton Treasury Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704268004575417503318495276.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5 \" target=\"_blank\">Robert Rubin stumbled onto a hard truth<\/a> for liberals when it comes to proving they can be trusted to reduce the deficit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf you could do it and it was credible and people believed it and it was real, I think that could do a lot for confidence.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let\u2019s reword that a bit: If a deficit reduction plan was credible \u2013 meaning people believe it can work based on its assumptions and terms \u2013 and real \u2013 meaning the people proposing it are committed to implementing it \u2013 then the public would have confidence that the government could reduce the deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Put another way: Credibility + Reality = Confidence<\/p>\n<p>Applying that formula to ObamaCare and the Recovery Act shows just how much liberals fail to make the grade.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Credibility:<\/strong> For months President Obama and Congressional Democrats <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/atr--the-individual-mandate-excise-tax-is-a-tax-85089707.html \" target=\"_blank\">swore that the individual mandate was not a tax, before claiming it was an excise tax<\/a> so it can survive charges of being unconstitutional.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reality:<\/strong> A key argument for <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704657504575411973910324964.html?mod=googlenews_wsj \" target=\"_blank\">passing the Recovery Act was to keep unemployment below 8%<\/a>.\u00a0 Nearly $800 billion later, the number is 9.5%.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Confidence:<\/strong> The latest RealClearPolitics average shows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/direction_of_country-902.html\" target=\"_blank\">60% of Americans agreeing that the country is on the wrong track<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So far, the liberals running Washington, D.C. have shown themselves anything but credible and based in reality.\u00a0 No wonder nearly two-thirds of Americans have no confidence in them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a television appearance over the weekend former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin stumbled onto a hard truth for liberals when it comes to proving they can be trusted to reduce the deficit. \u201cIf you could do it and it was credible and people believed it and it was real, I think that could do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,27,35,82,1674,1675,478,18],"class_list":["post-6484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economy","tag-jobs","tag-obamacare","tag-recession","tag-recovery-act","tag-robert-rubin","tag-stimulus-bill","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6489,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484\/revisions\/6489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}