Piling on
Democrats as well as Republicans are openly critical of the President these days:
“The President needs to lay off Las Vegas and stop making it the poster child for where people shouldn’t be spending their money,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat. “Las Vegas is suffering through one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, and we cannot afford for the President to bring us down any further,” added Republican Senator John Ensign. “Nevada has one of the most distressed economies in the country, and the President has done little to focus on job creation over the past year. Discouraging people from coming to our state to make a political point adds insult to injury,” said Republican Congressman Dean Heller.
The mayor of Las Vegas, a former Democrat not affiliated with a political party, was even nastier: ““He didn’t learn his lesson the first time, but when he hurt our economy by his ill conceived rhetoric, we didn’t think it would happen again, but now that it has I want to assure you, when he comes I’ll do everything I can to give him the boot back to Washington…”
Meanwhile, the President said: “If anybody’s searching for a lesson from Massachusetts, I promise you, the answer is not to do nothing.” Clearly we are not objective in this matter, but we get the feeling that the subtext of the Democratic critics’ comments on Las Vegas is: “wake up before it’s too late.”