A.G. Gancarski
Friday afternoon saw Barack Obama in Jacksonville extolling the Saft America Batteries plant as an example of a success created by the 2009 Stimulus Act.
“Jacksonville is better off … and none of this is an accident,” Obama said.
It’s a product of his policies, the president said, which are “paying off in big, tangible ways.”
“If we don’t talk about how things are getting better,” Obama said, policies may change “and they may get worse.”
Without “recognizing the progress we’ve made we may get sold some snake oil,” Obama said, slipping into his drawl.
Republicans are taking notice of and exception to Obama’s statements: Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera found it “ironic that President Obama was in Jacksonville yesterday taking credit for the record number of Florida jobs that have been created.”
“It’s true that Florida has jobs over one million new jobs in the last five years thanks to strong Republican leadership on the executive and legislative side,” Lopez-Cantera wrote in a prepared statement. “These jobs are the result of the conservative principles of cutting taxes 50 times and getting government regulation out of the way, a strong contrast with the way Washington does business. These jobs didn’t come from Washington, D.C. They were created in spite of President Obama’s bad policies.”
“I just wonder how many more would have been created if we had a partner in Washington who had a similar approach to limited government.”
Expect CLC to amplify his claims about Obama’s statement Monday in Jacksonville, where he will hold a “Grassroots Meet and Greet.”
