NRSC Loses Count: There’s ‘Only One Party Who Bailed Out The Automakers’

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tx)
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An NRSC memo released today points to the voters’ “utter dissatisfaction with the status quo” as the reason behind the results of the Massachusetts senate race, and that they “realize that there is only one party who bailed out the automakers and insurance companies.” By one, of course, the NRSC actually means two, with both former President Bush and President Obama presiding over bailouts.

The memo, released today by NRSC Chair John Cornyn, says that “the political naysayers who discounted Brown’s candidacy and anointed Democrat Martha Coakley after she won her party’s nomination miscalculated one important factor: Voters’ utter dissatisfaction with the status quo.”

It also cites specific reasons for this dissatisfaction:

For the last year, the Obama Administration has offered one answer for the problems of the day: To blame the previous administration. But voters realize that there is only one party who bailed out the automakers and insurance companies, forced a failed stimulus debacle through Congress, advocated for an energy tax, and attempted to take over America’s health care system.

Unfortunately, the “one party who bailed out the automakers and insurance companies” is actually two parties, as President Bush also presided over an auto bailout, worth at least $17.4 billion, and an $85 billion bailout of AIG.

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