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Neo-Hoover Revisionism

by David Kurtz
12.03.09 | 10:51 am

Former Bush Labor Secretary Elaine Chao (who happens to be Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s wife) tells Fox News that the current high unemployment is all Obama’s fault, especially if you skip over the last year of the Bush Presidency and compare it to the jobless numbers in 2007.

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