In the wake of May's dismal jobs report, Democratic strategist Bob Shrum accused Republicans of "rooting for a recession" on MSNBC's Jansing & Co. Tuesday—triggering an outraged response from his GOP counterpart.
Echoing comments made by Rep. George Miller, a California Democrat, on PoliticsNation Monday, Shrum said Republicans are deliberately preventing new jobs from being created in order to hurt the president politically. “Romney and the Republicans rooted for a downturn,” Shrum charged.
“The president has moved the economy—he hasn’t moved it as far or as fast as he wants in part because as Mitch McConnell said the whole Republican strategy was to prevent him from being re-elected," Shrum continued. "And if that means an extra two million or three million of five million Americans are going to be unemployed—Republicans are willing to pay the price.”
That didn't sit well with Republican strategist David Winston.
“Now, that’s absolutely an absurd statement," Winston countered, arguing that Democrats have ignored 30 jobs bills proposed by Senate Republicans. President Obama, said Winston, has done “nothing to turn this economy around.”
Republicans, Winston added, are “not for unemployment.”
Shrum wouldn’t back down though, reiterating his view that Republicans are “rooting for a recession.”
Watch the heated exchange:
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Excellent move, @LeanForward for noticing that interesting detail this morning. Imagine how all of this will look as November gets closer! Maybe it soon will be necessary for the guests to be in different cities, when they come on the air. Chris was the smart one (as one would expect) she recognized what was going on and sat back as she watched the fireworks. Not sure that this is what she had in mind as far as "balance" is concerned.
Republicans do not care about the unemployed. They think that when they have Romney in office as the President that these big investors into his campaign are going to start investing in America. Bring jobs and more jobs for military and building bridges and highways....Mass transit and pipelines..At minimum wage or lower for cost effectiveness and guaranteeing huge returns to investors..
When you control the bread on a man's table you can control the man.