Friday’s jobs report was good news: 379,000 new jobs were added in February and the unemployment rate ticked down to 6.2 percent. As the country begins to emerge from the COVID-19 doldrums, numbers like these offer hope that 2021 will see the country return to health and prosperity. So it was frustrating to see the lukewarm reaction of so many Republicans to the extraordinary economic progress created by their tax and other policies, beginning with the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. …
It is high time that conservatives start arguing for what their policies are supposed to do and have already done, instead of taking the easy and predictable path to yet again attack Democrats. That thinking has allowed Democrats to take credit for the success of Republican economic policies over and over again. CONTINUED
David Winston (Winston Group), Roll Call