Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.): Fundamentals of economy ‘quite good’

Talk an economy into a recession?  Does that sound like Obama in 2008 when he kept on repeating that this was the worse economy ever or since the Great Depression? Here is a figure from my book Debacle.

I seem to also remember Democrats unloading on any Republican who would claim that the fundamentally sound.  Now we have Democrats saying things such as this:

"I think there are four things we ought to do — one is not talk ourselves into recession," he said on CNN. "Hair is not on fire, let's keep that in mind. The underlying fundamentals for the economy are actually quite good and we need to keep that in mind." . . .
"I call it like hitting singles," Carper said about the steps Congress is taking to restore the economy. "We need to hit a bunch of singles, create a more nurturing environment for job creation, set the stage for a home run. A home run is what we need to hit after the election." . . .