Democrats… play the class-envy card

We have great economic news out here today, this is tremendous.

“Employers added about twice as many new employees last month than expected.”

It’s always a surprise when the economy does well. This is Reuters that happens to be reporting this.

“Factory orders edged up. The government reports on Friday implied the economy was strong enough to avoid a recession.”

Who’s talking about a recession? The Media is talking, the Democrats are talking, what recession?

Larry Kudlow is on with Robert B. Reich. They’re discussing the economic growth numbers that came out earlier this week, 3.9%, and the jobs numbers. Robert B. Reich said, “At least we can say that with these job numbers the recession is not starting now.” What is all this talk about a recession?

USA Today, by Susan Page:

A year before voting, a nation of discontent, divided by the war, anxious about the future, Americans want some fixes. “Call us the Unhappy States of America. One year before Election Day 2008, most Americans are dismayed by the country’s direction, pessimistic about the Iraq war and anxious about the economy. Two of three disapprove of the job President Bush is doing. Nearly a year after Democrats took control of Congress, three of four Americans say it isn’t achieving much, either. In all, 72% of those surveyed in a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Oct. 12-14 say they are dissatisfied with how things are going in the USA while just 26% are satisfied. Not since April have even one-third of Americans been happy with the country’s course, the longest national funk in 15 years.”

Fifteen years, 1992. Why, that just happens to coincide with the Clinton campaign, the worst economy in the last 15 years, isn’t this a coincidence?

“‘Don’t get me wrong, America’s a great country,’ says Lori Jones, 46, a medical assistant in Phoenix. But she worries about her family’s finances and prospects for the next generation. ‘I think we’ve somehow lost our way.’” They plucked her out of nowhere, she’s an American. “There’s plenty of time for attitudes to change before the election, of course, but the current landscape is the sort that in the past has prompted political upheaval and third-party candidacies. The last time the national mood was so gloomy was in 1992, when the first President Bush was ousted from the White House and H. Ross Perot received the highest percentage of the vote of any third-party candidate in 80 years. Bill Clinton was elected amid economic angst.“ This is a four-page story. I’ve only gotten through half of the first page.

Now, this is classic. This story and others like it for the past four years is exactly why some people have a pessimistic attitude about the economy, when the facts are the economy is roiling; it’s doing fabulous.

Forty-two percent of California’s voters say that the state is headed downward. “California voters are becoming increasingly pessimistic, with immigration issues topping their worries. … But now, burdened by a sputtering economy and doubts about the ability of elected officials to deal with mounting problems, voters’ outlook is split — 42 percent of them said the state is headed in the right direction, while 42 percent gave a negative view.”

Most of it is due to immigration, and whose issue is that? It’s a bunch of Democrats. Democrats have got the state of California in trouble. If only the Republicans had somebody who could connect the dots for voters in California.

But amidst all of this, all of this doom and gloom, Larry Kudlow had a great piece that ran in NRO:

“If things are so bad, why are they so good? With all the gloom coming out of Wall Street, the Democrats on the campaign trail, and the mainstream media, a remarkable thing just happened: Real gross domestic product, the best summary report of the American economy, came in at a breathtaking 3.9 percent annual rate for the third quarter. In fact, following the 3.8 percent growth rate for the second quarter, the U.S. economy has posted its strongest quarterly growth in four years. The economy actually appears to be speeding up, following the relatively sluggish performance of the prior 18 months. On top of this, the inflation rate is actually slowing down. The consumer spending deflator is reading 2.1 percent for the past year, compared to over 3 percent six quarters ago. The core inflation rate is down to 1.9 percent, below the Fed