#LogicFail

Think Progress: Richard Mourdock, the insurgent Republican Senate candidate in Indiana who is locking in a primay contest against Sen. Richard Lugar (R), took a similar tack this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference, telling ThinkProgress that while Obama’s policies were responsible for making the economy worse early in his term, the recent improvement has occurred in spite of Obama’s policies:

KEYES: If the economy does continue to improve over the next few months, is that something you’d be willing to give President Obama credit for, or not?

MOURDOCK: The American economy is incredibly resilient because Americans are incredibly resilient. It won’t be because of President Obama when we see recovery, it will be in spite of President Obama. He wants to add more and more layers of government, more and more government sector unions. Those are killing our economy. And while it’s possible we might see some recovery, it would be doing a whole lot more if we were rolling back the size of government.

Putting aside the obvious silliness of blaming Obama when the economy wasn't doing so well (even though he inherited our worst economic crisis since the great depression) and then not crediting him when it's turning around, and the fact we were doing much better economically when the government was much bigger and there were far more unionized workers, if it's all just about the American people what the hell was wrong with them when the economy melted down at the end of the W/Cheney administration? Were they just being lazy? Just needed to pick it up a notch? Maybe it's Republican presidents that turn them into unproductive idiots? Because it's the same American people now that things are getting better.

Look, even if this latest bit of ridiculousness from the GOP were true, since the American people always seem to produce a nice economy when there are Democratic presidents, it's better for the country to have one.