Pat Hynes at TCSOur buddy from the Ankle-Biters
has a column at TCS on why the President doesn't get any respect on the economy despite ample evidence that it's chugging along quite well.
President Bush needs to learn a lesson his father never did. Unless a president -- especially a Republican president -- talks constantly with the American people about the economy, he will be seen by the public as doing nothing about it. This is especially true when the news is filtered through a hostile press corps. And while doing nothing about the economy may at times be the best way to strengthen it, this view is not shared by the majority of Americans.Pat's right on the money here. Yeah, we can rail about the media which never report the good news for fear it will help the Republicans. But guess what? That's not going to change, so it does us very little good to gripe about it. When the President has a chance to talk to the American people without the filter of the networks, he does terrifically.
