Conspiracy Theories are Fun

So with that in mind, I'll offer one...here goes it...

Republicans have convinced Americans that they are the party of the economy which couldn't be further from the truth.  Classic Republican economic theory lays battered in the dirt and current Republican "ideas" for fixing the economy involve devastating spending cuts at a time when they would derail our recovery and increase joblessness.  Joblessness is a huge issue of course since the unemployed are both suffering and not paying taxes.

But what if I'm shorting the Republicans here?  What if their goal isn't to fix the economy at all?  What if they actually want to further derail the economy in order to win back the White House.  What if, in their heart of hearts (some of which seem Grinchesque), Republicans are looking at the economic situation and thinking, we know how to fix this, we know what needs to be done, but if we do it Obama will be reelected.  After all, I've said in previous posts that Republicans are good politicians even if their policy is usually underwhelming.  Maybe this whole cut spending disastrously is just a ploy to increase unemployment and get Mitt Romeny or some other bum elected next year.  Of course if Romeny were president the country would be much better off because we would be led by a man who would immediately undo for America what he successfully implemented in Massachusetts.  Way to pick a winner!

Anyhow conspiracy theories are just that, theories.  Unless of course they are real conspiracies!