Chairman Frank Donatelli on Fox News Channel's "Happening Now"

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

GOPAC Chairman Frank Donatelli appeared on Fox News Channel's "Happening Now" Wednesday, July 29th to discuss a new poll released Wednesday morning that finds at least half of all Americans, 49%, believe the country's debt best days are behind us.

Jane Skinner:
You look at those numbers and I want you to be specific in terms of strategy, how you would advise the White House to do with this electorate? How about these congressional members that are going to go home and hear about it?... I want to put up a quotation from a conservative writer. Has the white house miscalculated how we feel?

Frank Donatelli:
I think so. President Obama was elected to fix the economy, not to turn us into France. The fact of the matter is, his policy is making us worse, not better. When you pass a carbon tax, when you threatened to cancel a tax cut of the Bush administration and when you threaten a huge tax increase for so-called nothings that make the economy better, they make them worse. President Reagan and President Roosevelt faced a difficult economic circumstances where the public was disconsolate, but in each case that advocated growth policies and advocated strong rhetoric to build our spirits. Unfortunately, we have not heard that from President Obama.