Obama Could Use Some Clintonesque Salesmanship

Who says Democrats haven’t paid attention to the Tea Party message? Suddenly, even though the Obama administration says that the bailouts helped rescue the global economy from collapse, vulnerable incumbents of the President’s party claim that they voted against TARP. Factcheck warns that some of them weren’t even in Congress at the time to cast a vote on the actual bailout, and that the vote that most of them use to justify these claims came after Treasury already had all of the cash: At least five freshman Democratic House members are running ads claiming they voted against the bank “bailout,” when in fact none was in Congress when the bill setting up the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, was enacted. * Mary Jo...