Senate Democrats to blast ‘tea party economics’

By SCOTT WONG & MANU RAJU | Politics

Senate Democrats will brand Republican opposition to President Barack Obama’s jobs plan as “tea party economics,” a top Democrat said Wednesday morning. Whether the White House will adopt the same strategy is unclear.

I talked to the president last Friday, and they are very busy looking at it very carefully,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters at a breakfast hosted by Third Way. “In the Senate, we are going to embark on it and hopefully the president will too.”

Though the bill failed in the Senate on a 50-49 vote Tuesday night, Democrats plan to press ahead with a piecemeal approach that will include a series of votes on elements of the American Jobs Act, Schumer said. The exact order is still being coordinated with the White House. Democrats will blame any Republican opposition to those measures on “tea party economics,” a “tea party double-dip recession” and “tea party gridlock” – a nod to recent polling that shows the grassroots movement is losing favor with the American public.

That will illustrate “the tea party has a stranglehold on the Republican Party,” said Schumer, who heads Senate Democrats’ messaging and policy operation.

But a top Senate GOP aide pointed out that Democrats control both the Senate and White House — and they have no one but themselves to blame.

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