Joining Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in the ranks of Americans temporarily rooting against a strengthening American economy is Noam Scheiber. Scheiber, like Romney, has a message to sell, and it’s set out bluntly in the subtitle of his new book, The Escape Artists. President Obama’s team, he says, has “fumbled the recovery.” Yet with the Dow flirting with the 13,000 mark and the Labor Dept.’s report that U.S. employers added 243,000 jobs last month—not to mention Clint Eastwood’s optimistic, pro-Detroit paid pronouncement that “It’s halftime in America”—it has recently gotten harder to put over a narrative that Team Obama’s economic policies have failed.
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