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You just jumped the shark. Do you know how many times people have told me that I jumped the shark? Can you imagine? Well first of all Dilbert is entering its 30th year. So for 30 years I've been drawing Dilbert and it's been one of the top comics in the world for most of that 30 years. Probably 25 of those years it was one of the top comics in the world. And for at least 25 years I get about one m…
← Previous segment →Let's talk about 3.7 unemployment as we enter the zone of the midterms. We're kind of now in the midterm zone meaning it's so close to the midterms that that's all we're thinking about. It gets harder and harder to say that the economy is all Obama's good work.
Now I'm one of the few people in the world who is willing to say Obama did a good job. Trump is also doing a good job. I think it's possible to hold both of those thoughts in your head when it comes to the economy. They did different things and I think different things had to be done at different times.
I think Obama was probably a good fit for this emergency situation because he was a calm voice and the economy was going off the edge and you didn't want any extra risk introduced into the system. So he was sort of a calm standard voice. But once things get moving along pretty well, which Obama did, he got things moving along pretty well along with just the economy has its own cycles. But I think that Trump's extra juice of cutting taxes, cutting regulations, being sort of the cheerleader in chief for American industries, negotiating tariffs and all that stuff, I do think that added the extra juice.
He was the one who put extra risk into a system that was ready for extra risk. So you don't want any extra risk in 2008 because the economy was on the precipice. It was ready to go off a cliff. But once you're strong you don't want that same calm voice. Obama would be exactly the wrong leader for 2018.
He might have been exactly the right leader for 2008-2009 but today you need more of a cheerleader. You need a marketer. You need somebody to put a little energy into it. You need some juice. You need some enthusiasm. You need some optimism. And these are all President Trump's bread and butter. This is the stuff he does.
So I think he gets credit for a strong and not just strong performance but innovative. When you say that President Trump's approach to the economy in terms of his cheerleading, optimism, cutting regulations, really his whole package of what he's doing it seems to me innovative because we haven't quite seen anybody who put together this package of economic ideas.
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Breaking U.S. Senate votes to advance the nomination. Is that the case? Let's see if CNN agrees with you random person. CNN says the vote is underway. Susan Collins is a yes for now but we'll announce her final decision later. I think it's smart for all the people who are undecided. Now Kavanaugh was not just confirmed. I believe the vote was for cloture. Remember I told you before that we've lea…
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