Secretary Evans Compares Kerry to Jimmy 'Malaise' Carter

Recall that Senate bloviator Teddy Kennedy got loads of media coverage for comparing President Bush to Richard Nixon. We guarantee this next little item will get far less press.

Commerce Secretary Don Evans today compared John Kerry to the presidential disaster Jimmy Carter.

Evans said Carter enacted a corporate tax credit nearly identical to the one Kerry proposed recently and contended it could harm industries and thus employment.

"The last time America experimented with the policies like the ones Senator Kerry advocates were in the 1970s, and most of us remember that those weren't the best of times," Evans told National Federation of Independent Businesses.

"When I hear Senator Kerry and the economic naysayers, the image that comes to mind is of President Carter sitting in the White House blaming the state of the economy on 'malaise.' What they fail to realize is that this is a growing economy in which we must foster job growth and opportunity, not close it off," Evans said.

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