Axelrod to Democrats: Assign due blame on Republicans

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Axelrod to Democrats: Blame the GOP
Posted: July 29th, 2010 06:26 PM ET

From CNN's Ted Barrett and Ed Henry

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... e-the-gop/

'We're not interested in re-litigating the past but we don't want to relive it either,' Senior White House adviser David Axelrod said after a meeting with Senate Democrats on Thursday.

Washington (CNN) – Senior White House adviser David Axelrod told Democratic senators behind closed doors on Thursday that if they want to win re-election they need to go on offense and stress to voters that it's Republicans who are to blame for the economic mess the country is in today.

"We're not interested in re-litigating the past but we don't want to relive it either," Axelrod said after the closed-door strategy session with Senate Democrats in the Capitol. "People need to know that when they cast that Republican vote they're casting that vote for those same discredited policies that punished the middle class and created this crisis in the first place."