No doubt about it, President Obama has had a tough week.

His emphasis now shifts to what Republicans once thought would end his presidency: the economy.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/300545-obama-shifts-focus-to-economy

Interesting how fortunes can turn and how bad news becomes good news, and how one can turn a perceived weakness into a perceived strength.

GOP critics had been yammering all through the 2012 election cycle about how the economy was dragging everything – and everyone – into the dumps. Joblessness was too high; new job creation was much too slow; that deficit was going to bankrupt the country; we were “outsourcing” jobs to places like China and India.

Then what? Unemployment has kept ticking downward. Job creation is starting to accelerate. The deficit is now “down” to something on the order of $600 billion.

Those “scandals” involving the IRS, Benghazi and the Associated Press phone records appear as of today to be contained. Obama now is turning his sights toward the economy to (1) divert people’s attention from the embarrassing missteps and (2) perhaps lift our spirits just a bit.

Didn’t the Republican opposition tell us the economy would be Barack Obama’s downfall? At this rate, it might be his salvation. Imagine that.