You could read Kevin Drum, Matt Yglesias, or Ezra Klein's wonky debunkings of the "uncertainty" explanation for the poor economy.
Or you could just listen to the infinite wisdom of Todd Palin:
When she's stocking up on rhetorical ammo prior to a segment Fox's “The O'Reilly Factor,” Palin asks her husband whether uncertainty over taxes could impact the number of people he hires. He responds: "Business is about rollin' the dice." It is far and away his most profound contribution to the episode.
"Uncertainty" is another one of Republicans' self-refuting political memes, the daring, risky entrepreneurs who are somehow hamstrung by anxiety about the future. It's like tough guys who are scared of putting terrorists in supermax prisons, or gay soldiers who will turn the U.S. military into the Bravo channel while sexually assaulting their straight colleagues in the dark of night.
