Excerpt from PResidents remarks in Minnesota Saturday... finally some candor about the GOP.

[JohnWxy]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/10/23/remarks-president-a-rally-minneapolis-minnesota

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I'll give you a few statistics. Between 2001 and 2009, when Republicans were in charge, the middle class saw their incomes go down by 5 percent -- during that period. That's not according to me; that's according to the Wall Street Journal. Between that same period, we had the slowest, most sluggish job growth of any time since World War II. So this was a lost decade for middle-class families. Costs of everything from health care to getting a college education were skyrocketing. Jobs were disappearing overseas. Too many parents had to say to their kids, you know we might not be able to afford to send you to college. Too many families had to pass up going to the doctor when they got sick because they couldn't afford it. Too many Americans having two, three jobs and still not being able to make ends meet.

And then all of this culminated in the worst financial crisis and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. I want everybody to think back to when I was first sworn in. We had lost 4 million jobs in the six months before I took office. We lost 750,000 the month I took the oath; 600,000 the month after that; 600,000 more the month after that. We lost almost 8 million jobs, almost all of them lost before any of our economic policies could be put into place.

And when I arrived in Washington, my hope was that we could put politics aside for a moment to meet this once-in-a-generation challenge. My hope was we could stop the division and the bickering and the partisanship that had dominated Washington and that we could come together to solve problems -- because although we are proud Democrats, we are prouder to be Americans, Minnesota. (Applause.) And I believe there are a lot of Republicans out there that felt the same way.

But when we got to Washington, the Republican leaders in Congress -– they had a different idea. Their basic theory was they looked around and said, boy, we really made a big mess, we really screwed up. It’s going to take a long time to get those 8 million jobs back. People are going to be angry and frustrated. It’s better if we refuse to cooperate, we say no to everything, we try to gum up the works in Congress, and we may be able to deflect the blame come the next election. We'll just pretend like we had nothing to do it, and we'll point our fingers at the Democrats.

AUDIENCE: Boooo --

THE PRESIDENT: In other words, the other side was betting on amnesia. (Laughter.) They’re betting that you’ll forget who caused this mess in the first place.
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Well, finally he is speaking with candor about the GOP. I wish he had been talking with this frankness a year ago though.


THE Red (state) Guard is using the same tactic all absolutist groups use....destruction and mayhem as a means to gain power. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge burned crops in the fields (well, paddies, i guess) to create famine and mayhem to further their efforts to sieze power and set up their regime. The Red state Guard is doing the same thing voting against every stimulus bill (demanding much of the original stimulus bill be morphed into a tax cuts - which they knew would not be stimulative when people are afraid of losing their jobs), voting against every unemployment extension bill and even voting against the Small business aid bill - which was revenue neutral. Undermine any recovery Obama and Dems might be able to produce to gain seats in these midterm elections... no matter the human and economic costs to our country.

[Doctor_J]

1. Unfortunately, it's probably too little too late

after caving in for 2 years, this mild rebuke will not bring the Hopeful 60 million back to life. Props to him for throwing us a bone though