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The President Says "Things Could Be Worse!"

Submitted by Marsha Blackburn on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 07:44

I was having a cup of coffee and reading through the local paper when I came across an article discussing remarks that President Obama recently made at one of his many campaign/fundraising stops. I almost couldn’t believe my eyes when I read that the President had told the audience “things could be worse.” It seems especially odd coming from the same man who 2 years ago ran for President with a campaign slogan of “change you can believe in.”

President Obama continues to blame our Republican Party for all economic woes facing our country. The problem with that argument is that the Democrats have now controlled the White House, the Senate and the House for nearly 2 years. They have rammed through every policy they’ve wanted and are now faced with dealing with the failure of those policies. Instead of owning up to their mistakes and working to repair the damage they have done, now the President is saying “it could be worse.”

Try telling that to the unemployed people struggling to provide for their families. 14.6 million Americans are out of work. To them things can’t get any worse. They recognize that the Obama Administration’s economic policies have failed. They know that billions of dollars have been spent with a guarantee that unemployment would not rise above 8 percent, and yet it sits at 9.5 percent and hasn’t moved significantly lower for many months.

People look at a federal government that has become so bloated that it is now involved in virtually every facet of our lives and wonder can it be worse? They look at record deficits and out of control spending and wonder can it be worse? They look at hundreds of thousands of small businesses closing their doors and wonder can it be worse?

No matter how the President and his advisors attempt to spin the economic crisis, the American people will hold him and his Party accountable in November.

Cross posted at Vote Marsha.com 

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Marsha, record deficits?

Submitted by Knackers on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 08:04.

Seriously. Iceland's deficit is 50 times its GDP. Look it up.

Ours is what, double our GDP?

Yes, ma'am, things could get a lot worse. It's ignorant to say otherwise.

For example, a tenth of our country could be on fire right now. Ring any bells? ;-)

As to the majority running roughshod over the Republicans:

Where's EFCA? Where's a Climate Bill? Where's a public option? Where's Don't ask don't tell repealed? Why isn't DOMA repealed?

400 bills sit in limbo right now, due in no small part to obstructionist republicans in the Senate. I can see how you, as a Representative, might believe that the majority is getting its way. The reality is that only 30% of the judicial nominees have been approved -- FAR less than is normal, even in these partisan times.

In the most remarkable

Submitted by classicliberal2 on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 17:06.

In the most remarkable display of contempt for the public imaginable, Republicans have filibustered nearly every major piece of Democratic-sponsored legislation since Obama assumed the presidency, most of it successfully. To date, 117 cloture motions have been filed in the Senate in this two-year congress--by the end of the year, Republicans will have likely forced a record for most cloture motions in the history of the U.S. They already hold the previous record. They set it in the previous congress, in fact, when they lost the majority. That congress saw 139 cloture motions. That didn't just set the record, but was more than double the average of the previous five congresses.

They've stopped nearly everything, and most of the little that has passed was so indistinguishable from outright Republican legislation that it wasn't worth passing.

Marsha "Amnesiac" Blackburn

Submitted by Democritus on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 09:49.

I love how Republicans talk about jobs and unemployment as if electing them is the solution to all our problems.  Hello, remember how we got here?

Gee, if only we would go back to the good old days of tax-cuts for the rich, crony capitalism, deregulation and trickle-down economics.  Geez Marsha, we haven't recovered from the last eight years of those failed conservative economic policies yet and you want to return to them already?

Republicans have opposed job creating/saving measures right from the first day of the Obama administration.  They would rather see Obama fail than see the country recover.  Recently the House and Senate passed a bill that will stop the layoffs of 300,000 teachers, firefighters, police and nurses which was universally opposed by Marsha Blackburn and the party of no.  Republicans called the bill "pandering to unions and special interests".  Riiiight.

Let's stop pretending Republican/Teabagger party wants anything other than power.