Needed To Be Said

Building on his bunches of interviews last night underlying his case for passing his economic stimulus plan, today President Obama went more assertively and directly at the GOP obstructionists who are now trying to win the public relations war and turn public opinion against the bill. Now personally I don't think President Obama should have been the one to go after them but since nobody else was stepping up to the plate I was glad to see him do it. In case people were beginning to forget that we have heard this song and dance before from the Republicans he gave them a refresher course.

Now, in the past few days, I’ve heard criticisms that this plan is somehow wanting, and these criticisms echo the very same failed economic theories that led us into this crisis in the first place, the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems, that we can ignore fundamental challenges like energy independence and the high cost of health care, that we can somehow deal with this in a piecemeal fashion and still expect our economy and our country to thrive.

I reject those theories. And so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change.

Now in recent days wingnut Republicans in Congress have taken great satisfaction in twisting President Obama's words to use his bipartisan outreach against him. I wonder how many of them will be clammoring to repeat these words though. I would bet not many. Hopefully now we can get some stronger representation from the usual Democratic suspects on cable news now that Obama has shown them how to frame the conversation. Hopefully next time it won't take him doing all that for them to get the picture though.