I'm glad to hear the President bringing the truth to the Republicans. When the President says it, people listen. Yesterday President Obama participated in a closed-door White House meeting with Democrat and Republican Congressional leaders:
One heated exchange came at the beginning of the meeting between the president and congressional leaders from both parties. Mr. Obama said the GOP was fixated on the unemployment rate as Congress enters a midterm-election season, saying Republicans "seem to be almost rooting against recovery," according to two aides briefed on the exchange.
Wall Street Journal
Damn right! The Republican brought this nation to its knees both economically and in the world, and they have done all they could to prevent any recovery.
At one point, the president told Republican leaders to "stop trying to frighten the American people," displaying a chart showing diminishing job losses over the past four quarters, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said after the meeting. That came after Rep. Dave Camp (R., Mich.) accused Mr. Obama of pushing a "job-killing agenda," according to aides briefed on the meeting.
Wall Street Journal
Bipartisanship cannot work when only one party is willing to compromise:
White House officials said Mr. Obama had hoped he could win some Republican backing for two of the pillars of his jobs bill, tax breaks and lending for small businesses and a new, $50 billion infusion of infrastructure spending.
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Instead, Republicans held firm to a strategy of challenging Mr. Obama's economic policies and blaming him for the $1.4 trillion deficit.
Wall Street Journal
This is good. We need the President to explain to the American people who caused the Great Recession, who is working to prevent job creation, and who is working for the wealthy instead of the nation: the Republican Party.
Well done, Mr. President.
Update I: From Jed Lewison in the comments:
FDR on his foes: "I Welcome Their Hatred"
Posted Feb 13, 2009, 12:12 PM PT by Jed Lewison • First broadcast: Oct 31, 1936
Excerpt from FDR 1936 campaign speech in Madison Square Garden. As relevant today as it was then.
In his own style, President Obama can do this.